[nygoose]

I have installed Spy Bot-Search and Destroy as well as
Spy Guard and Spy Blaster. When I first installed these three programs, I had Zone Alarm Pro installed as well. Everything was fine until Spy Bot Search and Destroy told me to uninstall Zone Alarm Pro. I did uninstall Zone Alarm Pro and left the other three programs running.</P>Niw I am getting a lot of pop-up ads. Are these three programs running correctly? If not, is there a way for these three programs to stop pop-up ads?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

What I was running until I got a hardware firewall was:

• Zone Alarm (free version)
• SpyBot S&D
• Pop Up Stopper (Freeware)

Get rid of Spy Guard and Spy Blaster. You don't need them. Keep your Zone Alarm installed no matter what. That protection is top priority, especially if you use a cable modem or DSL. Perhaps you should install the Spybot S&D first, then the Zone Alarm and then the Pop Up Stopper.

Spybot S&D shouldn't tell you to uninstall the Zone Alarm. It might find it in a search and see it as spyware for some reason but if so you can just exclude it from future searches. Or if it DOES have a problem with Zone Alarm Pro, perhaps you can download and install the Free version of ZA.