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I have Sunbelt PFW installed on 4 PCs (along with VIPRE) on an internal gigabit switched network and am seeing *very* slow file transfer and file transfers that suddenly drop without warning due to SPFW on the receiving PC treating the file transfer as an attack.

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The PCs are 2 x WinXP SP3, 2 x WinVista32, and they all have the correct "trusted" network properties set up in SPFW.

Copying small files across the network is slow - Windows Explorer in Vista on the host PC reports file copy across the network at 5 mb/sec when SPFW is running, but this jumps to 13 MB/sec when SPFW it is disabled on the recipient PC and 20 mb/sec when disabled on the host PC as well.

Worse than this are the random dropouts - file transfers suddenly drop without warning, seemingly due to SPFW on the recipient PC believing the file transfer to be suspicious network activity.

The log on the recipient PC shows the following "[denied]" activity at the time the network connections are silently dropped:

NETBIOS SMB-DS DCERPC LSASS DsRolerUpgradeDownlevelServer exploit attempt
NETBIOS SMB DCERPC LSASS DsRolerUpgradeDownlevelServer exploit attempt

(I have VIPRE installed with latest updates on all 4 PCs, so would hope this is not actually suspicious activity, but rather SPFW thinking the file transfer is a false positive).

Please advise how to set up the SPFW and VIPRE on all 4 PCs so as to achieve the best functioning internal network - right now these PCs can't talk to each other.

Thanks for your help

I am running VIPRE and SBPF with Outlook 2007 - every time I send an email, Outlook reports "Sending message X of Y"with Y being one more than the number of emails I have written.

For example if there are 2 emails waiting to be sent, Outlook status will show "Sending message 2 of 3".

I have uninstalled Outlook and the status messages go back to normal... Any ideas?

One of my email accounts operates via SSL (sending/receiving) so I have unchecked email protection (Outlook would hang otherwise, even though I specified the ports both sending & receiving ran on. I have seen the "tip" about blanking out the port numbers in VIPRE but haven't tried this yet).

I have a Lenovo laptop, Series 3000 C100, Model 0761-3HG with XP Pro SP3.

I was previously running Norton Internet Security 2008 alongside Counterspy (latest release) but seeing as my Norton subscription was coming to an end (and I read such good things about VIPRE), I bought an unlimited home license for both VIPRE and SPF.

HOWEVER, SPF does not seem to play well at all with the wireless adapter on my Lenovo laptop (Driver: Broadcom Wireless LAN Driver Version 4.10.47.2).

With wi-fi already on and working fine, installing SPF on the laptop reboots with no internet connection - the radio is on, the adapter is enabled, but it cannot find a network. I even added the network manually (choosing the Broadcom Wireless adapter) by IP & netmask - but nothing.

If I select "Repair", or try to disable the adapter (or anything else to do with the adapter, like uninstall from Device Manager), the machine locks up.

However if I uninstall SPF, my wifi connection magically comes back.

If I then disable the wireless adapter and turn off the wifi radio, THEN install SPF, I get a dialog box asking me if this is a trusted network - I click "yes", and get my wifi connection back (hurrah!).

However it's a short-lived victory - when I reboot, I have nothing again.

Each time I install I'm using the "Advanced" setting.

I have lost most of my weekend messing around trying to get this to work - am close to giving up... Currently waiting for an XP System Restore point to restore and thought I'd give this forum another go.

PS. Is it right that VIPRE uses 60-80% CPU when running a scan? It seems to do this across the PCs I have installed it on at home so far - Vista Ultimate 32bit, Win XP Pro SP2...

Thanks for any help,

Chris