Gillie2tat, you are very correct about running two firewalls. That’s worst think you could do… same thing with running two antiviruses in the same time on the same machine (actually, only if both have resident shields running), but in case with Windows SP2 built in firewall, it really doesn’t matter. You can freely enable it, and run another external firewall, that’s actually, what Microsoft advise their users. Windows SP2 has just inbound protection, so having some full product sitting next to SP2 firewall is very much desired.

I run Sygate free version 5.6 with SP2 without any single problems… I know for some other people, and they also don’t have any problems with it…

Cheers !

P.S. This time I really think, his problems is connected to the fact that all of them (many people with ACTSKIN4.OCX problems) runs preinstalled version of Windows…