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- Installation Notes Read Me - October 17, 2001
-
- PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY; it contains
- important installation information about Norton Internet
- Security and Norton Personal Firewall.
-
- Note that the release notes may refer to features that
- are not in the product you have installed, as it covers
- three products with different features.
-
- Additional notes may be found in the Start Menu /
- Programs / Norton Internet Security (or Norton Personal
- Firewall) / Product Support / Release Notes.
-
-
- Topics include:
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- - Operation with local area networks
- - Installation with the Microsoft Installer
- - Installing on removable drives, firewire drives,
- network drives
- - Installation on multi-boot systems
- - Installation on machines running server services
- - Passwords are case sensitive
- - Updating web site blocking list on older computers
- - Web Browser compatibility
- - Uninstalling Norton Internet Security
- - LiveAdvisor interaction with older Norton products
- - Upgrading Operating Systems after installing NIS
- - Clear your Browser Cache after installing
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- Operation with Local Area Networks
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- After installation, Norton Internet Security will block
- all file and print sharing on your computer. To
- configure NIS to selectively allow certain computers the
- access they require to use file sharing and other
- services, use the Internet Zone Control from the main
- interface or the Security Assistant that runs following
- install.
-
- You should also run the new Home Networking Wizard
- (accessible via the Security Assistant) to configure NIS
- to recognize your local network and treat your computers
- appropriately. This will increase the ease of use of
- NIS/NPF without compromising your security on the web.
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- Installation with the Microsoft Installer
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- The Microsoft Installer is a new component for Windows,
- and is required to install Norton Internet Security or
- Norton Personal Firewall. If your operating system does
- not already have this installed, it will automatically
- be added. The MSI installer requires about 25 megabytes
- of space temporarily to install, but will clean up after
- the install is complete. On Windows 98 Second Edition,
- and possibly other conditions, the MSI installer may
- need to reboot the system before Install continues.
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- Installation on removable drives, firewire drives, etc.
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- This product should not be installed on a removable
- drive, firewire (IEEE 1394) drive that may be
- disconnected, USB drive, network drive, hot swappable
- drive, or any form of storage which may not be
- accessible at all times.
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- Installation on multi-boot systems
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- Norton Internet Security and Personal Firewall can be
- used on systems that boot multiple operating systems on
- the same primary partition, such as having Windows 95
- and Windows NT both on the system. However, if you use
- a dual boot system, you must install the product into
- different directories on each operating system - do not
- attempt to use the same directory, or you may have
- conflicts.
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- Installation on machines running server services
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- Norton Internet Security and Personal Firewall are not
- supported on server versions of Windows NT or Windows
- 2000, but can be installed and operated.
-
- Please review the technical notes on configuring the
- product to support various server processes which need
- access to the Internet during the system boot up when
- firewall alerts cannot show. Please note that this can
- affect a Windows NT Workstation or Windows 2000
- Professional installation running IIS or other server-
- oriented services.
-
- The technical notes can be found in the Symantec
- knowledge base at the following URL:
-
- http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nip.nsf/
- docid/2000053008391436
-
- Norton Internet Security and Personal Firewall are not
- supported on XP Server or the 64 bit version of XP.
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- Passwords are case sensitive
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- With Norton Internet Security with parental controls
- installed, passwords for user accounts are case
- sensitive. The passwords abc$123, Abc$123, and ABC$123
- are each considered a different password. Make sure your
- passwords are consistent.
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- Updating web site blocking list on older computers
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- With Norton Internet Security with parental controls on
- older machines (usually with less than 48MB of RAM), the
- LiveUpdate process for updating the web site blocking
- list can take a very long time to update (sometimes
- multiple hours). If you have a limited amount of RAM,
- shut down as many running applications as you can before
- doing a LiveUpdate, and if you do find that it takes a
- very long time, do LiveUpdates when you will not be
- using your computer.
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- Web Browser Compatibility
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- Norton Internet Security and Norton Personal Firewall
- require Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.01 with IE
- service pack 1 to be installed to operate.
-
- Norton Internet Security and Norton Personal Firewall
- will function with Netscape 4.0 or above, Opera, and
- other web browsers, but do require IE 4.01sp1 to be
- installed.
-
- Please note that some versions of Internet Explorer have
- a version number of 4.72, but are actually version 4.01.
- If the Norton Internet Security install informs you that
- you need a newer version of Internet Explorer, please
- attempt to update your Internet Explorer before running
- the setup program again.
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- Uninstalling Norton Internet Security
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- Norton Internet Security hooks into the network setup of
- a computer, and has some complex actions that must be
- taken when uninstalling. It is not recommended that
- uninstall products (such as Norton CleanSweep) be used
- to remove Norton Internet Security, it should only be
- removed with its own uninstaller. This can be accessed
- from the Start Menu or from the Control Panel. Please
- note that a supervisor account must be loaded in Norton
- Internet Security before an uninstall can be done,
- except in the case of free trialware products which can
- be uninstalled by any user.
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- LiveAdvisor interaction with older Norton products
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- If you will have both this new Norton product installed
- and any 2000 version Norton product installed on your
- computer, the LiveAdvisor button on the menu bar of your
- 2000 version Norton product will be removed. As
- LiveAdvisor is no longer being used for information
- delivery, this is no loss in functionality to you. As
- was outlined in the final LiveAdvisor messages, Symantec
- has replaced the LiveAdvisor delivery mechanism with
- information on the Symantec web site (www.symantec.com)
- and product-specific newsletters (see the web page at
- http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/bulletin/index.html).
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- Upgrading Operating Systems after installing NIS
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- If you install Norton Internet Security or Norton
- Personal Firewall on a Windows 95, 98, or Me system and
- then upgrade to Windows XP, 2000 or another NT based
- operating system, the product may not function properly.
- To fix this, simply uninstall Norton Internet Security
- or Norton Personal Firewall and re-install it. This
- will fix issues such as disappearing accounts and errors
- on startup caused by the OS upgrade.
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- Clear your Browser Cache after installing
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- After installing Norton Internet Security or Norton
- Personal Firewall, it is recommended that you clear the
- cache in your web browser. Cached pages may contain
- content that the product would filter for your
- protection or preference, and they will not be filtered
- on cached content.
-
- Users of Internet Explorer 4.72 may find a script error
- problem after installing NIS/NPF, which should go away
- after clearing the cache.
-