nortons blocking

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i beleave my norton 10 is blocking my accses how do i get around this

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Blocking your access to what ?

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Norton is a terrible program and should be removed and replaced with something else that will solve your problem and In most cases improve your systems performance as the resource hog is gone.

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Blocking your access to what ?

it wont let sto accses my computer

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STO can be a few different things so I'll try to clarify.

Are you having problems trying to download the STO client off the internet?
Are you having problems trying to install the game from the files you downloaded?
Are you having problems starting the game launcher?

You should have had to do those 3 things in order ...I need to know at what point you are.

Just saying its not working doesnt help me :(

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i beleave my norton 10 is blocking my accses how do i get around this

1. Disable norton
2. Uninstall norton
3. Throw norton out the window

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Munchy,

In Nortons go into the Settings and find the Program Controls options which will be located under different headings depending on your version of nortons (In Internet Security 2009 it is located under Internet Settings->Smart Firewall) and located Cryptic Game Launcher (Star Trek Online.exe) and set it to Allow or add it if it isn't there.

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Munchy,

In Nortons go into the Settings and find the Program Controls options which will be located under different headings depending on your version of nortons (In Internet Security 2009 it is located under Internet Settings->Smart Firewall) and located Cryptic Game Launcher (Star Trek Online.exe) and set it to Allow or add it if it isn't there.

Norton will severely slow down your game... just letting you know.

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SteppenRazor,

In my twelve years of using Nortons I have never seen a noticeable drop in performance in games or otherwise when tested against the same games on a fresh version of windows without Nortons. Well this is only my experience with the software, I am curious where you got you information because I've never heard of Nortons causing speed issues before.

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SteppenRazor,

In my twelve years of using Nortons I have never seen a noticeable drop in performance in games or otherwise when tested against the same games on a fresh version of windows without Nortons. Well this is only my experience with the software, I am curious where you got you information because I've never heard of Nortons causing speed issues before.

Um... ok. YOu have been using Norton for 12 years and never noticed how much of a resource hog it is? Really? Wow. I have no argument. Cheers.

Please note my avatar... thank you, have a nice day.

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Norton will severely slow down your game... just letting you know.

Hi thats not true anymore Norton is nolonger the sytem resourse hog it once was while that may have been true for the norton versions from 04/05/6 07 to a lesser extent since 08 its been getting better and better i dont use it myself but every time my subscription is comeing up for renewal i read all the reviews of all the lateset products before desideing if i should swap or not

Heres a link to the latest independent review for all the major internet security brands think you might be surprised :P
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2009/12/av-testorg_releases_real-world.php

MALWARE DETECTION RATES AND WARNING MESSAGES (FALSE ALARMS)
Tested Product Malware Detected False Alarms
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2010 98.0% almost none
Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 97.5% few
PC Tools Internet Security 2010 95.8% almost none
AVG Internet Security 9.0 92.2% few
G Data Internet Security 2010 90.0% many
Panda Internet Security 2010 90.0% almost none
Avira Premium Security Suite 9.0 87.7% many
McAfee Internet Security 2010 87.2% few
CA Internet Security 2010 86.7% few
F-Secure Internet Security 2010 85.8% almost none
BitDefender Internet Security 2010 84.3% few
Trend Micro Internet Security 2010 83.3% few

MALWARE BLOCKING RATES AND BLOCKED GOOD PROGRAMS (FALSE ALARMS)
Tested Product Malware Blocked False Alarms
PC Tools Internet Security 2010 94.8% none
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2010 92.8% none
Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 89.8% few
Panda Internet Security 2010 88.7% none
Avira Premium Security Suite 9.0 87.2% none
McAfee Internet Security 2010 86.7% none
AVG Internet Security 9.0 84.2% few
G Data Internet Security 2010 83.0% few
Trend Micro Internet Security 2010 81.3% few
F-Secure Internet Security 2010 80.2% none
BitDefender Internet Security 2010 77.8% none
CA Internet Security 2010 73.5% none

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i beleave my norton 10 is blocking my accses how do i get around this

there should be an option in the menu that accepts said program .

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Hi thats not true anymore Norton is nolonger the sytem resourse hog it once was while that may have been true for the norton versions from 04/05/6 07 to a lesser extent since 08 its been getting better and better i dont use it myself but every time my subscription is comeing up for renewal i read all the reviews of all the lateset products before desideing if i should swap or not


May be true... but they have lost a life long customer here because of their short-commings in the past. Also i game too much to use any active protection. I just use passive scanners every now and then. Personal preference. For the rest of you, follow REDEN's advice... you could use some protecting.

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Been using norton for years, if it is a resource hog, dont tell my computer, cause it doesnt know the difference.