I had Personal Firewall 3.0 installed on my XP64bit desktop for several weeks. At first, everyuthing worked fine, and my wife's laptop saw my desktop and it's network shares, and I could see her laptop on the LAN. After a short while (less than 2 weeks), my wife's laptop could connect only intermidently and only after I rebooted the desktop. Finally I reinstalled Windows XP64 last night from scratch, thinking it was a corruption in Windows, and set everything up again. I check the LAN connections and shares and it all worked, with Personal Firewall freshly installed. After 8 hours of both systems being idle, my wife's laptop can no longer connect to the desktop's shared drives, nor could I see her machine on the LAN, again. I checked settings to make sure the network was open for file and printer sharing, and indeed it was, and always had been. I even added exceptions for her direct IP address, but nothing worked. I disabled protection in Personal Firewall, and nothing happened either, no connections. I finally had to remove the program and now it works, and we can see each other again. Throughout the entire time, Internet connection was stable, and I could ping each machine from the other with no dropouts. This has been a gigantic waste of time, and I hope there is an easy exaplanation, otherwise I spent good money on nothing. Please, anyone can help? I did already sent an email to support, but I want to see if anyone out there has had a similar experience.

Hello,

I guess no one else has been seeing this but I just wanted to know if you did get help via the Support Center
http://www.lavasoft.com/support/securitycenter/
to resolve the issue?