OK, I have been having a hard time (along with many others - P2P apps won't connect ) trying to connect to P2P network, specifically to a gnutella network. Without going into details of that problem (go to that thread for those details), I recently noticed something odd during a recent restart. During the boot, I noticed something that I don't think I noticed there before, labeled (if I recall correctly) IP Firewall Extension. I don't have firewall software (that I know of) nor an I running the firewall from the system. Where did this come from? I tried running a basic search but found nothing. Could this be causing the problem or is this normal?