I know a few of our members (or at least one) don't believe in software firewalls, like Zone Alarm... I could be a convert today.
I have run Zone Alarm for years without a problem, but installing the latest update really messed things up.
First I thought my internet connection went bad, but it was only my PC. After putzing around, I finally realized it had to be the new version of ZA--but it was near impossible to stop it or uninstall it. In the meantime, thinking my LAN interface had died, I put in a wireless card I had laying around--that worked fine.
I may have gone through a few interations of the above...
Finally did a web search, and found that version 8 is a cluster--so now I'm just using Windows firewall... AVG did the same thing with their latest version--it was useless... and I switched to a different anti-virus program...
This could all be caused by my purchase of the Acer Aspire One today... ?