Eddie and David,
Thanks for the info. (Ed, the pictures are worth 1,000 words!).
I still had trouble until I totally disabled Zone Alarm. The the update seemed to work, and the VRDB, too.
I restarted ZA, and everything still seems OK.
Is Avast! really this good? How can they give it away? I really only started to try it because I am having no end of trouble with Norton System Works 2005 Premier. I'm thinking that I'll just use Norton SW for some housekeeping, and stick with Avast! for AV.
Thanks again for your help.
Vince