Symantec Firewall Blocking Practally Everything, Why?

Windows XP Home (SP1) Symantec Client Firewall Version 8.6.2.133 (came with anti-virus

10.0.2.2000) Security is On Client Firewall is On Intrusion Protection is Off Privacy Control is Off Ad Blocking is Off

The machine was functioning fine using ZA firewall, Microsoft Windows Defender (Beta) anti-spyware, and AVG anti-virus (all free versions).

But I get tired of the same old programs running year on end; maybe I'm missing out on something. Actually, I haven't been running MS Defender for long, but you get the idea.

After reading the spyware shootout:

the Slashdot response: liked the idea of anti-spyware and anti-virus combined. Why scan your computer twice? Symantec combines them and also did the best in detection in the competition. The Symantec package comes with a firewall (SCF) too. So I figured I might as well run that and give ZA a break.

I blocked my old programs from starting up at start-up but I still have them. And of course I could revert, but I want to figure out what's going on with Symantec Client Firewall.

Everything worked for a day or so. Then I awoke to find SCF blocking browser web traffic for practically all sites. I by chance discovered I could get to

(In FireFox, Reload (override cache) Ctrl + F5 gets the page, so I'm not getting it from the cache) I don't know what makes that one different. (Maybe it's the https? I'm going to research that, but I want to post this first.) Email and news work okay too. I can ping any site via the CMD prompt without trouble too.

When I disable the SCF, I can connect normally with browsers. That's how I'm operating now except I have XP's ICF going.

So how can I figure out what's wrong with SCF? They don't have a forum as I can see (is there one?). At least ZA has a good forum. A question never goes unanswered there.

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Posted 5 years ago by Nehmo in Networking Firewalls

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