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I just purchase my Sony S laptop.

After sometimes I found that my internet connection go really slow, and even get strange behviour with internet connection. I check everything from where it may comes, and it seems it is related with Norton Internet Security 2005. Before having a S I use to have a TR with Norton Internet Security 2004, I didn’t had any issue like this.

Does anybody who use this software had similar issue ? and possibly find a solution to solve it (without of course switch off).

Thanks for your help.

Julien.

Rcently I had been having similar problems. I suspected it was my router so I connected my cable modem directly to my desktop and the problem went away. I switched off and on my router and even upgraded the firmware and now it’s working fine. If you have a router, try a direct connection from your modem to your laptop and see if that makes any difference. btw, I have a linksys wireless G router with speedbooster (WRT54GS).

I also have NIS 2005 on a T250. My only problem us their update roulette. I want the updates, but I never know ahead of time if the update is going to require me to reboot my computer. Once you get that “reboot” screen, there is no out. You can try to move the screen to the side, and that works for a while. But then it starts poping up and demanding a reboot. What a PITA! Why can’t they wait for you to reboot later - even Microsoft is more reasonable.

Other than that, the package is fine. I use two different users for work and home. I was able to set up two sets of trusted zones. That was a nice touch.

[quote author="deichenlaub"]even Microsoft is more reasonable.

you sure about that? Their stupid update util will inform you that it will reboot the comp in 5 or so mins. You get an option to cancel it but it will return after sometime again. So, if you don’t attend to your comp during the 5 min warning it gives you, it will reboot your comp.  If you disable automatic updates, on every boot it will popup a little note saying that updates are disabled, blah blah and will put a tray icon with a X in it. I couldn’t find an option to stop nagging you on every boot.

Rahul, I just found that out last week about the automatic updates, when I came back and found my computer—an entire day later. Obviously I was pretty pissed!

what exactly? ...that the screen returns after sometime warning that it will reboot in 5 mins?

Ok guys.

First thanks for your help. I think I finally get it about my problems.

The first thing I have done, is disabling the launch at the start of everything related NIS (basiscally the operation consist in going to regsitry and rename all the exe entry realted with NIS), to be sure that my problem comes from NIS. I make some test, and the computer seems to work fine.

So I decide to make more investigations about NIS. I found a feature in NIS that really surprise me. NIS 2005 had a privacy option. I was quite curious about what this feature would be. I check the description, and after reading I was thinking how my god, how this is suppose to work without killing all performance. It seems this feature aims to avoid sensible data to be sent to Internet. You would tell me nothing wrong about this, but when you check what they mean about sensible data, they are talking about text !!!!!  :shock: How crazy are they, because to really protect those kind of data, you need to scan everything who go out of your computer, which could be hugely performance consuming because based on text comparison. So finally, I switch off this option and i don’t have anymore internet slowing down or any perfomance issue. 

Also, about updates, if you don’t want automatic updates to be done, yo can disable automatic liveupdates from the options. Just open the NIS window by double cliking the tray icons. Go to Norton Internet Security Options, and Liveupdate tab, and you have a lot of options you can setup about liveupdate.

By the way, just a funny behaviour too. After sometimes, I was having a message when opening outlook or sometimes under windows, telling me that Norton Antivirus 2005 does not support repair and I need to reinstall NIS 2005. Can you guess from where this crap come ? :shock:  Just changing the place of NIS shortcut directory in startup menu.  Honestly, I don’t understand how people from symantec are designing there application. I never see any programs who use start menu shortcut to work, it doesn’t make sense at all.

Anyway, after all this happen, NIS is working quite fine. I hope it stays like this.

Anyway, thanks again guys for your help.

Julien.

I’ve had that unsupported repair crap too… I didn’t realize it was something as simple as that… Thanks for investigating all this.