Tarun

A lot of people have recently switched to Outpost Pro and found it far superior to ZAP. Avast is doing better in tests at detecting and removing viruses and other related malware than eTrust, which has missed several items.

Krit is right, installing the VB6 Runtimes may resolve the issue.

sweepee means that there is no D:\Recycled\

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/136517/EN-US/ Information from Microsoft about the Recycle Bin

It's the Windows Recycle Bin. C:\RECYCLER\ is the recycle bin. The contents are things you have sent to the recycle bin already.

MP has been talking highly of it on Lunarsoft.net and I believe he's going to stick with it.

Agreed, an instant update would be very helpful.

Outpost Free runs fine on XP and it doesn't bloat down the system like ZAP does either. The interface of ZAP is clunky and slow. They skinned it way back in 2.0 and they never fixed some of the issues with the skins, causing it to slow down the application dramatically. Just trying to load the programs window takes a while. Arovax Shield is, well. I don't like any of it. It seems like a half assed attempt at a real time spyware protection agent and it constantly nags about even the smallest changes. Don't bother running it when you install known safe installations; it will nag about new entries to startup alone four times or more, even once you tell it that it's okay and safe. The spyware is, well. Good thing it's a beta, cause I find it to be a joke.

Seems rather monotone all throughout.

ATI offers their own driver cleanup utility, I'd aim for that one.

It's really awesome cause you don't have to open IE to download say, Windows Defender. It's been out since November 17, 2005. You can read more about the initial release here.

ZoneAlarm Pro has been terribly buggy since v2.0. A firewall isn't going to keep spyware out, but it can stop it from doing what it wants. Common sense will keep spyware out. If you download and get spyware it can often alert you to the location and such. The latest Outpost Pro firewall is killer, it checks (literally scans) the file accessing the Internet to tell you if spyware is detected. ZoneAlarm Pro is slow and bloated, if you're on a low speed (such as dial-up) connection; pages will load slowly. I changed from ZoneAlarm Pro to Outpost Pro when I was on dial-up and after the quick, easy change; websites loaded extremely fast. There was no code injections like ZAP did, it blocked ads with a transparent image and allowed you to add to the list. It's one of those changes where there is no going back!

If you do, please let us know. Who knows, hopefully it'll be made in Delphi!

Slim is english language only. Basic supports languages worldwide without the toolbar.

Agreed 100%.

How would you feel about Yahoo Toolbar in DAF?

I concur.

I agree. I switched to 7-zip from WinRAR and I like it a lot. Just wish you could compress to rar format.

You scored as James Bond, Agent 007. James Bond is MI6's best agent, a suave, sophisticated super spy with charm, cunning, and a license's to kill. He doesn't care about rules or regulations and somewhat amoral. He does care about saving humanity though, as well as the beautiful women who fill his world. Bond has expensive tastes, a wide knowledge of many subjects, and his usually armed with a clever gadget and an appropriate one-liner. James Bond, Agent 007 --- 71% The Terminator --- 67% Neo, the "One" --- 58% Maximus --- 54% William Wallace --- 50% Indiana Jones --- 50% Batman, the Dark Knight --- 46% The Amazing Spider-Man --- 38% Lara Croft --- 33% Captain Jack Sparrow --- 29% El Zorro --- 17%

Great suggestion krit. There's also DjLizard's Dial-a-fix which can reinstall and repair the Help & Support Center. Dial-a-fix

Avoid that like it's the plague. There are so many false positives it's amazingly stupid. I have a shortcut to a folder on my desktop. A simple .lnk file. It told me this was a keylogger trojan.

Or at Wendy's you buy a chili, you want the chili; not chili with a human thumb. (I know I know, it was all a fake scam)

Working on this end. Perhaps there is something in your Windows Update log that can provide some further information?

Workaround for the installer bug if you are not running non-English Windows version: (Start -> Run...) net localgroup Users /add Install WindowsDefender.msi. (Start -> Run...) net localgroup Users /delete

Yep, I think it's amusing too. See what happens when you do bad things?