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Shenan Stanley typed:
stan wrote:
Hello Gentle People,

I run Windows XP. SP3. New Avast 5 (free edition) Anti
Virus, SuperAntispyware, Spyware Blaster and Malwarebytes.
I don't know whether Avast and Windows Firewall may have
conflicts buit I have recently noticed that at bootup
Avast appears with a warning that the system is
unprotected. No firewall is on. Then Windows firewall
kicks in with a warning from Security Center that No
firewall is on then after about an unduly long period of
thirty seconds, sometimes quite shorter. I have never
experienced this unusual behaviour before. It has become a
nuisance problem. I am thankful for any advice and/or suggestions with a
view to finding a solution to this problem as it severely
lengthens the bootup.

....

... I wouldn't keep
it running all the time (unless you bought it.)

Who cares what YOU might do? WHY you might consider something could be
useful, but what you said is pretty much nothing there.

I don't know for sure, but I suspect you are going in the wrong direction
here. The actual problem is more basic than your suggestions cover. IMO.


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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP