Is Norton Internet Security Firewall Blocking Programs Net Access?
July 23rd, 2005Is Norton Internet Security blocking internet access to your computer programs? My friends computer has Firefox that was not able to open any site, while Internet explorer worked. It seemed somehow firefox was being blocked internet access. Read on…
This is what I figured out and may be helpful to you if some of your programs are not working on the internet. His computer was a new powerful Pentium 4 with all high end specifications. And he had preinstalled Norton Internet Security 2005 and Norton Antivirus 2005.
Norton Internet Security 2005 has an effective firewall. This is in addition to the Windows firewall. Firewalls monitors and restricts information that travels between your computer and a network or the Internet and provides a line of defense against someone who might try to access your computer from outside the Firewall without your permission. In this case the windows firewall was disabled and Norton Firewall was activated and the main one.
When some program from your computer tries to connect to the internet, Norton Internet Security gives a prompt, which has options to allow or block the access. Many times the recommended option is to block the access. So be careful to see what you are blocking internet access before clicking OK.
Click the Norton Security icon at the bottom right corner in your system tray. On the pop up window, first check if you have not clicked “Block Traffic” button. As this will block all internet access.
If that is ok, maybe the program has been blocked access and has to be unblocked manually. But it was not easy to find where was the blocked list. But here is it location. Go to Norton Internet Security > System and Settings and this is what you see in the image below.
Then you see that the Personal firewall is turned on to protect from unauthorized access to spyware, adware and other unwanted software. Click “Configure” button.
Go to Programs and scroll down the list for Manual Program Control. There you will see the individual internet access settings for each individual program. And you see that Mozilla Firefox setting shows “Block All”.
From the drop down list select “Permit All” and now open Firefox. It works! And he is back to using firefox as his default browser again. (Not to mention the pizza as a reward!)
Now you can scroll through the entire list and individually set the programs to allow and block internet access. Now you may fix some programs not working with the internet which you might have blocked by mistake. You can also set some allowed programs to block. I hope this tip helps. Now figure out the Custom option yourself!
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Thanks for your help. Brilliant.
My FireFox became unable to go on line after an update from MS website. After this, all of my protections of anti-virus progs and ZA firewall were unable to update. Norton AV 2005, SpySweeper, and FixIt did not detect any problem even in safe mode, and currently all are not updated. ZA’s trueVictore is not working. I uninstalled and reinstalled all of them, but nothing worked. I restarted the pc with the emergency CD that came with the computer and revived it to its original factory state. The problem continued with no change. Moreover, I cannot download anything neither an update from MS, or download from CNet. I was able to download some tools from major geek and some European sites. Running these tools, I found “TR/Rebootpc.B” in about six files. After deleting them, the problem I described is still there. I have communicated with all companies, but no one has the answer. Is there someone to help with an idea?
Thanks,
Al Michael
fonzaman@hotmail.com
Thanks a lot. exactly what I was searching for !!!!!
AWESOME!!! This thing may have just helped me get laid! Tech support rules….
This didn’t work for me. I changed all the settings as described. Still Firefox was blocked. What did work was changing the security level of the firewall from medium to low. Then Firefox could access the Internet. What I want to know is why does IE an Opera work with the standard default settings. Only Firefox has a problem.
Thank you. This solved my problem
Thank you so much for your help. I work for a local ISP and was working with a customer who couldn’t get his Yahoo to work. Was his norton firewall. The instructions here were perfect. Thanks so much :)
asr: Thanks for your post. your solution solved my similar firefox blocking problem. Thanks for detailed screen shots. you Rock :-)
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR POST! I was so frustrated that i’d accidentally blocked my feedreader program and you helped me get it unblocked. very much appreciated.
derek
kona, hawaii
Thank you so much!! I was going crazy trying to figure out how to change the security level for Itunes.
Thank you sooo much. Great Job. I needed this a lot. YOU =
how can i unblock ” myspace” from the schools computer?
Thanks. This tip did the trick. FF back up & running
I think my problem occurred as a result of eye-hand (or brain-hand) coordination with an annoying pop-up’s “recommended action” to block access and an OK of “always block”.
Lesson learned.
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Thanks =)
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