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Norton product patch for MS Security Center

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Grand Master

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Well I've managed to snag the WMI patch from my own PC when LiveUpdate was updating to make NAV & NIS work with the MS Security Center.

Since Symantec won't release an individual XP SP2 patch on their site to support their consumer products (they might - but who knows? :unsure:), this is your best bet to getting the WMI patch without waiting for LiveUpdate to get it for you (for the impatient n00bs :crazy:) :yes:. But also for people who might want to keep a copy since it's very small and update without using the net.

This currently works for 2004 products, though it may work on earlier versions as well - try it at your own risk though ( I'm in no way responsible if anything negative happens to your PC :ninja:).

I'm gonna upload it to my Neowin webspace first then provide a link here :)

If the patch doesn't work, tell me and I'll close the thread as it was pointless :cool:

LINK - Norton WMI Update

Run the .MSI, since that's the only thing that works in the folder :laugh:

Radish?

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doesn't work for me. I am running NAV 2004 and when i try and run the MSI I get a box that comes up : A product that requires Norton WMI update is already installed on this system.

You press OK and thats it.

Liveupdate says that I am all uptodate however I still don't have sp2 recognising that I have NAV installed yet.

Any ideas?

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I can't even get norton 2004 INSTALLED on my machine!? Has anyone had this problem? I am not sure how one goes about making norton actually install itself on the new windows after formating the computer? Do I actually have to try to modify something on the CD even after a patch comes out?

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yep works NAV2002 recognised, however "NIS2002 is installed, but its status is unknown. Windows does not detect all firewalls.

Good to know on the NAV, and I think I'd try using the MS firewall. It makes it easy to handle local networking while still providing inbound and outbound protection. (Y)

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Nope it does not. The warning that pop's up for an individual program is when an outside computer tries to connect to you, not vice-versa, so it's still only inbound protection.

That is horrible! I could have sworn I read that it was supposed to do both inbound and outbound! Did anyone else read that?

Thanks for correcting me, by the way. I genuinely thought it was printed that it would have both incoming and outbound blocking, similar to Zone Alarm. Oh man...

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Yes, it does do outbound.

Did some checking - PC World says the final does not.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117380,00.asp

Most commercial firewalls include a feature to stop all but authorized applications from sending data to the Internet; this stops malicious code from sending unauthorized communications, and also prevents PCs from being hijacked and used to send spam or participate in distributed denial-of-service attacks. Windows Firewall, however, filters only incoming traffic, allowing any application to send outbound packets, a fact which some industry observers have said makes it less useful for serious protection.

"It still isn't as robust as many third-party host-based firewalls," writes Jeff Fellinge, information security officer at media company aQuantive, in a recent analysis of the firewall.

I'm really confused. ???

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