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- Norton Internet Security 2004 7.00 (NIS)
- Norton Personal Firewall 2004 7.00 (NPF)
-
- Installation Notes Read Me - August 22, 2003
-
- PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY; it contains
- important installation information about Norton
- Internet Security and Norton Personal Firewall.
-
- Note that the release notes cover two products
- with different features. Some of these notes may
- refer to features that are not in the product
- you have installed. Some of the following items
- refer to Norton Internet Security but also apply
- to Norton Personal Firewall.
-
- Topics include:
-
- - Restoring NIS 2003 or earlier versions after
- installing your NPF software service.
- - Resolving Internet connectivity problems
- - 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 computers running server services
- - Passwords are case sensitive
- - Web browser compatibility
- - Uninstalling Norton Internet Security or Norton
- Personal Firewall
- - Upgrading operating systems after installing Norton
- Internet Security
- - Clear your browser cache after installing
- - Important note for Active Directory users
- - Microsoft Outlook Express and private information
- - DBCS account names and Parental Control
- - AOL Instant Messenger confidential information
- blocking
- - Spam Alert and non-English operating systems
- - Microsoft DCOM 1.3 notes
- - Incorrectly classified mail as it relates to user
- training of Norton AntiSpam 2004
- - Network Detection differences between Windows XP
- and older systems
- - Problems using the product in low resolution
- - Imported settings overwrite previous configuration data
-
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- Restoring NIS 2003 or earlier versions after
- installing your NPF software service.
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- You must uninstall NPF 2004 before installing NIS
- versions 2003 or earlier. Failure to do so will
- result in an application lockup on launch. If you
- have attempted to install NIS version 2003 or earlier
- over the NPF software service and are currently
- experiencing application lockup, perform the
- following steps to restore you retail version of NIS:
-
- 1) Uninstall the older firewall.
- 2) Uninstall the newer firewall.
- 3) Reinstall the older firewall.
- 4) NIS should now be running.
-
- See your owners manual for uninstall instructions.
-
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- Resolving Internet connectivity problems
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- Some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) scan subscribers'
- computers to see if they are running Web or FTP
- servers. This may trigger the AutoBlock feature and
- prevent you from accessing the Internet.
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- Operation with local area networks
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- After installation, Norton Internet Security blocks all
- file and print sharing on your computer. Use the Home
- Networking feature to specify the computers that can
- access your computer for file sharing and other
- services. This lets you safely permit access to trusted
- computers without compromising your protection.
-
- To change your Home Networking settings
- 1. Double-click Personal Firewall.
- 2. Click the Home Networking tab.
- 3. Click Add.
- 4. Follow the on-screen directions.
-
- You can also use the Home Networking Wizard to
- quickly configure Norton Internet Security for your
- network.
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- Installation with the Microsoft Installer
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- The Microsoft Installer (MSI), a new component for
- Windows, is required to install Norton Internet
- Security. If MSI is not already installed on your
- computer, the Norton Internet Security installer
- automatically installs it.
-
- The MSI installer requires about 25 megabytes of free
- disk space during installation. This space is only used
- temporarily and will be available after installation.
-
- On Windows 98 Second Edition and in some other
- situations, the MSI installer may need to reboot your
- computer before Norton Internet Security can be
- installed.
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- Installation on removable drives, FireWire drives, etc.
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- This product should not be installed on any type of
- storage media that may be inaccessible at times. This
- includes network drives, removable drives, hot-swappable
- drives, and USB and FireWire (IEEE 1394) drives that may
- be disconnected.
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- Installation on multi-boot computers
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- Norton Internet Security can be used on computers that
- have more than one operating system (such as Windows 98
- and Windows 2000) installed on the same primary
- partition. If you have more than one operating system
- installed, you must install Norton Internet Security
- into separate directories for each operating system.
- Attempting to use a single installation of Norton
- Internet Security may cause conflicts.
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- Installation on computers running server services
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- Symantec does not support running any version of
- Norton Internet Security or Norton Personal Firewall on
- any edition of Windows 2000, Windows XP, or 2003
- servers. If you choose to install Norton Internet
- Security on a server, no technical support beyond the
- Symantec Knowledge Base will be provided.
-
- Windows servers need to perform certain Internet
- services during startup that Norton Internet Security
- normally blocks. This can affect computers running
- IIS or other servers on Windows 2000/XP Professional.
-
- Symantec provides technical notes that explain how to
- configure Norton Internet Security to allow server
- processes that need access to the Internet during
- startup. The technical notes are available from the
- Symantec Knowledge Base at:
-
- http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nip.nsf/docid/2000053008391436
-
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- Passwords are case sensitive
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- The passwords used to protect Norton Internet Security
- options and any Parental Control accounts you have
- created are case sensitive. The passwords abc$123,
- Abc$123, and ABC$123 are each considered to be different
- passwords.
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- Web browser compatibility
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- To install Norton Internet Security, you must have
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP2 or higher installed on
- your computer. Symantec recommends using Microsoft
- Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher.
-
- If the Norton Internet Security installation program
- informs you that you need a newer version of Internet
- Explorer, please update your copy of Internet Explorer
- before running the installer again.
-
- This requirement is only for the installation process;
- Norton Internet Security is compatible with older
- versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape 4.0 and above,
- Mozilla, Opera, and other browsers.
-
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- Uninstalling Norton Internet Security or Norton Personal
- Firewall
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- If you need to uninstall Norton Internet Security, do
- not use uninstall products like Norton CleanSweep.
- Norton Internet Security includes an uninstaller that
- is specifically designed to correctly uninstall Norton
- Internet Security.
