Desktop

Ask something
Discussion Locked

Norton Products

0 helpful
1 reply

by chrisms 1 view

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

This may sound like a very simple question and the answer may well be obvious, but what is the difference between 'Internet security' and 'Personal Firewall'. As i understand it there is no difference, apart from Internet security allows you to block access to sites, as well as blocking unauthorised incoming comms, whereas a firewall wil just block incoming comms.
Am I right?
:-} Thanks for your help in advance

1 reply

by laura8348

If you have a good firewall, it will block outgoing, as well as incoming. I recommend ZoneAlarm, from zonelabs. They have a very good freeware firewall, which can be downloaded from their site, or quite a few others, such as zdnet. I used it for quite a while, and recently upgraded to ZoneAlarm Pro version [not freeware]. If you want to check the "security" of your pc, go to grc.com, and check out their free scans; I think the results will amaze you.
You can adjust your "internet security" thru IE options, via Zones [should be under "Tools" tab on browser], or update to the latest version, or at least 5.5 ...which allows you to control internet sites a lot more by the strength at which you set the zones.

This discussion is closed to new replies.