Norton Internet Security 2003 // switched off and could not be turned on again

Hi,

I got the following behaviour which might stem from an attack or
(which I think is more likely) from a malfunction of Internet Security 2003
The symptoms ..
* first I noticed that I could not connect to any https:// site
* then I noticed that the Virus Scanner and the Firewall were switched
off
* then I tried to switch them on again but I was blocked by the password
feature to do so
If an attacker would have done such a thing, then this would look the
hell like an attack - but I'm behind two firewalls and therefore the
machine is not very likely to get victim to port scans - email attacks would be
most likely for such a pattern - but I've seen no actual worm in the
alerts that has such a behavior and I tend to erase any unknown emails, do not
use outlook and the like ...

Anybody seen something similar?

Thanks

Wolfgang

anonymous
Sat Dec 20 09:21:57 CST 2003

Same thing last month. I changed the my picture on
windows xp login/password screen. Changed back to
original picture and NIS2003 was fixed back. Has
something to do with your admin account.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>I got the following behaviour which might stem from an
attack or
>(which I think is more likely) from a malfunction of
Internet Security 2003
>The symptoms ..
>* first I noticed that I could not connect to any
https:// site
>* then I noticed that the Virus Scanner and the Firewall
were switched
> off
>* then I tried to switch them on again but I was blocked
by the password
> feature to do so
>If an attacker would have done such a thing, then this
would look the
>hell like an attack - but I'm behind two firewalls and
therefore the
>machine is not very likely to get victim to port scans -
email attacks would be
>most likely for such a pattern - but I've seen no actual
worm in the
>alerts that has such a behavior and I tend to erase any
unknown emails, do not
>use outlook and the like ...
>
>Anybody seen something similar?
>
>Thanks
>
>Wolfgang
>.
>

wk
Sat Dec 20 13:07:52 CST 2003

wk@objectarchitects.de (Wolfgang Keller) wrote in message news:<ae01a906.0312200329.44a99508@posting.google.com>...

the cause was most likely an update of T-Online basis
software .. to T-Online 5.00.0047.
I was told that somewhere in the disclaimers for that
software update it is said that one should deactivate
virus scanners and the like ...
Not very acceptable for a mass distribution software
product ...

But I have no final certainity, whether that was the cause
but it is somewhat likely