Hi,

I have been a windows 8 tester since basically as soon as the DP came out in September.

I use windows 8 CP now on my netbook (which I take to college) and I am not 100% sure if it was a virus I caught but I think it is very suspicious how it was working flawless one second and then the next second it was just impossible to do anything.

Luckily I am prepared now with this stuff thanks to dropbox and my external HDD, so the only things that are important is my college work which is backed up in dropbox which is then backed up on my external hdd through time machine when I get home onto my mac.

So to save fighting with my netbook, virus or no virus, I am just going to do a reinstall (luckily I can access bios/boot options when I just force shutdown/restart my netbook unlike when I just do a standard windows 8 shutdown.

I have gone to the Avast website and they say that Avast 7 works great on the beta in which I guess they mean CP(consumer preview) so I am going to test that out in parallels before I do on my netbook.

I would like to know if ZoneAlarm free firwall works on windows 8 CP?

That is the setup I have always used (apart from switching from AVG to Avast) and is the set up really I wanted from the start, but with the DP I have been fine, but I just don’t have a clue if it is a virus or not. But like I said, I will just reinstall as that’s just simple enough. As the only thing I have really installed is opera and MS Office 2003.

I’m too bothered, as if no one is sure I can simply just test it in parallels, but I really do want to be relying on avast and zonealarm again where at least I can scan my downloads manually etc. from the right click context menu which is not available (yet) with defender.

Sorry if I have given a bit too much information. But I got pins and needles in my fingers now after all this typing lol :)

Thanks Jase Wolf