I think you are 100% correct (adding a rule to firewall is of course completely different )

Good jobs that Sins doesn't make you do that  

Better safe than sorry. I keep Norton Antivirus running all the time, and I can count on one hand the number of problems I've had with my computers over the past half dozen years. Most were old hardware failing, to boot.

Indeed, if you're using Norton, you've got bigger worries than hackers and viruses.

No, a 'good' program is 'tamed quite nicely' when you install it.

If you have to 'mess with the settings a bit' just to get it tame, then it's doodoo caca.

All I know is, I dealt with the programming abortion that is Norton for far too long before I wised up and wiped that incessant, useless and ineffectual program off my system.

I still remember the first time I did a scan (after having used Norton forever, and scanned for viruses at least twice a week) with a competent anti-virus program - it found a mountain of viruses that Norton either missed or was too busy playing pocket-pool with.

Plus, the new anti-virus program I run is much less of a resource hog.

Anyway, this is just my long winded way of saying:



QFT.

Quite Funny Though???

The most effective anti-virus program i know of is the F-Secure. However it's such a resource hog that running it has effectively made some older machines unusable. My old laptop came pre-installed with Norton, and it didn't give me headaches, However, i moved to freeware solutions, that have worked perfectly so far.

Norton had like a gazillion processes and was constantly using like 60mb of ram altogether. Since I switched to AVG, it only has a few processes and uses a fraction the amount of resources that Norton did. Not only that, but I got 2 licenses for 2 years for the same price as a 1 year, 1 license from Norton.

The 60's?

Where was Norton in the 60's?
???

Where was the PC?

And, how did you abuse it in that time period?

amen Bebi.  

And yes,I agree,a proggy should never ask me to disable either antivirus or firewall.(course,I cant think of a single time I've had to)  

He was referring to his brain, you know, where you "save" what you have read in a post.

My HP came with Norton and it was the hardest thing to clean out.Damn parasite!It was also a resource HOG!I used AVG for awhile,now Avast,with Windows Defender.The only adware I ever had was from a toolbar I installed.I cleaned that out with Spybot S&D.

I have never disabled anything while installing other software,including Impulse.I don't believe I have ever even changed firewall settings,except to allow winamp.

If anyone is 'brave' enough .. although 'brave' may not be the best descriptive term ... try running your PC without an Anti-virus, Firewall or Anti-Spyware app running and see how long it takes for a nasty to latch onto your box.

Bad form (not to mention bad idea) for any program to require you to shut down your malware protection just to install it.

At the very least, you should disconnect your machine from the Internet if the app to be installed requires turning these programs off ... although if the app to be installed requires Internet access, you're damned if you do; damned if you don't.   

Mass Effect (Got it as a gift) actually refused to run with antivirus at all. Saw an email by the SecuRom people that said that the antivirus software could uncover their methods. So it's intentionally not allowing me to even play the game with antivirus also running.


Then run antivirus/spyware and see what you find. Even the most careful browsing can get you malware.