Oblivious Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 I have been trying to get my Utorrent to work for awhile now with limited success. I've set my Norton firewall to permit all internet activity via Utorrent, however, whenever I attempt a download, I am only bombarded by pop-ups. I've heard that turning off or modifying the worm protection feature on Norton solves the problem but I have yet to find this elusive feature. I have searched all the Norton options only to turn up empty handed (except for an worm blocking email option that seems to do me little good). Are there any users that have experience with NIS 2004 that could clear up this mess for me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
µtorrent-Guest Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 u are better off with deinstalling this POS!its just useless at best. and interfering with legitimate things like in this case at worst!http://copton.net/Personal_Firewalls/ccc-vortrag-en.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivious Posted June 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 that is not an option for me. any suggestions regarding how to get utorrent to work with my existing firewall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 Not really, NIS2004 has been known to cause problems. If you REALLY need to stick to Norton, your choice would have to be to upgrade to 2006, even though it sucks as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsillup Posted June 29, 2006 Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 To avoid nuisance NIS Intrusion Prevention warnings, deselect "Invalid TCP Destination Port", "Invalid TCP Source Port", and "MS Windows H.323 BO (2)" signatures on the Intrusion Prevention Signature Exclusions page of Intrusion Protection Advanced Configuration. More information concerning NIS configuration for µTorrent can be found in the Software Firewalls thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivious Posted June 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2006 I have excluded "Invalid TCP Destination Port", "Invalid TCP Source Port", and "MS Windows H.323 BO (2)" signatures but the barrage of pop-ups failed to cease. Any other suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus_1250 Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 What are all the pop-ups about, e.g. what do they say?As for NIS2004. Well, if removing it is not an option (you might need to find the KB article in their support database for that anyway, in most cases, just installing can't be done), you should upgrade. NIS2004 will not protect you against all malware and will cause problems you may not be aware of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 It's been known to open security holes, and it sure as hell doesn't protect you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivious Posted June 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Program control: High Risk; A remote system is trying to access your computerUnderneath it there is a box that gives me the time, date, protocol (ICMP inbound in this case), and remote address (an ip address followed by "Destination Unreachable (3)" ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Welcome to false alarm central. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Removing PFWs is always an option. Whether you want to is another matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivious Posted June 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 since the computer i'm currently operating off of is not my own, i cannot take that liberty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Try to turn off all the protection options it has, or something. See if that makes any difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivious Posted June 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 I turned off the security feature and the pop-ups stopped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus_1250 Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 Good to hear. I'm a bit baffled by the error NSIS returned. Do they even know what ICMP-messages are and what is the difference between them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsillup Posted June 30, 2006 Report Share Posted June 30, 2006 By default NIS 2006 allows Inbound ICMP commands 0 (Echo Reply), 3 (Destination Unreachable), and 11 (Time Exceeded) but blocks all others. No Security Alert pop-up will be issued. All Outbound ICMP commands are allowed. These are General Rules in Advanced Firewall configuration. Apparently NIS 2004 handled ICMP commands differently. As Ultima already mentioned if a µTorrent user desires to run NIS then the 2006 version is what the user should be running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezzo Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 I know it's popular and trendy to hate Norton, and I agree myself it's bloated... but I've never had a problem with the 2005 version of Internet Security. From time to time (rarely) I get the Invalid TCP Destination Port or whatever, but all I did was check the box so it wouldn't alert me about that again in the future, and it's been fine ever since.And my torrents still work perfectly, as does everything else that passes through the Norton firewall.Norton may not be popular among a certain segment of users, but for the vast majority of people the reality is that it works perfectly fine.Now with that being said, I'd say good bye to Norton for good for something more lightweight if any of the other firewalls had an equally good "set it and forget it" Ad Blocking system.As for false warnings and things of that nature, I'm sure there are similar issues in other programs as well. Nothing is perfect! But whenever someone has a problem and Norton is involved, it's just another chance for all the Norton haters to mouth off about how much it sucks, which doesn't help the person involved despite what the person mouthing off may think.At least there ARE still people who will actually do their best to help the users without spreading their OPINION about what is good and what is garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 Norton has been paid off by various companies (Sony rootkit anyone?) to allow THEIR adware and spyware through Norton's "blocks" without getting detected. That's enough reason right there to not consider their software the least bit trustworthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 And there's also the fact that Norton has had MANY security holes, and has been shown time and time again to miss many many worms and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jroc Posted July 1, 2006 Report Share Posted July 1, 2006 http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=23006#p23006See if this works if u wanna leave the security on. (The elusive Worm Protection):)But yea I fell outta luv with Norton when it let a virus thru and let it sit on my system for about 4 months. I might try the Firewall again but not the anti-virus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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