PC Tools Firewall 6.0.0.81

[wolfstr]

Did you post the problem in PC Tools forum? Might be able to give you an answer there.

[mobiclue]

What about Ashampoo Firewall ? I am using it for the last 7 months .

[Anupam]

Originally Posted by wolfstr

Did you post the problem in PC Tools forum? Might be able to give you an answer there.

I haven't tried that yet. Thanks for the suggestion... will post there soon.

[Anupam]

Originally Posted by mobiclue

What about Ashampoo Firewall ? I am using it for the last 7 months .

I had tried Ashampoo Firewall earlier, and I did not like it. Don't remember the exact reasons now, but I am not going for it again, unless I start to read something good about it from reputed sites.

[Anupam]

I posted my problem on PC Tools Forum on 4th... no reply till now.

[Anupam]

I posted another reminder on their forum yesterday, and I got a reply telling me to follow some steps. Following those, I got my connection running, and now I have the latest version of PC Tools Firewall on my PC.

All I had to do was to go to the Local Connection properties, uncheck the PC Tools Firewall Driver, and press OK. That's it... I got the connection up and running.

Did not had this problem anytime since I am running PC Tools Firewall. Have asked more about it.

[wolfstr]

Originally Posted by Anupam

I posted another reminder on their forum yesterday, and I got a reply telling me to follow some steps. Following those, I got my connection running, and now I have the latest version of PC Tools Firewall on my PC.

All I had to do was to go to the Local Connection properties, uncheck the PC Tools Firewall Driver, and press OK. That's it... I got the connection up and running.

Did not had this problem anytime since I am running PC Tools Firewall. Have asked more about it.

I have uninstalled comodo and installed pc tools firewall plus to see if I would have any problems with it and everything is working well here. Glad to see that you got it working for you. Was watching to see how long it would take until you got a reply in PC tools forum. Guess the old saying, "Alls well that ends well" can be applied here. P.S. PC tools firewall seems to be working so well that I think I might just keep it. It's running good with avast 4.8 and WinPatrol.

[Anupam]

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 :

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.

They have asked me screenshots of the connection properties, so lets see what caused this problem, which I never had earlier.