>>It looks like since I have McAfee AV, the free version of ZA should work fine for me. My other concern is that when ZA pops a message of whether this or that program can access Internet, you have to make an informed decision. And this PC will be used by a wild <g> 14 yo (my daughter). She will have every possible IM on this PC in no time <g>, and she will be downloading every program recommended by her friends, so she will have hands full in monitoring the ZA.
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>I use the free version of ZA and it has a couple features that have not been mentioned here. When an alert comes up asking you to allow or deny, there is also an option to get information. It will go back to the ZA site and check it's database and give you additional help and even suggest whether it is ok to allow. Another feature is the ability to put sites, networks, etc into the trusted area. Once this is done, then no alerts for those places.
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>I also use SpyBot, Spyware Blaster and Avast! and have no problems at all now.
Thank you, Jay. I appreciate your input.
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