Zone Alarm / Norton Problem

Greenguy · 2004-05-28, 04:11 AM

I updated Zone Alarm yesterday & ever since I did, Norton, which used to just delete/quarentine things in the background is now telling me every time it finds a virus on my system, which is quite annoying since I get plastered with them in my email

I've tried everything I could think of to get the little alert window to not show up (which you have to click "OK" on for each fucking virus) Anyone know how to turn this off?

It's Zone Alarm 5.0.590.015 & Norton System Works 2004 Version 7

Attached is the annoying pop-up I now get

Surfn · 2004-05-28, 06:22 AM

I get the same thing 2-3 times a day from port sniffers. I would be interested in knowing how to turn it off also...

DavidM · 2004-05-28, 06:39 PM

I'll see if I can find anything about it and post if I can find a good fix. It is curious that this now occurs after installing zone alarm though, wheeras it did not before. Perhaps try turnign off the "Mailsafe" option. Maybe it is loading the messages first through the software firewall ( and norton is triggered when a virus is read into memory ?). Turn off mailsafe by right clicking on the zonealarm icon at the bottom right corner of the screen, then choose "Restore Zonealarm control center" and click on the taab that says something like "Email protection" and set this to off. Did this stop the problem from occuring as much. Not too big of a deal turning this off since Norton probably does a better job at this anyway.

Sbout the port scans, I am not too familiar with norton, but zonealarm has an alert function also in control center "Alerts and Logs" that you can set to off if you get these alerts from zonealarm (which are REALLY annoying).

Greenguy · 2004-05-28, 06:45 PM

I did have Zone Alarm installed, all I did was update it per it's request - LOL

I ended up turning off the inbound email protection on Norton, since Zone Alarm does it as well & since I run the Norton system scan thingy once a day, I should be ok.

DangerDave · 2004-05-28, 06:45 PM

Norton sucks!

DD

DavidM · 2004-05-28, 06:57 PM

[quote]Originally posted by Greenguy
I did have Zone Alarm installed, all I did was update it per it's request - LOL

I ended up turning off the inbound email protection on Norton, since Zone Alarm does it as well & since I run the Norton system scan thingy once a day, I should be ok. [/QUOTE

Software can be funny sometimes .... and annoying! hehe. I found this, looks like an old version, but there probably is simular setting:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...&output=gplain

Quote:

>>Configuration Information:
>> Version: 4.0
>> Operating system: Windows NT 4.0
>>------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>Hi, I have NAV set to automatically remove viruses when detected, but
>>each virus opens a dialog on the server informing whoever logs in
>>next the virus details.
>>
>>I would like to disable these notification dialogs completely, but
>>can not seem to find a way to remove them. I monitor the virus
>>activity via the event logs so dont want heaps of individual alerts,
>>especially if I havnt logged into the server for a while.
>>
>>thanks
>>
>>Steve
Stephen,

Thanks for using the Norton AntiVirus discussion group.

For version 2 try setting the immediate notification in the scanner
advanced settings dialog box. Then set the message display to 1 second
on the alerts tab.

Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.

Look for a scanner advanced settings option (something like this) and then see if they have that option or maybe something even better (like turning off pop up notfications entirely and just logging it). The one second would STILL drive me nuts though! Good luck.

LiveWorldWide · 2004-05-30, 12:28 AM

Open updated zonealarm

click antivirus monitoring
uncheck notify

does that help?

Jim · 2004-05-30, 08:28 AM

Check your Norton settings and make sure it still says to not notify you. If that doesn't work, I would reinstall norton. But, I know that is a pain in the ass.

Dravyk · 2004-06-08, 02:12 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Greenguy
I did have Zone Alarm installed, all I did was update it per it's request - LOL

I ended up turning off the inbound email protection on Norton, since Zone Alarm does it as well & since I run the Norton system scan thingy once a day, I should be ok.

hehe I was going to say the opposite: turn off Zone Alarm's email checking and let your anti-virus on. Works either way.

I got rid of Norton a year and a half ago. It screwed up my machine horribly. Went from a 15 year cheerleader of them to now I spit on them.

Been happy as hell with AVG for the last year and a half and no more of those Norton-XP-ZoneAlarm etc cross connection cluster-hells that in the end was proved to be all Norton's fault! Not to mention AVG caught only about 100 something viruses Norton never saw at the time too!

atlant · 2004-07-02, 10:32 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by DangerDave
Norton sucks!

DD

I agree. I have baaad experience with Norton products... especially with AV protection.

Now I prefer "small" players like:

Avast Antivirus (Czechs great product, fast and free) .... and of course NOD32.

Cleo · 2004-07-02, 10:53 AM

Buy a Mac

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2004-05-28, 06:22 AM	#2
Surfn If you don’t take a chance the Angels won’t dance Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Earth on occasion Posts: 8,812	I get the same thing 2-3 times a day from port sniffers. I would be interested in knowing how to turn it off also...

2004-05-28, 06:39 PM	#3
DavidM If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Florida Posts: 38	I'll see if I can find anything about it and post if I can find a good fix. It is curious that this now occurs after installing zone alarm though, wheeras it did not before. Perhaps try turnign off the "Mailsafe" option. Maybe it is loading the messages first through the software firewall ( and norton is triggered when a virus is read into memory ?). Turn off mailsafe by right clicking on the zonealarm icon at the bottom right corner of the screen, then choose "Restore Zonealarm control center" and click on the taab that says something like "Email protection" and set this to off. Did this stop the problem from occuring as much. Not too big of a deal turning this off since Norton probably does a better job at this anyway. Sbout the port scans, I am not too familiar with norton, but zonealarm has an alert function also in control center "Alerts and Logs" that you can set to off if you get these alerts from zonealarm (which are REALLY annoying).

2004-05-30, 12:28 AM	#7
LiveWorldWide Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know? Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: USA Posts: 17	Open updated zonealarm click antivirus monitoring uncheck notify does that help?

2004-05-30, 08:28 AM	#8
Jim Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Mohawk, New York Posts: 19,477	Check your Norton settings and make sure it still says to not notify you. If that doesn't work, I would reinstall norton. But, I know that is a pain in the ass.