so im not the only one that hates norton... sweet. I have used Zone Alarm in the past, its fine, its not the best, not the worst, but for being free, its fine personally, i use Windows Firewall. I dont seem to have any trouble with it... I know ur all going to say Windows Firewall prolly sucks, but for me its fine (since anywhere i have gone, i have always had a network firewall as well) I use Sophos AV. It's good, simple, and doesnt take up much CPU.