[najida]

I'm OK.

It just seems my Norton Security System has blocked me from all secured sites and told me that I don't have authorization to change anything.
ARGH!
And I've been on hold for 10 minutes now.

[apackof2]

Can anyone help najida with a software problem?

It just seems my Norton Security System has blocked me from all secured sites and told me that I don't have authorization to change anything

[Americanwolfsbrother]

A couple of things to try...

1) make sure you are logged in a system administrator.

2) If you made a recovery disk when you installed Norton you can use that to gain access to the firewall.

3) Reboot the system. It may clear a corrupted file that is hanging up you firewall.


AWB

[scott7278]

Whenever I've had an access problem, I go and delete the "Microsoft Generic Host Process for Win32 Services" entry and the problem is fixed.

Shut down all open programs, Go to the "Firewall" page, click "Configure," supply the password (you SHOULD have a password), click the "Programs" button, and then remove the "Microsoft Generic Host Process for Win32 Services" entry under "Manual Program Control."

Reboot your computer and Norton will recreate this rule. This has always fixed it for me.