Dear Lanky

I too use NIS2005 and I have found that the firewall (NPF2005) part is pretty difficult to get to grips with, compared to the one I used before, i.e. NPF2003.

When browsing my favourite websites, internet banking or shopping I find that I have to temporarily disable the firewall before I can get onto the site, I did not have to do this with NPF2003. And I believe the “block and allow” settings do not always work consistently, they seem to be dependant on Symantec’s update policy of the day.

Suffice to say, if you are experiencing the same sort of problems I am it is quite possible that you could have temporarily turned of your firewall and got hit when it was down .

However, saying all that, it is also possible that one of your “settings” wasn’t set high enough for NPF2005 to block this script that caught you. From checking my system last night, I recall that my NIS2005 is set to block all scripts, all Java scripts and all Active X from running so I don’t get your pop-up questions. But I do get other pop-ups which are driving me “nuts”, trying to find solutions for them is also making me go bald .

Using NIS2005 is much harder than it should be and, I believe, because of this it is easier to leave NPF2005 off than on (or turn down the security settings until they virtually have no effect), so making your PC vulnerable to attack.




UK Bob

PS. Don’t forget, you should also use PeerGuardian when using LW, it protects your PC from nasties crawling into your system via port 6346.