Have you experienced a TWS forced disconnect

[ctrlbrk]

I am looking for feedback from people who have experienced a very particular event within NinjaTrader.

While running NT, and connected to TWS:
- NT indicates "green" (good) connection to TWS
- TWS working good in background, no errors, is showing new price data on screen
- You attempt to place a trade in NT. After about 5-7 seconds, NT pops up and says "TWS has forced your connection closed".

If you have experienced this, can you please answer the poll option above, as well as post the following:

Operating System
NT version
TWS version
Anti-virus software
Firewall software
(and any other info you believe relevant)

Thank you!

Mike

[ctrlbrk]

I'll go first. Yes, I have experienced it and am working with NT to resolve it. They say no one else has experienced this, and believe it is attributed to my configuration/PC/software, etc. I would like to get to the bottom of this if possible.

Operating System: Windows Vista x64 SP1
NT version: NT 6.5.1000.8
TWS version: 887.2
Anti-virus software: Avast Home Edition
Firewall software: Vista embedded, enabled, exceptions added for NinjaTrader application and Java/TWS.