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Elliot Davies

Elliot Davies

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Ive installed Nortons Personal firewall 2003 and cant seem to find out how to configure it to allow me full access to this forum without disabling the program, I am aware that there was a posting somewhere on this forum ?? Where did i see it or has someone got the answer for me.
 
Elliot
can you let me have more details - any error messages, strange behaviour etc
is this a new problem (have you used the forum OK before)? If so, what have you changed?
Finally: which OS, which browser etc
 
Elliot, The only way I have been able to do this, other than turning off privacy control is to use an old link to login with, ie don' t go in through the front page, but use your history pages in ie to open threads.
I can post with privacy disabled, but not using old links, I' m still trying to find a unique way to do this, Zonealarm BTW did not give me these problems.

Mike, I have setup the firewall to prompt me each time a cookie is placed, or accessed, but the website will still reject a posting with Norton' s firewall running.

Or as I have just discovered, disable the tick box, " enable browser privacy" will allow the login/posting


Kevin
 
Sounds like you' ve got cookie rejection set in the firewall as it uses standard http (port tcp/80) connections for the site itself. Go into the Firewall GUI, click on Privacy Control and then Configure. Now either change your setting to Medium or click on Custom Level and choose something other than High in Cookie Blocking.

Mike
 
Basically i cant log on to this site or post when nortons firewall is active, i get the error message about firewalls but doesnt it relate to 2003, when disabled all works fine, I dont really like the idea of comprimising net security and start playing with settings and decreasing it for this site only.
I think im just going to have to adjust various settings just to find the answer unless someone comes up with the answer first.
I have used it before with no firewall and with zonealarm okay, i have just tried various settings to no avail ???
Im using all the latest updates on XP..........
 
Elliot,

I have Norton 2003 and have no issues if I set the cookie function to ASK Permission, and set the privacy function to custom level, then untick the " enable Browser Privacy" , apparently the privacy function is for browser info, according the the Norton Help file.

Kevin
 
as someone already mentioned, the Forum uses standard HTML and port 80 so nothing that a firewall might dislike; except, if you have checked the box to have your login details stored as a cookie it might upset the firewall (so why not try it without that setting).
I agree that you should not jeopardise security in order to acess the Forum but I dont believe you will need to do so.
FYI - I use a hardware firewall with no problems...
 
Thanks Guys.........Im now up and running, Took a bit of Kevins advice and a bit of Jeffs and a bit of............
What did i do, I dont really know but its working now.
 
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