Norton Personal Firewall

The Norton Personal Firewall is available as a stand-alone commercial product up to version 2006. In addition, the Personal Firewall is part of the software package Norton Internet Security. In addition to the desktop firewall This includes an antivirus program and a spam filter. Norton Internet Security 2007 on Windows Vista ( 32 and 64- bit ) and Windows XP ( 32- bit) and run according to the manufacturer requires at least a clocked with 300 MHz processor, 256 MB RAM and 350 MB free space on the hard disk. Versions of Norton Personal Firewall exist for Windows 2000 SP3 and XP (Norton Personal Firewall 2006), for Windows 98 and ME (Norton Personal Firewall 2005) as well as Mac OS 9 and OS X ( Norton Personal Firewall 3.0. For Macintosh ).

Historical precursors of Norton Personal Firewall is the personal firewall AtGuard of WRQ, which stood as freeware available. Symantec bought 1999 AtGuard WRQ. The name is used by Symantec Norton as a consumer brand. He goes to the manufacturer of the Norton Commander, the company Peter Norton Computing, back, which was bought in 1990 by Symantec.

Usenet users report that the software requires a lot of resources. Also of difficulty in uninstalling and compatibility issues with other programs is frequently reported.