Today I downloaded the 30-day trial of AIS 2010. After installing and working out a minor issue (thanks to the help of this forum!), I noticed that the Windows Firewall was still on. I don't know a lot about computers, but I've read that you're not supposed to have two firewalls running concurrently. So, I turned the Windows Firewall off. But now it says that I don't have a Firewall running at all. Apparently it's not recognizing the Avast Firewall -- which, when I open Avast, seems to be on and functioning properly. And I have this annoying Microsoft Security Alert that won't go away. I hate to tell it to just ignore the problem and I'll monitor the firewall myself, because it seems that it should be recognized by my system. I've never had a problem with this before on any other internet security product. I'm running Vista 32-bit, if that's important.
Any idea what's going on, and how I can fix it? Again, thanks for your help in advance!