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    PC Tools Firewall not staying enabled

    Discussion in 'Security and Anti-Virus Software' started by Sahugani, Nov 28, 2009.

  1. Sahugani

    Sahugani Notebook Consultant

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    this is getting annoying. i recently upgraded to win7 and the firewall in question doesnt want to stay active. i reinstalled it after turning off windows firewall. i got a little message saying it was disabled and i enabled it. no more than 10 seconds later it turns itself off. PC Tools claims its compatible with win7 but i think its a load of bull. are there any 3rd party firewalls that will play nice with win7?
     
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  2. arjunned

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    Hmm.. I've tested PCTools Firewall in W7 and it worked fine.
    Try uninstalling and then removing all registry entries with something like CCleaner and try again. BTW, wat other app.'s are you running alongside PCTools? Maybe there is a conflict.

    Outpost, Online Armor and Comodo work very well with W7.

    Also, are you running x86 or x64?

    Cheers.
     
    arjunned, Nov 29, 2009
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  3. Sahugani

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    i am running 64 bit win7. i run Avira Antivirus Premium and malwarebytes anti malware with pc tools.
     
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    MBAM free or payed version?
     
    arjunned, Nov 29, 2009
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    MBAM free version
     
    Sahugani, Nov 29, 2009
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