Well, the people at the forum had to be reminded to reply, and they did reply after that reminder. So yes, its good to get a helpful reply from their side.
PC Tools is a good firewall for the average and experienced users. Its a very easy, and friendly firewall. Kinda like install and forget. Of course to take more out of a firewall, you have to dig deeper and make some settings, but its really good for average users too. I too have Avast on my PC, and it plays well with it.
In response to my query about the PC Tools Firewall Driver, they have posted :
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PC Tools Firewall Driver is a specific type of network filter driver (NDIS Intermediate Driver) which is used for packet filtering. Unchecking of this driver cause that packet filter component of PC Tools component will not properly.
This is not a new component. Sometimes there is a problem appears when few NDIS Intermediate drivers work together.
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They have asked me screenshots of the connection properties, so lets see what caused this problem, which I never had earlier.