okay yeah i think that's what happened, i think comodo was running along side with avast. but man, talk about a conflict. i only keep avast as my active AV program and disable the other ones. but i guess i screwed up in this instance. hmm, well i did want a better firewall and an extra tool to add to my computer as a second opinion malware scanner like hitman pro. i have malwarebytes too, i use both when i think something might need to be checked. i downloaded comodo because two of the features i wanted was killswitch and comodos firewall. but craigb told me for the layman to unintall comodo and just use avast with windows 7 firewall. after the system restore all thats left of comodo is the install file, so it took care of that for me.