Originally Posted By: Dave Davidson1
What in the dickens is Zone Alarm?

It's a firewall. Their freeware firewall is pretty popular. I enlisted Zone Alarm freeware firewall when I left dial-up behind and came on board with DSL. It has served me very well. I haven't noticed any conflicts between Z-A and the forum, but maybe cuz I only use the freeware. I still use IE as my browser; I'm still gettin' up the nerve and the time to pull the trigger on Firefox .