FAO Pipexer - Sunbelt Firewall

I had SPF installed which was working, then I read your post here

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/showthreaded.php?Bo...

Choose advanced during install, and then in configuration disable HIPS (not highly needed and only on paid version) and disable all the stuff in "Web" and you are good to go!

Decided to give it a go. Uninstalled and reinstalled selecting Advanced. It appeared to install OK as I started being bombarded with popups. I clicked permit until they all went away. I then found I couldn't connect to the internet. Plus windows was telling me it wanted to install drivers for "Found new hardware".

In view of the above I uninstalled, restarted the lappy and tried to install again accepting the default setting. It gets so far through then I get an "Error already installed" box. On clicking OK the install is rolled back.

Any suggestions?.

I have managed to recover full use by doing a system restore.

That's a shame, I have seen what you descrive occur very rarely with the latest versions (since they rewrote it for vista). It mostly seems to occur if you do not fully uninstall a previous version (i.e., not restarting inbetween or just installing over the top). I have sometimes caused it on peoples PC's when not restarting in a rush, so I take my time now

Seems you got it sorted now but for future referance normally this program sorts it out if this problem does occur: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ihs/SPFClean.exe

Sorry about that!

Edited by Pipexer (Mon 16-Mar-09 16:09:37)

Sorry about that!

Not at all, not your fault I was just wondering if it had been seen before. I'm happy with the way it's working on default install so I think I'll leave it as is.

Thanks for the info.