Hi all, running Sunbelt Personal Firewall currently installed.

And im running Kaspersky Antivirus Scanner.

Having installed SP3 i managed to fubar the connection between the router and my wireless network card.

Giving me a connection, but with limited accesibility (i.e nothing what so ever)

Now i've tried various combinations, like installing a slightly older version of sunbelt personal firewall. And i can get this to work through the firewall, by setting the correct ip address for the router.

But then comes the problem with accessing this website, firefox decides it doesnt like it and starts doing a 1200mb page file dump. Which goes on forever, and i end up ending the process. Running Internet Explorer 7 does work with briskoda, just that its very lumpy.

Now if i disable the said firewall and run with windows firewall, the net works flawlessly on both browsers running briskoda.net.

Having just installed the latest version of the sunbelt firewall, i cant get the wireless card to connect to the router at all and just states limited connectivity again! Until like said above i revert to the windows firewall.

It really is puzzling me now, my previous problems were with Zonealarm Pro.

Which i ditched after it started randomly rebooting my computer for no reason.

I had no problems what so ever before i ended up messing the computer up with SP3 and for some reason didnt have a restore point to before the install of SP3.

Btw i am disabling the windows version when i run the third party firewall and visa versa.

Can anyone give me any advice?

Have you blocked everything in your routers IP range? So firewalls do this automatically, THEN ask you if they're safe to release.

Also check your browser is allowed full access under permitted applications, and usually these need full access/control.

Get a router with a simple NAT based firewall and bin the desktop rubbish. If you are already using a router and not a straight USB connection and you watch which websites you go on, you are reasonably safe.

Firewalls are meant to be on the perimeter of your network and the inside of the network is supposed to be clean from all that bobbins.

At home and work I dont use any third personal desktop firewalls, I leave the vista / xp ones enabled and they are sufficient as long as you are behind a NAT router. I have had no end of grief with third party personal firewalls so therefore binned the lot.

I switched to the free version of Comodo which has an absolutely stunning feature set and autoconfigures better than anything I've ever used. The useful aspect of having a desktop firewall with useful memory/resource access monitoring is to cover against egress attacks or undetected malware - it's good to know when something is trying it on

Its only since i updated the firewall and added sp3 that the computer became unusable.

I wish id looked into the problem further now, as i reinstalled windows quite a few times as it wouldn't quite work correctly. But this problem never existed until i updated the firewall and added sp3.

I just cant remember if i rebooted before i updated the firewall, so it may have just been the firewall doing what its doing now :(

The amount of stuff my firewall stops, I'm not trusting to be protected by NAT only.

The amount of stuff my firewall stops, I'm not trusting to be protected by NAT only.

Yes, this is the same for me.

And before It's mentioned, the router is locked down with only the bare minimum open all the time, and other stuff opened whilst using it, then the port is closed again.

You shouldn't really need to have anything open, unless you're running a server that you need to get to from the outside, such as smtp mail or web stuff. I really hate desktop firewalls but working in IT I'm bound to.

Just installed comode and all i can say is song and praise so far, went straight on and theres been no problems as of yet!

Thanks guys, shame my £10 license fee for sunbelt wont be used anymore.