I really haven't noticed that many problems with Zonealarm but I'll keep my eye on it. I decided to forego with the school network thing...there really isn't anything on it that I need that I don't have on my own computer. There are programs installed over the network that I could access if I ever got fully connected, but being able to be connected to go online is enough for now. It seems there is a certain program that triggers my problem now...trying to figure out which one...probably DreamRender.