Getting tons of Low Risk Warnings with Norton

I have been inundated with "Low Risk" warnings under my
Norton Internet Security Program Control and it's driving
me crazy! In order to reduce the number of warnings, the
program suggests 1) Turning on Automatic Program Control
and 2) Running a Program Scan. I have done both and the
messages continue popping up on my screen. Any
suggestions on how to get rid of this continual barrage
of "Low Risk" warnings? Can't find anything in manual or
on Norton site to help me. Thanks for any suggestions
you can give me!

zz
Thu May 06 04:38:54 CDT 2004

Therese wrote:
> I have been inundated with "Low Risk" warnings under my
> Norton Internet Security Program Control and it's driving
> me crazy! In order to reduce the number of warnings, the
> program suggests 1) Turning on Automatic Program Control
> and 2) Running a Program Scan. I have done both and the
> messages continue popping up on my screen. Any
> suggestions on how to get rid of this continual barrage
> of "Low Risk" warnings? Can't find anything in manual or
> on Norton site to help me. Thanks for any suggestions
> you can give me!

If the firewall is blocking the attempts then it is doing its job. What
IP(s) are they from? They might be from your ISP.

More likely it is infected systems on the Internet. Turnoff the alerts,
just look at the logs from time to time.Don't change you settings just
to lessen the number af alerts.

g-w

Karl
Thu May 06 05:58:39 CDT 2004

If we knew more about what these low risk warnings specifically were, we
might be better able to help. [Plus, this is a Microsoft forum, not the
first place I would go to get information on how to use Norton products.]
You could also try searching www.google.com and
www.google.com/advanced_group_search

"Therese" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:905401c43334$928c4a00$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I have been inundated with "Low Risk" warnings under my
> Norton Internet Security Program Control and it's driving
> me crazy! In order to reduce the number of warnings, the
> program suggests 1) Turning on Automatic Program Control
> and 2) Running a Program Scan. I have done both and the
> messages continue popping up on my screen. Any
> suggestions on how to get rid of this continual barrage
> of "Low Risk" warnings? Can't find anything in manual or
> on Norton site to help me. Thanks for any suggestions
> you can give me!

N
Thu May 06 13:19:01 CDT 2004

In article <905401c43334$928c4a00$a601280a@phx.gbl>,
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com says...

> I have been inundated with "Low Risk" warnings under my
> Norton Internet Security Program Control and it's driving
> me crazy! In order to reduce the number of warnings, the
> program suggests 1) Turning on Automatic Program Control
> and 2) Running a Program Scan. I have done both and the
> messages continue popping up on my screen. Any
> suggestions on how to get rid of this continual barrage
> of "Low Risk" warnings? Can't find anything in manual or
> on Norton site to help me. Thanks for any suggestions
> you can give me!

The alerts are just Norton saying, "Wow! Look what I stopped! Aren't I
grand?" Don't lower your security level, just turn off the alerts. Since
they are "low level" warnings, Norton probably has a way of changing the
level of warning that will pop up an alert. See if only alerting on high
level threats will work.

I use Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1.5, and it doesn't pop up alerts unless I
configure a rule to do so. It does, occasionally, pop up a connection
request. I can either manually authorize, or deny, a connection, or create a
rule to automatically handle such requests in the future.

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