Is your/my Nvidia Firewall working

Question

I have the Nvidia Firewall installed. I have tried it on 2 default settings, Medium(recommended) and High. However when I go into "Firewall-Information" the Graphical, Bar Graph and Table always show under Packets + Connections "Total Allowed and Total Blocked" as 0(0%). Surely at the high setting(and even medium) there would be some statistics. Even under the "table" graph -Firewall Basic Statistics- shows a 0 value for all entries. Does this mean the firewall is not working correctly and if so what steps can I take to check and see if I have it installed properely and get it working.
O.K. guys I answered this one myself. For anyone interested the Nvidia Firewall appears to be very, very good.(bye bye Zone Alarm). I logged onto grc.com and ran their shields-up app. These were the results:
File Sharing:
Your Internet port 139 does not appear to exist!
One or more ports on this system are operating in FULL STEALTH MODE!
Standard Internet behavior requires port connection attempts to be answered with a success or refusal response. Therefore, only an attempt to connect to a nonexistent computer results in no response of either kind. But YOUR computer has DELIBERATELY CHOSEN NOT TO RESPOND (that's very cool!) which represents advanced computer and port stealthing capabilities. A machine configured in this fashion is well hardened to Internet NetBIOS attack and intrusion.
Unable to connect with NetBIOS to your computer.
All attempts to get any information from your computer have FAILED. (This is very uncommon for a Windows networking-based PC.) Relative to vulnerabilities from Windows networking, this computer appears to be VERY SECURE since it is NOT exposing ANY of its internal NetBIOS networking protocol over the Internet.
Common Ports + All Service Ports:
Your system has achieved a perfect "TruStealth" rating. Not a single packet — solicited or otherwise — was received from your system as a result of our security probing tests. Your system ignored and refused to reply to repeated Pings (ICMP Echo Requests). From the standpoint of the passing probes of any hacker, this machine does not exist on the Internet. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system wisely remained silent in every way. Very nice.
Well done Nvidia(+MSI). This is very encouraging.

Answer 1

You just copied and pasted those results from my post Joking. But seriously I have run shields-up previously and the test did report ports open or at least visible as far as I can remember. It was on a previous system and it prompted me to install Zone Alarm at the time. (However I suspect the winxp firewall and other patches released might also have had some effect). In fact it was my experience with Zone Alarm that had me concerned about the firewall logs from the nvidia firewall. At the click of a button ZL gave up a ton of information about probes malicious and otherwise. It was a good thing it was easy to adjust the settings as sometimes the amount of info was overkill. However I am also experiencing(like others here) a few web sites that I cannot connect to with the nvidia firewall active. Strange thing is if I connect to hotmail first I can access them then through msn, which leads me to believe the firewall is indeed active and working although I suspect I will need to do some tinkering with the default settings and set up a custom setting to suite me. I supose the jury is still out but it does appear that the hardware firewall at least has a lot of potential.