Thanks everyone for trying to assist me in my dilemma.
Just to be clear, NIS program(s) is no where to be found installed anywhere on the harddrive of the computer
BUT....................................
Security Center must think that there is a firewall from Norton still existing???
Out of curiosity I clicked on the Windows Firewall to be active and when I checked the Security Center it comes up with "At least ONE of the firewalls installed on this computer is currently ON" Further on it states: "Note: two or more firewalls running at the same time can conflict with each other". This seems to indicated also that Security Center is detecting a firewall by Norton and thus indicating that when I activate the Windows Firewall I'm running two?
I think WE ALL can believe that I don't have Norton firewall and that if I activate the Windows Firewall I am actually running only one. Don't we??
So I'll try not to hung up about this no longer. I'm stuck with this silly indicator from Security Center.
I'm noticing that most of you would use a firewall other than Windows? I am currently using the "hardware" firewall that comes with the NETGEAR router. Any suggestions that will work with my peculiar situation?
Thanks again
Bob Bray