Re: Norton Internet Security and XP Pro *before* logon

Hi Adam,

- thanks for your swift reply, it's put my mind at ease; I can now listen to
streaming BBC7 comedy from the PC downstairs with no worries!!

Cheers,

Chris.


"Adam Piggott" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> CDB wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> - I'm new to this group and I've looked through your posts and Googled
>> for
>> an answer to my query to no avail.
>>
>> I have a home network. The Internet Gateway is an XP Pro SP2 machine
>> running
>> Norton Internet Security 2005 connected by a cable modem (NTL in the UK)
>> on
>> a dedicated Ethernet card.
>>
>> Windows is up to date on all the networked PC's. Since I run Norton
>> Personal
>> Firewall, the Windows firewall is disabled. I run Spybot S&D,
>> Anti-Adaware
>> and MS Anti-Spyware on a weekly basis on each PC and have never had a
>> problem. The network is connected via a switch to a second Ethernet card
>> in
>> the gateway PC.
>>
>> If I turn on the gateway PC, switch and cable modem, the rest of the
>> network
>> has access to the Internet, shared folders on the gateway and shares on
>> other connections *even though the gateway PC is sitting at the logon
>> screen*.
>>
>> My question is this:
>>
>> Does Norton load before the Windows logon?
>>
>> Am I protected from Internet intrusions *before* I logon to XP or should
>> I
>> establish a user connection to the gateway before I turn on the other
>> home
>> PC's?
>
> By design I believe that NIS should be protecting you even before Windows
> has started up and if there are no users logged on. It does this by
> running
> as a special type of program called a "Service". Such programs are
> designed
> to run quite happy with no logged on users.
>
> HTH
> - --
> Adam Piggott, Proprietor, Proactive Services (Computing).
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