2008/06/17

ZoneAlarm Antivirus Review

Keep Evil Away From Your Computer
ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite, former 2006 big award winner, has unfortunately suffered the most. ZoneAlarm was able to block, catch, and prohibit all of the online threats I could find. The testing was done with Mozilla's FireFox 2.0 and the latest version of Internet Explorer. The complications came when IE (Internet Explorer) and ZoneAlarm both identified threats at the same time. There were warnings all over the screen, blocked images, security banners, flashing system tray icons, and even a center-screen pop-up from ZoneAlarm. The ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite is somewhat unbalanced as more attention was placed on the online aspect of system protection. The woes continue with this programs two-way Firewall which Vista's UAC (User Account Control) did NOT like, at all. Unless you were signed on as the Administrator, ZoneAlarm's software and Vista would bump heads for control and permission to transmit certain types of data that ZoneAlarm believed to be spyware transmitting backward, which were really small chunks of data such as wordpad text files, and MIDI controller information. Lastly the identity theft feature requires the entry of some very, very personal information, such as credit card number, license plate numbers and more so that it can presumably notify you if this information is found somewhere online. This might be acceptable to some users, and should only be used on a new or totally clean system, fortunately this is an optional, not required module inside ZoneAlarm's suite.

Features:
-Parental controls
-Intrusion prevention
-Rootkit detection
-Anti-spyware
-Two-way Firewall
-Anti-virus
-Anti-spam
-Anti-phishing
-Identity theft protection
-Parental controls
-OS Compatibility: Windows Vista, Windows XP
-Personal
-3 User version
-Operating system firewall
http://www.zonealarm.com

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