Yeah, it's me again. My firewall just expired and now I cannot connect to the internet anymore. When I first turn on my laptop it will either:
a. Freeze and crash
b. Come up with a "Renew your eTrust Security Suite now" message and after you click it, it crashes
c. Same message, no crash, you click on it, but I can't connect to the internet so I can't renew it.

What do I do?
It;s not the internet because I am connected on another computer without etrust but something else.
(Running on XP SP2)

PS Our desktop's security suite also expired and experiences the exact same issues.
I have loads of work to do on the computer while this computer I am on right now is with my dad at work. So I need to ressolve this issue quickly.

Chapter 5
Curse of the Sony Vaio laptop continues

I reeally like CA anti virus and have been using it for years. It's dependable,  takes little sys resourses, will not slow a dys down, and is updated frequently.

However, the CA security suite is garbage IMO.
I tried it the last time my CA AV expired and wound up uninstalling it and just reinstalling the AV.

The CA Firewall, anti spam/spyware, etc are buggy and seem to take control over your sys.

So, I installed "Comodo Firewall" (freeware) and it is fantastic. I highly recomend it.
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

As far as "spyware and spam", the freeware version of Ad-Aware and a bit of common sense will take care of that.