Verizon Internet Security Suite is evil!

[VirtualLarry]

I had to work on/upgrade someone's system tonight. From an Intel P4 2.8Ghz, 1GB DDR, to an AMD Athlon II X2 250 3.0Ghz, 4GB DDR2.

Anyways, I got a blue screen when I booted up to the new mobo and hardware. So I booted the XP CD, went to Recovery Console, and typed "disable intelppm", to disable the intel power-management driver. (You have to do this when moving from an Intel mobo to an AMD mobo.) Booted and still got a blue screen. So I did a repair install. That worked.

So I installed all of the drivers off of the Biostar A780L mobo CD, including the Realtek NIC driver.

Got everything installed, and tried to access the internet. No luck. Typed "ipconfig /all", and it displayed nothing. Literally. It seemed to think that the network card was missing, not present. Opened Task Manager, and it said "No Network Adapters Detected".

Yet, if I went into Control Panel, Networks, it displayed the network connection, and it said connected. Viewing the stats, it showed that 0 packets sent, 0 packets received.

Something wasn't right. I booted an Ubuntu CD to see if it was the hardware. Ubuntu worked fine, I was able to browse the internet. So it had to be something in Windows.

Eventually, I figured it out, by uninstalling the Verizon Internet Security Suite. It was blocking the network card, for some reason. Once I did that, the DSL modem "Data light" lit up, which meant a link to the ethernet card was working.

So I just installed Avast instead of Verizon Internet Security Suite. Eventually I will put on Norton Internet Security.

So let this be a lesson, "Security Suites" suck, and mess everything up. Especially anything based on McAfee.

 

[drebo]

Norton Internet Security is just as bad.

Just install Microsoft Security Essentials and be done with it.

 

[JackMDS]

Most of the 3rd party security suits (Norton. McAfee, Kaspersky, AVast, ZA) are trouble with Win 7.

Win 7 Networking is more complex than previous releases of Windows, most End-users today have Networks of few computers and variety of other devices.

The 3rd party security suits are mainly developed with the idea that they are sold to protect one computer from the Internet.

They do this task OK but in the process they ""protect"" the LAN too (by blocking aspect of LAN traffic).

The differences between the top security suits are minute. Each one might miss something when tested, but in general they provide similar protection.

So the best solution that works well with both the Internet and LAN is to use on each Networked computers running Windows Vista/Win 7 the Advanced native software Firewall, and install the free Microsoft Security Essentials as AV and Antispyware applications.

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials


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