Norton Personal Firewall 3.0.2 incompatible with Mac OS X 10.4

   Norton Personal Firewall (NPF) 3.0.2, the current version of the
campus's site-licensed personal ("host-based") firewall for Mac OS X,
is incompatible with Mac OS X 10.4 ("Tiger").

   We have just received word from its vendor, Symantec Corporation,
about when a compatible version will be available. From our
standpoint, the news isn't good: the initial update for Tiger
compatibility is currently expected to be released three months from
now, in mid-August 2005.

   Regarding this, the following information has been posted today to
the NPF 3.0.2 product page on the WSS Software website:

   http://software.berkeley.edu/mac/npf-osx/current/index.html

   This version of Norton Personal Firewall is incompatible with Mac
OS X 10.4 ("Tiger"), due to significant changes that Apple has made
to kernel extension support in that operating system. If your
Macintosh is currently running Mac OS X 10.4 - or when you are about
to upgrade it to that version - you should uninstall Norton Personal
Firewall using the "Symantec Uninstaller" utility, which you can find
in the Norton Solutions or Symantec Solutions sub-folder within the
Applications folder.

   Until Norton Personal Firewall is updated, you can provide firewall
protection for your Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.4 by turning on
that operating system's built-in firewall. To do this, select
"Software Update..." from the Apple menu, click the "Sharing" icon,
click the "Firewall" tab, and click the "Start" button. You should
also enable logging of denied connection attempts by clicking the
"Advanced..." button and clicking the "Enable Firewall Logging"
checkbox, then clicking the "OK" button.

   The vendor, Symantec Corporation, has informed us that a
Tiger-compatible version of Norton Personal Firewall will be
available later this year, with a currently scheduled release date of
mid-August 2005. For updated information, please see Symantec's Tiger
compatibility page at
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/num.nsf/docid/2005032314263511.

Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group

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Received on Wed May 18 15:36:21 2005