Problems with Zone Alarm Antivirus dropping internet connection?

I am running a trial version of ZA antivirus, and have two main problems.

First, it will only allow network access if programme control is set to the less secure 'auto learn'. Once connected I can increase this to 'Max' but after a time it will drop the connection. I tried adding my ISP to the trusted network but it had no effect.

Second, the number of trial days left decreases with each reboot. It started off on 12 days (not 15) and after an hour I rebooted and it is now down to 11 days. No 24 hour period had elapsed, and my time and date settings are correct.

Thanks for any help or advice you may have.

Problems with Zone Alarm Antivirus dropping internet connection?norton antivirus

I thought I WAS THE ONLY one who had that. As soon as I uninstalled it I was fine.

I got rid of it and that is that. never had another internet connection problem again.

Problems with Zone Alarm Antivirus dropping internet connection?security

First of all Zone Alarm is not a proper anti virus. It is a firewall. So try to ignore using ZA. You may try Symantec as a reliable anti virus.
Hmm dump it and use AVG!
Either reinstall it or try a different one like AVG.
wow Zone Alarm I hate that program so much so i feel your pain, you should try AVG best free anti virus i ever had. But to answer your question when i had zone alarm i had to turn the filter from Normal Security to minimum Security. Because it wouldn't even let me check my bank account without disconnecting my connection. Hope this helps, But in my opinion just ditch zone alarm and go with AVG.