-
- To access the uninstaller, use Start / Settings Control
- Panel / Add/Remove Programs.
-
- If you have installed the Accounts and Parental Control
- features, you must be using a Supervisor account to
- uninstall Norton Internet Security.
-
- Note: If you are uninstalling the product with the
- intention of installing an older version, you should
- uninstall all Symantec programs first.
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- Upgrading operating systems after installing Norton
- Internet Security
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- If you upgrade your operating system after Norton Internet
- Security is installed, you may encounter problems. Some
- indications of problems include startup errors and
- problems with NIS accounts.
-
- To fix the problem, uninstall and then reinstall Norton
- Internet Security.
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- Clear your browser cache after installing
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- Norton Internet Security does not filter information in
- your browser's cache. You should clear your browser cache
- after installing Norton Internet Security. If you do not
- clear the cache, your browser may load information that
- you have chosen to block from your cache.
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- Important note for Active Directory users
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- Some Internet attackers use improperly fragmented
- packets to crash victims' computers. Norton Internet
- Security protects you from these attacks by filtering
- out fragmented packets that appear to be part of an
- attack. You can also choose to block all fragmented
- packets, but this may interfere with Microsoft's Active
- Directory, which uses fragmented packets to
- communicate with client computers during startup.
-
- If you install Norton Internet Security on a computer
- that authenticates using Active Directory, do not
- change the Fragmented IP Packet Handling setting in
- the Firewall tab of the Norton Internet Security
- options.
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- Microsoft Outlook Express and private information
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-
- If you use Microsoft Outlook Express for email, you may
- receive two alerts when you attempt to send an email
- that contains private information in the body of the
- message. This is because Outlook Express is set by
- default to send both a plain text and an HTML version
- of each email. If you choose to block either version,
- the email will not be sent.
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- MBCS account names and Parental Control
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-
- If you use an English or other SBCS (Single-Byte
- Character System) operating system and have installed
- support for MBCS (Multi-Byte Character System)
- languages such as Japanese or Korean, you must use
- only SBCS characters in your Norton Internet Security
- account names. Do not attempt to create an account
- using international characters like those found in MBCS
- languages.
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- AOL Instant Messenger and private information
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-
- If AOL Instant Messenger is configured to use ports
- other than the factory defaults, Privacy Control will
- not be able to block private information in instant
- messages. To protect instant messages when using non-
- standard ports, add the non-standard ports to the
- Personal Firewall's filter list.
-
- To add ports to the filter list
- 1. Click Options.
- 2. Click the Firewall tab.
- 3. Under HTTP Ports, click Add.
- 4. Type a port number and click Add.
- 5. Repeat for all the non-standard ports you are using.
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- Spam Alert and non-English operating systems
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-
- Spam Alert feature currently supports English-language
- email only. If you receive both English and non-English
- email messages, please note that Spam Alert may
- identify non-English email messages as spam.
- Periodically review incoming email messages to ensure
- that Spam Alert is not identifying valid email messages
- as spam.
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- Microsoft DCOM 1.3 notes
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-
- Updated Windows 98 system components: The installation
- of this product verified whether your copy of Windows 98
- had upgraded components from the package that Microsoft
- makes available as DCOM 98, version 1.3. If your copy
- of Windows 98 had not been updated with DCOM 98 1.3, our
- installation routine installed DCOM 98 1.3. For further
- information see http://www.symantec.com/techsupp/
-
- Symantec agrees to reasonably cooperate with Microsoft
- in making support information requested by Microsoft be
- made available to users at the support location in
- SymantecÆs site.
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- Incorrectly classified mail as it relates to user
- training of Norton AntiSpam 2004
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-
- Symantec has provided a spam definition file that will
- classify spam and non-spam that is in English. For other
- languages, you may ôtrainö the product using
- the mail that they send and receive. Training works to
- improve results in English and other languages that
- use Latin based character sets (e.g. French and German).
-
- For non-English languages, you must train the product
- to learn the difference between spam and non-spam.
- After it is first installed, it has very little data
- that it can use to define the difference between spam
- and non-spam on non-English languages. During this
- period, you may find a noticeable percentage of
- non-spam classified as spam and spam that is not
- properly classified as spam. áWith a little time, it
- will learn the difference between the two and your
- results will improve.
-
- The product will prompt you during install to import
- your address book into the Allowed List. This will help
- it properly categorize spam and non-spam. We highly
- recommend that you do this.
-
- Please consult the manual for more information about
- "training" the spam filter and for instructions on how
- to import address books into the allowed list.
-
- Note: Training does not work for Altaic (e.g. Japanese
- and Korean) and Sino-Tibetan (e.g. Chinese and
- Taiwanese) languages.
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- Network Detection differences between Windows XP and
- older systems
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- Network Detection lets you configure security settings
- when you connect to a new network. If you are using
- Windows XP, the Network Detection alert will specify
- the connection is physical or wireless. If you are
- using Windows 98, Windows Me, or Windows 2000, this
- information may not be presented.
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- Problems using the product in low resolution
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-
- This product is designed to be used on systems with
- screen resolutions of 800 x 600 or greater. If you wish
- to use it on a low resolution (640 x 480 or lower)
- system, you may encounter problems accessing some
- buttons.
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- Imported settings overwrite previous configuration data
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-
- If you choose to import settings from a previous version
- of the product, they will overwrite any configuration
- changes you made in the Configuration Wizard. For
- example, if you created user accounts or added private
- information in the wizard following install, they will
- be replaced with those from the previous version.