Seems liek the build in one with XP SP2 is the bare bones it will do one task(sometimes) and one only. Very few options and hard to handle if you know what your doing or what you want to do. Idiots firewall basically...
Norton sucks.... They USED to be good. When they cared, now they are running of the name alone and the(what used to be) a good reputation.
Try mcafee, AVG, even Sygate Personal Firewall is decent too.)and free
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