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I decided to dig a bit deeper into Private Firewall, it does work. It isn't being supported any longer? It hasn't been certified by MS for Win 10, but it does work with Win 10. It is not signature based, so the firewall should continue to work in XP indefinitely.

It passes all test that I tried with with it. Shields Up, etc.

The use simple file sharing I unchecked. But other wise I do not have any sharing program or chat programs because I do not trust them.

I can see from the router page the Mac address for the Ooma and I can look at the Ooma setup page for more info.
http://support.ooma.com/home/accessing-your-device-settings.
Had page I seen the other day from Ooma that let me see the phone and setting I seen only that one time and now I can not fine it. Be something like the router setup page. Maybe I need to try again because it may be down now at night. This is not working http://setup.ooma.com

So will look again later.

The P2P may have been preconfigured or setup by your service provider.

I think you have to go directly from your computer to the home connection on the Ooma to see the internal settings.

If there running, they will probably be located in your task bar by the clock. Right click the icons and you should have the option to exit. This doesn't resolve the problem, it is just temporary. I really don't recommend p2p programs. Utorrrent I believe is set to automatically start with your computer, and the others may be as well.

I learned this from experience when one of daughters was running it and I couldn't figure why my router was being pinged constantly. It was uninstalled by me rather quickly.

You probably have an option in the programs, to disable starting when Windows start. You need to not have them in your Windows startup running every time the computer is turned on.

The real answer is not to use them, just uninstall them, but I don't tell people what they can and can't use. It's your choice.

Some of your pinging could be the VOIP service, don't know for sure.

With your single modem/router configuration, you pretty much have to be behind the router and it's firewall. Sorry I missed where you posted your modem/router model in the previous post.

Pretty much what you need to do and I have used VOIP with this is to setup a Port  forwarding on your router. This will allow your phone service to be outside of the the firewall and filter it to your Ooma hub. I would do this before putting in the DMZ setup.

6.1.2  Port forwarding Page 55

http://setuprouter.com/router/technicolor/tc8305c/manual-1246.pdf

You need to know the Ooma hubs ip address and which ports to unblock. That means going into the setup page for Ooma Hub and setting a (static) permanent ip. There telling you to set a static IP for the Ooma, a IP address that never changes. The UDP/TCP is going to be like starting 53 and ending at 30000. This allows the VOIP to run without the firewall interfering.

An example of a router is IP 192.168.0.1, than your sub IP addresses would be 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.100  This is where your computers wired or wireless connect to. You have to set the Ooma Hub to say for example to a static IP address 192.168.0.60 this means it will always connect at that IP address. I don't know what your IP addresses are specifically.

http://support.ooma.com/home/advanced-connections-and-service-ports

Run your computer directly to the router, not the Ooma hub if you use port forwarding.

It's not as complicated as may think, the settings have to match.

Sophos now offers a Windows solutio as well.

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/lp/sophos-home.aspx

They do require registration for Home users. This also allows you to manage all of your devices or families devices in one place, up to ten from your browser.               

Current Version Stable is 45.3.0

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/

or here

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all/

I would recheck your router settings. I don't know your specific router, but you should have a option for WAN Ping Blocking. Every router with a Nat firewall I have ever seen has this option somewhere. It may just reference block pings, etc. It's usually found under advance features of the routers firewall settings.

I always block or disallow UPNP and remote management if it is available.

I have always preferred both hardware (router) or standalone and software firewalls.

Always change the router password, username is optional (Usually Admin), but never leave it as just a factory default password.

P.S.  Make sure your router firmware is up to date as well. Always restart your a router after changes have been made, it sometimes requires unplugging and plugging back in..

It's hard to believe, today is 15 years and it seems just as vivid, like yesterday.

Version 3.10 worked with the edge browser initially. The last edge updates now blocks any typing input into the web address bar, with KeyScrambler turned on. If you have a web search page open it will drop it into the browser search engine.

It's simply blocking any web address input.