Norton 2007 - Any ideas how to unblock programs?

Westyfield2 · 3 Feb 2007 at 13:02

On behalf of a friend (I would go round and fix it myself, but they live a good distance away so I'm trying to help them fix it themselves)

MSN (Live Messenger) is now not working (key ports blocked) and the change between it working and not working is the installation of Norton 2007.

From reading this review I've found that Norton allows you to manually unblock a specific port or program should it be mistakenly blocked by Norton.
Anyone know where abouts this is (in n00b terms, she's blonde!) and how to unblock MSN. I presume it'd be easier to unblock the whole program insted of finding the ports in needs.

Or is there a way for me to remote control their laptop through Skype?

TY
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Westyfield2 · 3 Feb 2007 at 13:43

Found this but it's for an old version of NIS.
Any ideas anyone.

</Remembers why he hates Norton!>

Westyfield2 · 3 Feb 2007 at 13:47

and here's a guide to doing it in NIS 2005.
Is it a similar process in NIS 2007? (I would just send them that link, but as she's blonde :rolleyes:

I want it to be as foolproof and guaranteed to work as possible)

Westyfield2 · 3 Feb 2007 at 17:21

Just thought I should add that the laptop in question is running XP (not Vista).

Westyfield2 · 3 Feb 2007 at 22:27

No-one got any ideas? (other than my "Why the **** did you install Norton!!")

Westyfield2 · 4 Feb 2007 at 13:19

Right, I'm not surprised that no-one knows Norton (coz it sucks :mad:

), so looks like fiddlilg / remote assistance....

OzyOly · 4 Feb 2007 at 13:38

I used to work at PCW in my spare time and we had to promote NIS and to the honest I couldn't do it any more. NIS is the worst peice of **** to be produced, it takes over the system and is near impossible for the average user to uninstall.

I use Mcafee because it is less intrusive and only costs £7 OEM. Mate just get rid of NIS and get MCafee fro £7 or better yet get some of the amazing free programmes that work even better out there.

Westyfield2 · 4 Feb 2007 at 14:17

OzyOly said:
I used to work at PCW in my spare time and we had to promote NIS and to the honest I couldn't do it any more. NIS is the worst peice of **** to be produced, it takes over the system and is near impossible for the average user to uninstall.

I use Mcafee because it is less intrusive and only costs £7 OEM. Mate just get rid of NIS and get MCafee fro £7 or better yet get some of the amazing free programmes that work even better out there.

That's what I've told her, but it's not her machine and the network admin dude put Norton on :mad:

OzyOly · 4 Feb 2007 at 14:23

Westyfield2 said:
That's what I've told her, but it's not her machine and the network admin dude put Norton on

That network admin dude need to to strangled with a blue ethernet cable.