I unfortunately just tried Ashampoo. I uninstalled Comodo, just to try it and see how it was. It seemed fine till I connected to the internet. Internet Explorer kept freezing up. If I clicked on a link, the hour glass would set there for about 30 seconds, then the "end program" screen would appear. I would have to close and restart IE. Then I went to Shields Up, it failed the tests. I have never had that happen and I have tried about all the firewalls available. I uninstalled it immediately. I'm sort of in a flux over firewalls at this point. I used Kerio till it started conflicting with Avast causing the ghost images that there have been so many threads about. I liked Comodo Beta, but it irritated me to death. Several times a day it would pop up and ask for permission for IE to access internet as server. I even gave it full access but the pop ups didn't stop. I went to hippo files and downloaded a slightly older version of Kerio that I'm using right now. I still don't understand it, I installed Ewido since the last time I had Kerio. For some reason when it updated it didn't ask for access, likewise another antispy program accessed the internet for updates and it didn't ask for permission. I'm actually thinking of going back to ZA.