Yesterday I was told by ZoneAlarm that ashMaiSv.exe wanted 'net access and that it had changed, I checked this site and it doesn't mention that this component should need access. The components ZoneAlarm has listed as having asked previously for access are:
avast! antivirus service (ashServ.exe)
avast! e-Mail Scanner Service (ashMaiSv.exe)
avast.setup
The version of ashMaiSv is 4, 1, 334, 0
It asked for access a considerable time after I had updated, shouldn't it have asked for access the next reboot after updating?