Thanks for the help. Just wish I could have figured this out w/o wasting a
nice weekend re-installing (or considering the weekend, "resurrecting" is
more apropos) software that didn't need to be reinstalled... But that is of
course one of the joys of computing!


".Joe" wrote:


Tom McNally;659874 Wrote:
Although I admit Norton 360 does have issues, this was not the root
cause of
my problem. I reinstalled Vista from scratch w/o installing any
programs --
Norton included -- and found that once again upon installing SP1, my
internet
connection and web-site resolution was poor at best.

After walking through various scenarios with the Microsoft Help Desk, I
finally found the cause: The problem lay in my DHCP and DNS settings on
my
2003 server. While I had correctly setup my DNS server, I had
inadvertently
opened up the port on my firewall for DNS resolution, pointing to the
server's IP address on the local network. So in effect the DNS server
was
attempting to resolve names (wasn't necessary since this is just for
internal
resolution) and since I had DNS set for secure dynamic updates only, to
AD-trusted servers, I was excluding 90% of the non-Unix based name
servers
out there.

Once I cleaned that up (shut down the DNS services port on the firewall
and
modified some DHCP settings) everything went smoothly; in fact, my
speed
increased 3x through my ISP. Obviously SP1 is less forgiving (more
secure)
than its predecessor; just unfortunate that I had to go and reinstall
everything just to be sure.

Norton 360 (I upgraded to ver 2) doesn't hinder me at all. Works better
than ver 1 and is a little more transparent. I like the low memory
footprint
of this program and think that Symantec finally has something
worthwhile
after several years of bloated antivirus programs (and I have tried
just
about all of them -- including AVG)

-Tom

BTW, Acronis, which I use for HD imaging, took over 10 hours to recover
my
image stored on a USB drive. It takes about 1.5 hours to backup the
entire
265Gigs, but 10x that when restoring. Next time around will partition
better
so the files are kept separate, should I have to restore again.

"Bob" wrote:


Norton is likely causing your problem.

Replace Norton with the free AVG 'AVG Free Advisor - Free antivirus
and anti-spyware downloads' (http://free.grisoft.com/) or Avast
'Free antivirus - avast! 4 Home Edition'
(http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html), and Windows Firewall and
Windows
Defender. Disabling Norton is not enough. You need to completely
uninstall
it. If it doesn't solve the problem, get rid of Norton anyway. Norton
is
known to cause problems in which don’t always appear immediately.

Download and run the Norton Removal Tool.

'Download and run the Norton Removal Tool'
(http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...05033108162039)

It's called "360" because Symantec's goal is complete ownership of
your
computer, and with even less communication about what it's trying to
do or
ways to configure it than ever before (which would only interfere
with its
goal.) That, along with Symantec's famous technical support, makes
Norton
360 a disaster that I would only install on Granny's computer if she
was
going to disinherit me.



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It sounds like you're working again. That's good news. If we can help
with anything else, just give us a post.

Best wishes.


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.Joe

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