Symantec's Norton Personal Firewall 2005

Keeps personal data in and hackers out

Symantec's Norton Personal Firewall 2005 keeps personal data in and hackers out. Right out of the box, it makes your PC invisible on the Internet so that hackers can’t find it. The program’s intelligent intrusion prevention technology blocks suspicious Internet traffic. And easy-to-use privacy controls prevent personal information from being sent out without your knowledge.

Key Features

• NEW! Confidential information blocking now lets you send personal data to sites you trust while protecting you from sending it to sites you don’t.
• NEW! Automatically turns the firewall back on after a set period of time if you need to turn it off temporarily.
• Hides your PC on the Internet so that hackers can’t find it.
• Intrusion prevention technology automatically blocks suspicious incoming traffic.
• Norton™ Privacy Control prevents data from being sent without your knowledge in email, instant messages, Microsoft® Office attachments, and Web forms.
• Program Control only allows authorized programs to connect to the Internet.
• A Web assistant lets you block ads and access other program options from Microsoft® Internet Explorer.
• LiveUpdate™ automatically checks for new protection updates when you’re online.*

* Twelve months of protection updates included with purchase of Norton Personal Firewall 2005; annual subscriptions available for subsequent updates.

System Requirements

Windows® XP Home Edition/Professional/Tablet PC/Media Center

• 300MHz processor or higher
• 128 MB of RAM
• Windows 2000 Professional (SP1 required)
• 133MHz processor or higher
• 96 MB of RAM

Windows Me

• 150MHz or higher processor
• 96 MB of RAM
• Windows 98, 98SE
• 133MHz or higher processor
• 64 MB of RAM

REQUIRED FOR ALL INSTALLATIONS

• 35 MB of available hard disk space
• DVD or CD drive
• Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 browser or later

Private information blocking supports:

• AOL® Instant Messenger 4.3 and later
• MSN® Messenger 4.6, 4.7, 6.0, and later (MSN 5.0 is not supported)
• Windows® Messenger 4.7 and later
• Standard POP3 and SMTP-compatible email clients
• Standard Web browsers