Hi,

Appreciate the help here thanks.

I did just that:

a. installed BufferZone Pro v3.42. Rebooted.
- But I cannot turn-off the firewall. I cannot see any button or some setting that I can use to turn the firewall off. See image.
- The config settings also does not say anything there.
- I just turned-off protection instead and the start-up program.

b. Installed CIS free v5.8
- Placed Program Files\Bufferzone and Program Data\Bufferzone in D+ as Trusted.

c. Rebooted.

There was no BSOD but the boot was long. It took almost 20,25minutes to forever from "Please Wait-Welcome-Preparing your desktop" and then all I see is a black screen with the arrow pointer. Restarted again. The same thing happened. I had to restore from a system image I have because it would not continue to boot.

I tried to install in an XP machine with AvastFree and just the windows firewall. BZ installed fine/no boot problems. Used an XP system image and installed a trial version of Avast IS. BZ installed fine and no boot problems. Used the XP system image again and installed Avira Premium. BZ installed fine/no boot problems. Installed Comodo. Again boot problems.

Makes me think that the firewall component or the HIPS is clashing or something...

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