Hello Velma, Monday, March 8, 2010, 9:45:37 PM, you wrote: VF> Then when I got a new computer I decided I'd try again, and I VF> couldn't even download it without buying something.  I don't call VF> that "free". What you are doing is clicking on the 'Try for free' button which is a link to an affiliate company that you buy something from and in return you get to use the paid version of Zone Alarm for one year. After that you have to purchase an annual licence. A few vendors are using this trick to get users to sign up and I don't agree with it either, it's underhand at best and if challenged in a court it would probably be deemed illegal !! The totally free version of Zone Alarm is still there but they just hide it well though not actually remove from view. Again a little underhand but you can't blame them for not promoting the free version as strongly. I'd prefer it if there was a plain link that says choose the free version or paid and that was it :-) The direct link to the free download is below but note that during the install it also gives the option to use the free trial paid version instead - just read what it says on the page and stick with the free and it will work. http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-pc-security-free-firewall.htm Note that every update also has this promoting the free trial paid version so again check carefully and click to continue with the free one instead. -- Best regards, Barry mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.10'Karmic'

Thank you, Woody and Barry for your very informative replies!  You are both so helpful! Velma ----- Original Message ---- From: Barry <barry@yobunny.co.uk> To: Velma Finley <senior-newbie@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tue, March 9, 2010 4:36:24 AM Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] Program conflict? Hello Velma, Monday, March 8, 2010, 9:45:37 PM, you wrote: VF> Then when I got a new computer I decided I'd try again, and I VF> couldn't even download it without buying something.  I don't call VF> that "free". What you are doing is clicking on the 'Try for free' button which is a link to an affiliate company that you buy something from and in return you get to use the paid version of Zone Alarm for one year. After that you have to purchase an annual licence. A few vendors are using this trick to get users to sign up and I don't agree with it either, it's underhand at best and if challenged in a court it would probably be deemed illegal !! The totally free version of Zone Alarm is still there but they just hide it well though not actually remove from view. Again a little underhand but you can't blame them for not promoting the free version as strongly. I'd prefer it if there was a plain link that says choose the free version or paid and that was it :-) The direct link to the free download is below but note that during the install it also gives the option to use the free trial paid version instead - just read what it says on the page and stick with the free and it will work. http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-pc-security-free-firewall.htm Note that every update also has this promoting the free trial paid version so again check carefully and click to continue with the free one instead. -- Best regards, Barry                          mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.10'Karmic' ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SENIOR-NEWBIE ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SENIOR-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message