I had Zone Alarm & Threatfire both on this same computer before all the SP3 and my partition clean up fiasco.... they worked great then.
- the only system change has been that I had to format the drive, reinstall XP and start from scratch with all the updates and such.

I couldn't use ZA again until I got the updates - so I was using free Avast, free Comodo, free superantispyware and the free threatfire - those were the ones I removed that fixed the updates problem. disabling them didn't work, had to uninstall them and then I ran ccleaner to be sure all traces were gone.


New question..
does anyone know if it is normal to have duplicates in the regedit - the root part?
it will show
name
name.1
on quite a few of the things on the list...


Also my sounds have not worked since the reinstall- just the annoying "beep"!
Haven't tried to redo the drivers since I got the upgrades - so I'll try that..


{i download a lot of stuff to try out, but mostly from known/safe sites}