ZONEALARM SECURITY SCAN SOFTWARE
ZONEALARM SECURITY SCAN PC

ZoneAlarm does allow you to change the setting for individual blocked sites to allow access, but it would be helpful to see in advance what other sites it doesn’t allow. For example, ZoneAlarm doesn’t actively warn you about a particular site instead, you simply can’t access that site.

Like the G-Data Internet Security 2010 suite, ZoneAlarm is perhaps a bit too cautious with the Web. On Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers, ForceField blocks drive-by downloads of malicious code. Web surfing protection, a new feature, comes from ZoneAlarm ForceField (a utility also sold separately). For example, ZoneAlarm uses SonicWall for antispam protection, MailFrontier for e-mail filtering of phishing attacks, and Netcraft for Web antiphishing protection.

ZONEALARM SECURITY SCAN SOFTWARE

Many of its security features rely on software apps from other vendors. ZoneAlarm doesn’t scan incoming mail nor IM messages instead, it scans the files associated on access. Ordinarily this would place ZoneAlarm high among the products tested, but in this roundup it came in sixth out of the eight).ĪV-Test displayed long on-demand scan times of up to 179 seconds on a 741 MB file and on access times of, 103 seconds compared with only 41 seconds to copy the same file on a system without antivirus installed. ZoneAlarm did well against the zoo Trojan horses, worms, password-stealers, and other nasties thrown at it, identifying on average 94 percent of the 722,372 collected samples. ZoneAlarm licenses its antivirus protection from Kaspersky, and in ‘s extensive malware-detection tests, ZoneAlarm did a decent job in both the on demand and on access detection of 2,735 malware files and scripts, scoring 100 percent against each, although it only caught 81 percent of the macro viruses.

We reviewed it for our midyear security suite roundup and our updated chart of security suites. This premium suite gives a lot of bang for the money, including one year of free identity fraud monitoring.

ZONEALARM SECURITY SCAN PC

CheckPoint ZoneAlarm Extreme Security 8.0 (one-year three-user license: $70 as of ) provides solid firewall protection along with a host of other security functions If anything, ZoneAlarm Extreme may be guilty of having too many pieces: It bundles together the basic security suite with the unique features of ID theft mitigation and recovery service, online data storage, and the optional PC utility.

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