So far so good, I did a clean install of Avast 5 on one machine and i'm still poking around the settings. Doing a full scan just to try it out while typing this, seems pretty light on resources which is obviously a good thing.
So disabling the Windows 7 firewall is not a good idea huh? I might be installing Windows 7 soon on one of my machines. I'm planning on using a free firewall to monitor outbound connections with logging so I might use Comodo. I was using Sygate 5.6(doesn't work with Vista and later Windows OSes) with XP with the Windows firewall turned off, i'm also behind a router, but I like to see what is trying to get out and Sygate has excellent logs. I was able to setup logging with the Windows 7 firewall when I tried the RC but I didn't like the way it was implemented. Just wondering if besides IPsec if anything else is effected if I disable the Windows firewall.