isotobin@identicalimagepleez.org wrote:
> I just loaded Avira Antivir free and it's hard to tell whether it's better
> than Avast. I know some have said that it catches more in tests, but I see
> that there's a conflict with Zone Alarm. Avira's guard creates a service
> that in turn creates a loopback to port 18350. This causes the Zone Alarm
> icon to always reflect internet activity. Is there a fix for this?

Well, we live and learn. I've been running Alvira and ZA for a while and
only after reading your post did I noticed that of which you complain.
Since it never bothered me before and I can't see any cpu activity by
either app when idle and I like both apps I'm just going to ignore it
unless there is a fix which of course I will test. If it really bothers
you, Avast remains a very close 2nd to Avira. I could be happy with
either one.
Dave Cohen