ZoneAlarm Firewall

gremlin666_2

Does anyone know the link for Zone Alarms free firewall and is it worth using?

philnicandamy

http://www.zonealarm.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_za.jsp

used it on previous machines running xp, not used since upgrading to vista as vista firewall more than meets needs

it seems to be the free firewal of choice with people..I can only say when I ran didn't really have any trouble with it

Reluctant_spender

Moved away from Zonealarm as I had problems when they tried to improve it.

I now use Comodo which is also free - touchwood never had a problem - https://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

niceguyrichy

Reluctant_spender wrote: »

Moved away from Zonealarm as I had problems when they tried to improve it.

I now use Comodo which is also free - touchwood never had a problem - https://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

the latest release is much better the ones right after the big revamp, back to it's good old self pretty much
a lot of people like Sygate personal firewall too, but mostly because of the custom options in sygate rather than any security benefits. zonealarm is about as good as they come for free.

alanrowell

One thing the free version of Zonealarm doesn't allow is port forwarding which means that if you use P2P software you may find that your download rates are very low

superscaper

niceguyrichy wrote: »

the latest release is much better the ones right after the big revamp, back to it's good old self pretty much
a lot of people like Sygate personal firewall too, but mostly because of the custom options in sygate rather than any security benefits. zonealarm is about as good as they come for free.

Does it still include that Mailfrontier Email filter? That was the reason I moved to Comodo as it completely crippled Outlook and there was no option for not installing it.

Genghis

I got rid of Zone Alarm as I found it to be a bit of a hog on resources..