Is anyone running this combination on Win7 32 bit? I’ve already tried Online Armour and wasn’t that impressed.
All recommendations appreciated.
Thanks
I’ve been using the Comodo firewall (free) for years with great results.When you download the firewall it comes with an AV program but when you install you select only the firewall to load. The AV sucks. All the Mags like PC and PC World love the firewall hate the AV. That’s why there’s Avast. Good luck…
This combo works very well for me on Win 7 x64. No complaints from me.
This combo works for me, but on Vista 64bit, not win7 32bit.
Comodo firewall sucks too unless you just choose the firewall only option. I could never get my head around all that defence+ proactive pop up stupidness, and the threatcast ratings thing never worked.
Hi: I am using this combination (Avast 5 Free + PCTools Free) on Windows7 (64bit). So far, 48 hours - everything is working OK, with no apparent conflict.
I notice that the firewall opens a pop-up every time avast.setup wants to execute an Avast virus definition update. Will these pop-ups eventually settle down, or is there some setting I am missing in the PCTools Firewall to permanently grant permission to avast.setup?
Thanks!
I’m seeing the same thing. Post back if you figure out how to stop the popups and I’ll do the same.
I use Avast Free Antivirus with PcTools and the Avast_setup pop up does not bother me any more since I told Pc Tools to remember my decistion, another important step is not ereasing Avast_setup in PCtools eventhough it says it is an uninstalled program, I decided just hidding it.
rm
The problem here is that the checkbox to remember is grayed out. It’s my girl’s PC so she may be leaving the popup sit there for so long that the option to remember is grayed out. I’ve only seen it after she has left it sitting for awhile because she wasn’t sure what to do. I need to tell her to check the box if it’s available. At least I have her trained enough to not do the “default allow” she used to do! 
Right now I am using Private Firewall ;D
Seem that I was influenced by someone in this forum and become addicted to this firewall ;D
Yes Private Firewall is an excellent application. I prefer it over PC Tools.
I guess so…I has a registry change notifier and other options more than Pctools I guess!!
Well i would recommend Outpost Firewall, i have used it before, and no problems with it. I just haven’t installed it yet, because i was waiting for a full win 7 software. But now it is full compatible with win 7 in all flavors. By the way, if you use avast with Outpost Firewall, i recommend to disable Outpost Firewall realtime scanner, because it will slow down avast.
I had her using Outpost Free, but it’s UI was too dumbed down and inflexible IMHO. I haven’t tried Private Firewall. I’ll take it for a spin in a VM. Thanks for the suggestions, but this is starting to veer off-topic.
At Magician and Pinnacle:
With Privatefirewall have you not noticed that some tray pop-ups have a default ‘allow after x seconds’ policy? If so, don’t you care?
Am also looking for a change from PCTools on 64bit, but the above really bothers me…
brgds
mack
I recommend using the training period when first using Privatefirewall.
Hello rdmaloyjr,
Well, the default ‘allow after x seconds’ is a bit like having a training period for the complete life span of the firewall, is it not?
I don’t really want that.
brgds
mack
I use Avast Free 5.0.396 with PCTFW 6.0.0.88.
Using Avast is still resulting in random freezes on my computer.
Could it have something to do with PCTFW? 
I’ve got the same combo you do (in the body of your message, that is) and have no problems.
I do note in your sig, though, that you’re using the paid/resident version of MBAM, and by now it’s pretty obvious that that’s a problem with avast 5. Alwil’s still working on that one, and you’ll see Vlk’s started a new sticky on that specific problem.
Until they can come up with a solution, I’d suggest disabling the resident protection of your MBAM as the very first thing to try. That seems to have worked for most users.
Just to test Private Firewall I uninstalled PCTFP and installed Private Firewall with the training period as someone suggested here and what I can see is that navigation is faster in comparation with PCTFP, if it continues like this and gives me no problems I guess it would be a good Firewall Option, the computer starts faster and everything is running smooth right now.
I went to see the rates in Matousec.com
http://www.matousec.com/projects/proactive-security-challenge/results.php
What I can see now is that Private Firewall 7, the new versión is free with and has much more features than
PCTFP, I hope that PF do better in the next testing since I see version 6 had a 10 + very good