11.5 and Firewall

[Mindyz]

I'm using a Mac G4 Laptop. I have v11.5 and installed a Norton Personal Firewall. When VW is open I am continually bombarded with Firewall dialogue boxes requesting to change the port configurations. When I approve that change - it moves on to the next port number. It's rather relentless. The temporary solution is to turn or the firewall or my Internet connection to work on VW. This is not very convenient.

The box reads as follows:

The program ?VectorWorks? has opened the port 499653 on your computer, but your firewall does not allow connections to this port.

It is unusual for a program to open a port in this range. Programs tha topen connections on this port should be used with caution.

Has anyone had experience with this problem?

Can anyone help?

Thanks

[Delmer]

I just said deny all and have heard no more from it.

[Mindyz]

Thanks Delmer, but I am set for "Deny All" yet it continues.

Unless I now need to post a help message on the Symantec site!

[Delmer]

If you get actual help from Symantec you might be the first.

If you go to your NIS, click firewall, click configure, then the programs tab, scroll down to VW. Does it say block all? Either that or permit all should do it. Anything but automatic. If that's not it its beyond me.

[ionw]

This is the license check. If you are legal you could also simply configure the firewall to allow traffic on that port.

[Mindyz]

I do approve it for that port . . . then 3 minutes later it's the next port number. It's endless.

However, Delmer's note got me digging and I managed to turn off the notifications.

So thanks all for trying.

[Guest]

Most of the virus protection software allows you to set rules for various applications. I know with Norton you can set a rule to ignore VectorWorks rather than ignore a port.

[Hugo]

Apart from that, why use Norton Personal Firewall since Mac OS X comes with a built in Firewall, that is very secure and more than enough? Norton will only use memory and CPU from your Mac. It is useless.