Actually the local firewall is disabled. I am thinking it might have something to do with the vpn software that is installed as that creates network shims. Or it could be that my house has an enterprise firewall deployed (Checkpoint). Let me dig through those logs. Ok looked through the firewall logs. Looks like it might be the -------------- [removed by Fiery] line as Checkpoint identifies that as somemthing out of the Tracur familiy of malware and is blocking it. So I unblocked that, but if I may make a suggestion, I would add a timeout or something to that function so if a corporate style firewall blocks it, it does not crash the software.
Success. I added an exception to the firewall malware detection and aida now does not crash. Thanks for the help, and hopefullyh in the future this wont crash Aida.
Take care!