Need Advice to form outbound rule -Vista, WindowsMail and Symantec

[Guest homerat]

I need help forming an outbound rule for the firewall in vista home

premium 32 bit. I am using Windows Mail, and the Windows firewall, and

Norton internet security 2008. I don't use the Norton Firewall.

 

 

I have turned on the outbound firewall and have been creating rules for

Firefox, Skype etc. this works ok. But Windows Mail is being blocked,

because the virus scanner in Norton is not allowed to proceed. After

creating a rule for Windows Mail, if I turn off Email scanning in

Norton, then the mail connects thru the firewall ok.

 

 

My principle problem , and what I seek advice on, is that I cannot

figure out which Norton program or service to allow in a rule. Norton

has hidden itself pretty well. This is all for the outbound firewall

protection, not inbound. So I would appreciate someone to give me some

step by step advise on creating such a rule.

 

 

I want to keep using the Windows Firewall.

 

 

Thanks in advance,

Homer_at

 

 

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homerat

[Guest DL]

You should'nt use email scanning, either in or out with Mail or any other

mail application, as this causes no end of problems with mail applications

 

"homerat" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message

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>

> I need help forming an outbound rule for the firewall in vista home

> premium 32 bit. I am using Windows Mail, and the Windows firewall, and

> Norton internet security 2008. I don't use the Norton Firewall.

>

>

> I have turned on the outbound firewall and have been creating rules for

> Firefox, Skype etc. this works ok. But Windows Mail is being blocked,

> because the virus scanner in Norton is not allowed to proceed. After

> creating a rule for Windows Mail, if I turn off Email scanning in

> Norton, then the mail connects thru the firewall ok.

>

>

> My principle problem , and what I seek advice on, is that I cannot

> figure out which Norton program or service to allow in a rule. Norton

> has hidden itself pretty well. This is all for the outbound firewall

> protection, not inbound. So I would appreciate someone to give me some

> step by step advise on creating such a rule.

>

>

> I want to keep using the Windows Firewall.

>

>

> Thanks in advance,

> Homer_at

>

>

> --

> homerat </span>

[Guest Alun Jones]

Loath as I am to suggest to anyone that they turn off a running antivirus

program, here's a case where I have to agree with DL - as to the explanation

why:

1. If you've already got active virus scanning, scanning everything you load

and run, mail scanning _by_the_same_program_ will not achieve anything other

than double slow-down. Mail scanning by a _different_ program will have some

use, and you'll find many mail servers will virus-scan incoming messages

before your client gets to them.

2. Antivirus scanning of mail often takes so long that mail clients and/or

servers think that the mail server is non-responsive. This leads to the mail

client stating that it hasn't sent the email, and the mail server to refuse

to accept the message. As a defence against this, the antivirus companies

typically send multiple non-operative commands or blank headers in the

message - this in itself bloats the transaction between client and server to

an unhelpful extent, and can cause messages to not be delivered

successfully.

 

Alun.

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"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message

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> You should'nt use email scanning, either in or out with Mail or any other

> mail application, as this causes no end of problems with mail applications

>

> "homerat" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message

> news:3718e1cb9cef048d0f68691ea86870a0@nntp-gateway.com...<span style="color:green">

>>

>> I need help forming an outbound rule for the firewall in vista home

>> premium 32 bit. I am using Windows Mail, and the Windows firewall, and

>> Norton internet security 2008. I don't use the Norton Firewall.

>>

>>

>> I have turned on the outbound firewall and have been creating rules for

>> Firefox, Skype etc. this works ok. But Windows Mail is being blocked,

>> because the virus scanner in Norton is not allowed to proceed. After

>> creating a rule for Windows Mail, if I turn off Email scanning in

>> Norton, then the mail connects thru the firewall ok.

>>

>>

>> My principle problem , and what I seek advice on, is that I cannot

>> figure out which Norton program or service to allow in a rule. Norton

>> has hidden itself pretty well. This is all for the outbound firewall

>> protection, not inbound. So I would appreciate someone to give me some

>> step by step advise on creating such a rule.

>>

>>

>> I want to keep using the Windows Firewall.

>>

>>

>> Thanks in advance,

>> Homer_at

>>

>>

>> --

>> homerat</span>

>

> </span>

[Guest Kayman]

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:42:01 -0600, homerat wrote:

<span style="color:blue">

> I need help forming an outbound rule for the firewall in vista home

> premium 32 bit. I am using Windows Mail, and the Windows firewall, and

> Norton internet security 2008. I don't use the Norton Firewall.

>

> I have turned on the outbound firewall and have been creating rules for

> Firefox, Skype etc. this works ok. But Windows Mail is being blocked,

> because the virus scanner in Norton is not allowed to proceed. After

> creating a rule for Windows Mail, if I turn off Email scanning in

> Norton, then the mail connects thru the firewall ok.</span>

 

Why You Don't Need Your Anti-Virus Program to Scan Your E-Mail

http://thundercloud.net/infoave/tutorials/...nning/index.htm

Viral Irony: The Most Common Cause of Corruption.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/commun...corruption.mspx

 

And ensure your e-mail program is configured to display e-mail messages in

'Plain Text' only.