by Sethioz » Mon Aug 20, 2012 2:12 pm
block the updater using ZoneAlarm's "program control"
.. i keep telling everyone that anti-virus is useless nowdays since all programs do whatever they want, but zonealarm prevents them doing that. you are in control of programs not other way around. nothing on my pc updates without my permission and nothing in my pc connects to internet without my permission.
as Ken mentioned about skype updater, you can just add it into blacklist using zonealarm so it can't start at all. no need to delete it. i think skype will download it again anyway if you delete it. you just have to block it.
zonealarm is not free, so use torrents. and i suggest you use zonealarm 9.x something. i never liked newer one, but up to you.
and it must be "zonealarm internet security". extreme will do the trick too.