Scribblings from the Mitchy Side

Heh... no "a-squared" is the company name.

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/free/

It's basically an anti-virus, anti-malware program. It scans for problematic file traces as well as possibly malicious browser cookies and all.

I upped to the paid version when I got rid of asquared due to the firewall incompatibility. I forget the exact difference of the free versus paid versions, but the free one did flag several "key stroke grabbing" programs that had gotten inserted onto my computer back when I was using macafee.

I believe if you look around through the zone alarm multitude of google links you'll find a fully free firewall. that or you can keep a certain level of the firewall even after the expiration --- I have several friends that run the free version only as their firewalls.