Hello avibky, Nice to see you doing the rounds here. You are truly a help here. Reason why I used ESS ver5 is that I obtained a license and not wanting to waste it --I used it. The dealer said that it has a shelf life but apparently it does not. So I was duped into using it actually. So I intend to use it. I find the Eset firewall "different". About Kaspersky Labs KIS 2012 firewall, yeah the girlfrined is using one and we have done that adjustment and obtained TruStealth, quite nice actually. Program has improved and to my surprise was "light" unlike the 2011 version I tried last year. The Eset guides was a waste of time. True they have this nice pictures but is not designed for something like this. Hell I even posted in another forum asking for help from Eset guys and I am getting a feeling that they don't wanna respond to the issue. Saw some issues with the GRC "Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED)" is connected to ICMP also there. So it's not only me who has this one. The HIPS issue is also unclear to me. I cannot block the issue I have posted in Eset firewall/HIPS. On some .exe it did blocked the launch of the default browser. But this one specifically as that of CCleaner and KMPlayer it failed. Is there any site that is safe to go to test this "Ping Reply: RECEIVED (FAILED)" is connected to ICMP". other than PCFlank..? With PCFlank I am getting a full stealth which confuses me. Again thanks for the help. jason

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On a lighter note, I seem to have this problem when I post.....although I type with spaces, I get the display packed. I was thinking it was because I used WordPad but I did the latest post in the Quick repl but ended up the same. Any ideas there...? Jason