Hello Woody, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 3:43:31 AM, you wrote: Wac> I looked at the reviews for free Zone Alarm, and others say the Wac> "nag at boot-up" is the only time they're asked to buy stuff. There is an option to change the checking for updates from automatic to manual - with a big warning sign that says you are leaving your system open to attack. Not really so, all they want is to keep on nagging you to buy the full version <lol> Also notice that after a while this setting will switch back to automatic again, but it stops the nagging for a while ! -- Best regards, Barry mailto:[email protected] MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.10'Karmic'