Norton Personal Firewall
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| developer | Symantec Corporation |
| Current version | 2006 9.1.0.33 (2006) |
| operating system | Windows |
| category | Personal firewall |
| License | Proprietary |
| German speaking | Yes |
| www.symantec.de | |
The Norton Personal Firewall is up to version 2006 available as a separate commercial product. The personal firewall is also part of the Norton Internet Security software package . In addition to the desktop firewall, this contains an anti-virus program and a spam filter . Norton Internet Security 2007 is available on Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit) and Windows XP (32-bit) run and requires the manufacturer at least a 300 MHz clocked processor , 256 MB RAM and 350 MB free space on the hard drive . Versions of Norton Personal Firewall exist for Windows 2000 SP3 and XP (Norton Personal Firewall 2006), for Windows 98 and ME (Norton Personal Firewall 2005) as well as for Mac OS 9 and OS X (Norton Personal Firewall 3.0. For Macintosh ).
history
The historical forerunner of the Norton Personal Firewall is the Personal Firewall AtGuard from WRQ , which was available as freeware . In addition to a self-learning TCP / IP filter that can be adapted to the application, port and destination address, it offered the user additional advertising and cookie filters for browsing the World Wide Web . Numerous HTML strings suspected of being advertised are blocked after AtGuard has been installed. In addition, active content such as scripting , Java and ActiveX can be prevented for a specific domain.
The use of AtGuard requires basic knowledge of the TCP / IP protocol and a certain training period because of the many fine-tuning options , but if configured correctly, it offered effective protection against advertising, unwanted intruders and programs calling home.
All firewall rules and user settings were stored in the registry hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WRQ\IAM and can therefore be transferred to other installations.
Although the rights are now with Symantec due to the purchase, there are still isolated download options for the initially free software. The original developer has published the MD5 hash (6dea78ce53e564c49e22552f63b16c2e) of the last version he published on his unofficial AtGuard homepage. The file name of the associated download was atgd322u.exe .
Symantec bought AtGuard from WRQ in 1999 and renamed it Norton , which Symantec uses as a consumer brand. It goes back to the manufacturer of the Norton Commander , the company Peter Norton Computing , which was bought by Symantec in 1990.