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Allow me to correct you. BitDefender announces it's expiration 30 days in advance. Practically, in the last 30 days of the license, BD's behavior is just the same as the trial period: everytime it starts, you are notified with the remaining period. That is quite simply not correct. I may well have got a message 30 days…

Hi ozziepaul Follow these instructions to be sure that you have uninstalled zonealarm completely: http://forums.zonealarm.com/zonelabs/board...;message.id=103 Because remaints of a firewall could cause conflicts with another firewall. Check in comodo also this : http://forums.comodo.com/help/current_24_s...es-t5695.0.html…

Hi ozziepaul You can try this unplug the power cable of your adsl modem for 5 minutes to let it cool down. Afterwards put the power cable back in. Zonealarm could interfer with your internet. Try to temporary disable zonealarm. Try after that if your internet works again. BitDefender without firewall can't block internet.…

Hi ozziepaul Yes I mean that there is a category of malware that is called jokes. The difference is they don't real do harm to a system. All other malware is written to cause damage on pc's. That's why other excutables are called viruses,trojan horses,spyware,.... Pskill is sometimes legit installed but in most chances…

Softwin (BitDefender) isn't the only antivirusvendor that reports jokes. Sometimes also called riskware. To give an example of a nasty joke pskill. When that is executed windows will countdown and then shut down. Except if you open a word file so you can bypass it. So it's a good thing. Regards Niels Thanks for the…

Thanks, Gary. I can't be bothered playing ping pong with BD. I'll retrieve my stuff and write it to CD. I find it rather amusing that BD quarantines two unharmful programs but forces me to turn off email scanning.

Thank you both for that info. This does not impress me at all. To say that jokes "might" contain nasties is fine; the same can be said about any executable! That's why we have AV programs. I think I should be the one to decide whether or not I want to keep unharmful stuff.

[G'day Nifty. I have just torn out my few remaining hairs in the past two+ days with a similar, but worse, problem. After BD's update a few days ago, I could no longer receive any email. Sending no problem. Eventually I worked out this was an undocumented feature in BD. I turned off scanning incoming email - problem…