Symantec Norton Personal Firewall For Mac
Symantec does not support Norton SystemWorks or Utilities on Tiger, and they never will. From their site: Currently, the following products are compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (code named Tiger):Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 10.0Norton Personal Firewall for Macintosh 3.0.3Norton SystemWorks and Norton Utilities will not be updated for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4.If you thought that running the regular uninstaller for your Norton program would actually uninstall everything, then you thought wrong. I thought that I had uninstalled all of the SystemWorks 3.0 components, but it turns out that the uninstaller didn't take everything away. Not only that, but when I updated from 2.0 to 3.0 (a while back), some old and obsolete files that were installed by 2.0 were just left in place. There are files left behind all over your hard drive.
Symantec Norton Personal Firewall for the Macintosh Posted on June 2, 2001 Norton Personal Firewall is a excellent solution for stopping hackers from gaining unauthorized access to your computer. Symantec does not support Norton SystemWorks or Utilities on Tiger, and they never will. From their site: Currently, the following products are compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (code named Tiger): Norton AntiVirus for Macintosh 10.0 Norton Personal Firewall for Macintosh 3.0.3 Norton SystemWorks and Norton Utilities will not be updated for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.4. In the notification area on the taskbar, right-click the Norton icon, and then click Disable Smart Firewall or Enable Smart Firewall. If prompted, select the duration until when you want the Firewall feature to be turned off, and click OK.
Including (Symantec) KEXT files in your /System/Library/ folder. A KEXT file is a kernel extension, something that operates at the lowest level of the OS (and bugs in such code can reduce system stability). Do you want reduced stability from a program that you thought you had uninstalled? Very messy; not very nice.
Thankfully, Symantec does supply a much more thorough uninstaller. Go to the for Norton SystemWorks, and then use the search phrase NortonUninstall removal utility. Make sure to please read the warnings in the linked page before using the provided program - this program will uninstall all Symantec stuff, both retail and beta. I am responsible for this hint. I must not have been logged in at the time of submission. The Norton Utilities were great through Mac OS 9 for all of the computers I administered.
I used them on dozens of computers and they kept the computers working with no downtime. Now Norton Utilities is discontinued, and Mac OS X appears to be much more responsible regarding its filesystem. I guess if I need a suite to replace what Norton Utilities did, I think I would look into Drive Genius: Drive Genius just got a very favorable review and recommendation over on macfixit: And no, Disk Warrior does not do everything that Norton Utilities did. It may be the best at what it does (directory repair and optimization), but it is still a one-trick pony, and not an Utilities suite.
I too am unable to download the file. Is there an alternate URL? Or - to second the request - please can you post the file? My problems are: Ever since I updated to 10.3.9 I get upon startup following error messages: Unable to load Norton Privacy Control extension Norton Personal Firewall error (Kernel extension not launched) Norton AntiVirus Error.
Symantec Endpoint Protection Firewall Exception
Updating to 10.4.2 changed nothing here. At this stage I would simply like to uninstall, but the uninstaller provided by Norton with the software returns an error and does not do anything. Thanks for any help or information. Richard. I tried Virex as an alternative, but it too has system extensions, automated schedulers, and tons of other CPU hogging components that are part of the required install, like NAV 10. I'm back to NAV 10 for now, but will watch this thread closely. How excited was I to find that NAV 10, like NAV 9, forces it's menu item on every new user created?!?!
I love apps that hog the CPU and force their presence on your desktop/menu bar/system preference pane! Sadly, this is a required install in my office because we send and receive tons of scripts. Many mail agents won't accept attachments with viruses, and lots of scripts are sent to us with macro viruses on them that HAVE TO be removed in order to forward them on.
We have to fix problems we never created or were affected.
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Share this story. When it comes to OS X antivirus and security software, there aren't a whole lot of options or vendors out there, probably because Mac users are a bit less likely to want antivirus software. That attitude is gradually changing, though, as Mac owners are beginning to take notice of various security applications. One such application is Symantec's, a suite of security software with a long name and a variety of security features that was recently rereleased. The last version of NIS for OS X was released in 2003, and given the changes to OS X and the security landscape in that time, version 4.0 is more of a new release than an update.
In fact, it's a bit like, although NIS has the distinction of actually being useful. The suite combines the antivirus functionality of Norton AntiVirus with the Norton Confidential application, and also adds a firewall to the mix. As a result, NIS provides virus, phishing, and spyware protection. The package can also protect files, watch for Internet worms, automatically update its list of malicious IP addresses, keep an eye on your applications, and bake you holiday cookies. As far as pricing goes, NIS for Mac 4.0 will run you $80 for a year of service, or $30 more than Norton AntiVirus on its own.
Norton Confidential and Norton Personal Firewall are both $50 applications, so the package isn't a terrible deal if you're looking for protection from more than just viruses. And if you use both Windows and OS X frequently, the company is offering, which bundles both versions of NIS together and costs $90. As you might expect, you can get the goods via the page, or you can wait until January, when the retail version will appear in stores.
