I installed the trial version of Personal Firewall 3. Everything appeared to work just fine. After rebooting, I checked out the various activity windows in the product; again everything appeared normal. HOWEVER, when I attempted to use the internet browser, no matter what site I attempted to access, it never went through, it just sat there forever saying "connecting". I looked in the Firewall 3 windows again, but nothing seemed to indicate any problem.

Then I turned off "web control" or whatever it's actually called, STILL "connecting" forever.

Then I told Firewall 3 that Iexplore.exe was to be trusted completely. STILL "connecting" forever.

The only thing that makes the internet browser work again is to uninstall the Personal Firewall 3 software.

I used the Personal Firewall 1.0 for a long time with no problems at all. Now I have a new computer and I went to try version 3.0 and this happens.
I am running Windows XP Pro with service pack 3. Also Avast, which Firewall 3 recognized and which it seems to be coexisting with happily.
The various Firewall 3.0 windows seem to indicate that plenty of internet activity is going on, but for some reason I can't use the browser.

I am not too impressed with Personal Firewall 3.0 at this point.

Does anyone have any suggestions of what I could try to get this wonderful product to actually work?

Hi dana1007
pls have a look to > http://www.lavasoftsupport.com/index.php?s...ost&p=80521 <
and follow the prompts.
Hope it helps , if not - post back.
A nice day
Raziel

I don't understand. The link you provided takes me to a post about something called vmware.exe which is referred to as a virtual machine. I don't know what this has to do with the problem I have with getting a response from the internet browser. Perhaps this is not the link you intended to provide?