Maybe I should jump in and clarify. In an earlier posting which might have been overlooked, I said I’d ditched my ZA and replaced it with Comodo (and thanks for numerous recommendations for that) since the latter works quite well and doesn’t suffer from the new bloatware that’s been added to ZA. I do agree that security software should be kept as up to date as possible, but I ain’t gonna stay with ZA since CheckPoint seems to have abandoned the wants of users who’ve faithfully used it and recommended it for years.
CheckPoint apparently still has to learn one of the most critical parts of marketing: abandonment is a two-way street, which is essentially what I’d said in my first posting here.
As for my level of “expertise”, sure, I’ve been on computers for something like 20 years now. But while I was considered an expert back in DOS days, since Win became the actual operating system I’m just another point-and-click-and-pray user. 
