Nope - I have nothing significant to add, except to refer Jim to
http://basconotw.mvps.org/SymRem.htm for details of the long process of
de-Norton yourself. (obviously not necessary if a clean install is
contemplated).

There have been a number of complaints about bloating of Zone Alarm, and it
slowing down systems markedly - I have no real evidence that this is caused
by the program itself, rather than by misconfiguration, or action of
malware, but just raise it as a point to note. If you're running ME on a PC
behind a NAT router, then a software firewall is really surplus to
requirements, unless you have reason to try to segregate machines on a
network.


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"Mike M" wrote in message
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A significant number of users have found that recent versions of Zone Alarm
can prevent the creation of automatic system restore checkpoints, primarily
because it appears to fool the state manager into "believing" that the
system is never idle. Avast used to have a similar problem but that was
fixed about a month ago.

ccleaner, no problems but if you have it configured to "clean at boot"
this can cause the loss of system restore checkpoints.

I'm unaware of any issues with AdAware or PestPatrol.

If Noel Paton sees your message he may be able to add further comments.
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Mike Maltby



Jim N wrote:

I also use Adware, Zonelabs, ccleaner and pest patrol. Do you know of
any conflicts with these and ME? I might as well get rid of the
garabage and start with a clean reinstall of ME.