I spend all day today trying to get PrivateFirewall to run with Avast 6. Multiple unistall and reinstalls of both with no sucess. PF runs just fine w/o Avast 6. Install Avast 6 and PF GUI is borked. Nothing new here since this has been discussed at length in prior postings.
Installed ver. of Norton AV 2012 I had laying around and all is fine. Amazing how much faster my Internet is now with NAV 2012.
Will revisit Avast again in the future when they get it to work with PF.
I will say I will miss this forum. Great bunch of people here.
Will revisit Avast again in the future when they get it to work with PF
Why are you putting the blame on avast! It always takes two to tango.
Since you seem to be happy with your new AV, I hope you'll also be happy with their support forum.
Why are you putting the blame on avast! It always takes two to tango.
This issue has been known since ver. 6 came out. I even uninstalled Avast's behavior and network shields to no avail. I personally believe it's an issue with x64 OSes.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=73259.0
BTW - PrivateFirewall folks appear more than willing to be approached as an OEM firewall for Avast IS.
NIS super heavy, very demanding and as mentioned,Support Forum
First, I am running NAS not NIS on my Win 7 installation. As far as heavy goes, I have two ccsvchost.exe processes running that use 5K each. MBAM Pro service on the other hand is currently using 42K and I have seen it go upwards to 100K.
The old vers. of NIS and NAS were pigs for resouces, the new versions are the exact opposite.
I have NIS 2011 installed on my daughter’s clunker Compac desktop with single core AMD 939 Semperon processor, slow 80GB IDE HDD, and 768MB DDR333 memory and it runs just fine.
For what it is worth, what slows old/low resource PCs running NIS 2011/2012 is the disk optimization feature Norton turned on by default. Why they did that is beyond me. It is a Symantec HDD defrag utility than runs periodically; usually when you trying to do something processor intensive. If people are having performance problems with NIS, turn off that feature.
Actually, I never found Norton to be any heavier on resources than anything else, including Avast and I used Norton products exclusively from 2000-2009. My system never performed any better with other products and the only reason I switched was that I discovered that I could get equal protection for free. I also always found their support forums to be good. Not quite as good as here but still useful. Representatives from Symantec posted very frequently, probably more than the Avast guys do to be honest.
@DonZ63,
I highly doubt that you’ll convince anyone here to switch to Symantec.
Most of us here originally left Norton because it was using more of the computer than the user.
Despite the fact that the current versions have greatly improved, why would any one
in their right mind give up something that’s free and, is doing the job, for something that costs money. ???
If you’re using the paid version od avast!, I think it also does more for less so it’s still the
better choice.
Since you seem to be happy with the change that you’ve made, enjoy it but, don’t look for or expect
to find converts on this forum.
I highly doubt that you'll convince anyone here to switch to Symantec.
Not my intention.
However, I do think that a person should explore all the current facts before they start bashing a security product. These include recent AV cert lab tests plus professional and user reviews. Then make an intelligent and informed choice based on your individual requirements.
Sorry to see you leave, but this is somewhat a mystery. I ran Private Firewall on my laptop with Avast 6 and no problems whatsoever??? I am running 64 bit Windows 7 Duel Core. The issue IMO is not Avast by any means but with your PC I am sorry to say. And as for Norton I have a license for that and had tried it out…Norton is second to Avast also IMO…Norton is over rated. If you are stuck on Private Firewall contact their support,and let them figure out what is going on…it is NOT Avast fault.
Sorry to see you leave read your informative posts for awhile, Nav 2010-12 state of the art wish it was free this forum is way out of date on current AV solutions ie Nav/Norton 2005-2007 was the dregs but !!!
Sorry to see you leave, but this is somewhat a mystery. I ran Private Firewall on my laptop with Avast 6 and no problems whatsoever??? I am running 64 bit Windows 7 Duel Core. The issue IMO is not Avast by any means but with your PC I am sorry to say. And as for Norton I have a license for that and had tried it out.............Norton is second to Avast also IMO....Norton is over rated. If you are stuck on Private Firewall contact their support,and let them figure out what is going on.............it is NOT Avast fault.
I tired this combo multiple times trying every option I could thing of. If you check the link I posted previously in this thread, you will see I am not alone on this problem. I did work with PF tech support to no avail.
As someone pointed out, it very well could be hardware related. I am using an AMD quad core processor. I use the AMD SATA 6GB/s drivers versus the stock WIN 7 SATA drivers, etc. It does appear the Avast 6 and PrivateFirewall conbo works for some and not others. Unfortunately, the combo would not work on my Win7 x64 installation.
I definitely wanted a light firewall with HIPS that worked well with WIN 7 x64. PF fit that requirement. I originally had Comodo and Defense+ when I installed WIN 7 x64 but I saw enough to conclude Comodo not ready for WIN 7 x64 regardless of what Comodo claims. Also having used Comodo under XP on other PCs, I know from experience it will eventually take over your PC and bog down performance.
