Yes, you have to view the page in compatibility mode of IE to see the whole thing. I didn’t mention that because I didn’t know if it would be a problem in other browsers as well.

I decided to try the free version of Windows 7 Firewall Control and I must say I like it a lot. It provides full two way filtering with none of the annoying HIPS or HIPS like junk of other firewalls. It was just what I was looking for. It’s a little annoying to have to tell it what to do on first access of every program, but after that it works very well and does not seem to have any impact on the system at all.

Also, they told me at the PC Tools forum that the reason why rules were not being created for some apps was because of the way the Web Shield in Avast works. They told me to disable the Shield which I am absolutely not willing to do. I can’t recommend their product for 64 bit systems at all unless they fix the issue in a future update.