Norton Firewall tends to deal in red herrings just like most other firewall venders. Probably at least half of all the "hacker" activity is harmless and part of normal operations for the Internet. Most of the rest is conducted by people who are lax on updating their systems with the latest security patches, use a Microsoft email client and open attachments, and/or lack any sort of anti-virus protection. Essentially a very small group of people have hijacked a much larger group of people's systems and are using them for their own means. Chances are good that even if you traced everything back, all you'd be doing is getting someone in trouble who was completely oblivious to the fact that it was even going on.
For all the "advances" Microsoft and Apple claim to have made in the way of easy to use programs and computers, all they've really succeeded in doing is breeding a better clueless user. It would seem even natural selection is a bit of a practical joker.
You're not equipped to track down the true source of these "attacks" to be blunt. Concern yourself more with keeping the real threats at bay as much as you can, given that a software firewall will only slow someone down -- if you're lucky -- if they want to get into your system, but it certainly won't stop a directed attack.
Working on OS Win XP 2002 version with 6.0 IE browser and Mozilla Email and Browser.
I have installed SmartCleaner,Spybot, Adaware and Shredder programs that keep me free from spam, ads, and clean my PC from unnecessary files, and they are doing a very nice job.
I get Norton firewall notices frequently about 'hackers' and would like to trace their address but never get further than the FAQ screen that tells one how to configure Java for the trace and other such questions about tracing the hacker addresses. Someone said the reason I can get no further is because I might have programs that interfer with the trace.
So am wondering if spybot, shredder or adaware or SmartCleaner programs might do this? And if so what I can do to disable them when I try a trace of a hacker address.

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