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Norton Personal Firewall 2000 Version 2.0
by By Donald Rosenfield — NOCCC, cardar@home.com - October 07, 2000 at 00:23:30:
I was directed to this product by the article on pp 6-7 in the June 2000 issue of the Orange Bytes. I tried out the one-month demo before getting a copy of the full program. As soon as I saw its value, I alerted everybody I correspond with via e-mail. The program comes with a one-year subscription for updates after which further subscription is $6.95/year.“What does Norton’s Personal Firewall (NPF) do? Do you need it even if you have Norton’s Antivirus operating?” Yes, Alan, you do. NAV doesn’t protect your system from attacks by hackers. (For those using McAfee’s Antivirus product they offer a similar firewall.) This program gives you the peace of mind that comes with knowing that your credit card numbers and other personal information is safe from nefarious automated hacking systems.
NPF has a continually updated (which is why you need the above noted subscription) file of sites that unceasingly probe and test Internet users, looking for victims en masse. That applies whether you use a dial-up connection or whether you use a cable modem and thus are always on the Internet as am I.
“How do you know it is working, Donald?” In a 24-hour test it found and blocked several Trojan attacks on my computer, it blocked 28 security accesses while allowing 9751, and it blocked 969 privacy browser accesses, allowing 1882 of them. That is, the blocked accesses are those from known rogue sites.
I contacted my ISP about the Trojans. They checked them out and found that most of the attacks were coming from a fellow @Home user. Hmm. That took care of him/her. Another Trojan came from a differing address. @Home gave me the ISP address on that one.
Configuration is easy and can be changed as needed. You choose the level of protection and which sites can access your computer. You can control (or lose) your cookies as you please. :) Active content blocking stops Java(TM) applets and ActiveX(TM) controls from being downloaded on a site-by-site basis.
When you check out the URL: www.symantec.com, you should choose which of the suite of programs best suits your needs. As I already had NAV operating, I chose NPF. Norton’s Personal Firewall 2000, Version 2.0 is intended for use with Windows 95, 98, NT, and 2000 and sells for $49.95.
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