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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The Myspace problem is pointless. Schools are starting to ban proxies and such as well. If we want to use myspace and messengers, we need to start figuring out new ways to get past firewalls.
Stop begging people to find it for you and learn how to hack on your own.
Great – saved me a lot of time and hassle!
I wish i could use myspace at school so school can be more exciting
how do i get past symantec i dont care about myspace i need games what do i do
You beauty! Thanks a bunch for this – I thought I’d knackered my computer but then I found your site.
Cheers!
All the proxies that you get when you search for them is blocked, or dont allow you to log into myspace.
Is there any other way to get past the schools blocking system?
yeah!!!!
Thanksssss alot!!!!!
was not able to access “www.google.com” from desktop which is installed with “Norton Internet Security” – have no problem accessing other sites. Any idea what to look out in the Norton Internet Security Setting? Thanks
Excellent step-by-step explanation of how to unblock accesses that have been blocked by mistake in Norton Internet Security
thanx for this. saved me asking how to do the unblock thing, only to be told to “google for it, dammit”.
great stuff :)
how can I unblock the whole internet surf control at my school??? cuz my school have wireless and I can’t navigate thru the internet with my own laptop (not even my email) the wireless servise at my school its only for educational searching…
thankyou soooo much for the help. your a lifesaver
i need help to get to myspace
Thanks…that hit the spot…
i cant get onto anything in school, can you please help me get on bebo, and msn, i have tried finding things to unblock it but i cant seem to do it. please help me :(
please unblock myspace from my school
I havent been able to get on my myspace for 6 months and i havent been able to talk to my friends. can you please tell me how to unblock myspace.com from my school computer?!? please!!!!
why can we not get on myspace at school its not like we’re lookin at something else i mean it does not have any nudity or anything so whats the problem its retarded to block it from us kids…and sometimes we can learn a thing or two things on there
why don’t you just steal teachers log on? it’s so easy!
look for a hacking program or make your own
can you unblock bebo from the schools computers please???
how can i get on bebo at school reply asap please
i need myspace…i looked it up on google, but it takes foreva to find one that works…someone give me a proxy that will for sure work!
Wow…..exactly what i was looking for!! thanks a ton.
my programs are block and i dont know what to do
please help me get on myspace at my school computer
i cannot play yahoo chess since i have payed for norton what to do
i still need to find out how to unblock myself from my friends computer help me please!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jennifer if u want to get on myspace all u got to do is use proxy websites u can look for them on the internet.
it was so funny one time i was caught lokkin for proxy websites and i made a lie up and said i was doin a project on y school’s block fun and educational websites. lol good times good times.
i really like runescape ok but when i went to my sisters school i tryied to get on but the dam computer wouldn’t let me and she said i could go on it please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!