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ZoneAlarm Free 6.0 now available

Julio Franco   on 23 July 2005 - 07:43 · 44 comments & 2988 views

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Easy-to-use firewall blocks hackers and other unknown threats. Stealth mode automatically makes your PC invisible to anyone on the Internet.
- Intrusion Blocking systematically identifies hackers and blocks access attempts.
- Stealth Mode automatically makes your computer invisible to anyone on the Internet.

System Requirements:
Windows 98SE/ME/2000 Pro/XP. Pentium II or higher. 30 MB of available hard disk space. Internet access. Minimum system RAM: 48MB (98SE/ME), 64MB (2000 Pro), 128MB (XP). Supported protocols for email scanning: POP3 and IMAP4 for incoming; SMTP for outgoing.

Download: ZoneAlarm Free 6.0.631.002
News source: TechSpot


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ESRB president Patricia Vance states the situation rather differently, saying that: "After a thorough investigation, we have concluded that sexually explicit material exists in a fully rendered, unmodified form on the final discs of all three platform versions of the game."

She did note, however, that "the material was programmed by Rockstar to be inaccessible to the player and they have stated that it was never intended to be made accessible."

The "Hot Coffee" mod saw players taking their girlfriend home and then having sex with her in a mini-game that, while present on the game DVD, only came to light after a PC modification unlocked the code. The data was subsequently found to be resident on the PS2 and Xbox discs and could be unlocked on PS2 using Datel's Action Replay cheat-finder product.

The ESRB and another industry body, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), have come under increasing pressure to act since Hot Coffee came to light, with widespread coverage in the American media and proponents of a ban receiving support from the likes of senator Hillary Clinton, Californian assemblyman Leland Yee, and anti-videogame activist Jack Thompson, who recently compared ESA president Doug Lowenstein to Adolf Hitler over his role in the affair.

Indeed, just last week the BBFC said that while it didn't know about Hot Coffee at the time of rating the game, it wasn't going to update it. "Even if we had been aware of it, we would not have had a problem," a spokesperson told this website. "From our point of view the hidden material does not contravene the 18 rating and so the rating stands."

In Australia however the game could well be banned altogether, with Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) - a notoriously strict organisation - having previously refused to classify titles including Manhunt and NARC, effectively banning them from sale. There the OFLC had said: "The Classification Board is compelled to revoke a game's classification if it is found to contain undisclosed contentious material, whether activated through use of a code or otherwise."


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(3 replies) #1 NyaR on 23 Jul 2005 - 07:52
changelog?
#1.1 Caleb on 23 Jul 2005 - 08:19
More Bugs
#1.2 Sierra Sonic on 23 Jul 2005 - 08:53
haha
#1.3 DOGglee on 23 Jul 2005 - 10:22
lol
(1 reply) #2 wak1zashi on 23 Jul 2005 - 09:16
isnt this a resource hog?
#2.1 Angry_Badger on 23 Jul 2005 - 11:26
Yeah very much so. Outpost is much much better
(1 reply) #3 mr_demilord on 23 Jul 2005 - 09:18
QUOTE
Stealth mode automatically makes your PC invisible to anyone on the Internet.


Ahum if you visit a site they know that you are online, the only stealth mode is unplug your pc
#3.1 lnatan25 on 23 Jul 2005 - 09:38
Uhm, I think think the idea is that if someone scans ports or IP addresses, then you are invisible.
(1 reply) #4 3rror on 23 Jul 2005 - 12:22
weeeeeeeeeee....not
I dont see myself bothered by it.
Another "used to be good" software
#4.1 alerosenfeld on 25 Jul 2005 - 02:17
Yep, unfortunately
#5 me101 on 23 Jul 2005 - 12:45
i still use the ZAP 4.x series, and find it extremly good, tried v5 and it was too buggy and a resourse hog! not tried v6 but i'll stick to v4 as it does all i need.
(1 reply) #6 mdew on 23 Jul 2005 - 12:54
I find it annoying, people (usually geeks) trying to help parents, friends etc by installing firewall software such as Zonealarm, and not showing them how to use it or disable it when need be. So when the software goes 'bung, oh! my internet isnt working, oh! my outlook isnt working, its the ISP's fault

Probably the only best non-intrusive firewall, that hasnt caused issues is the windows xp firewall. Sure the xp firewall isnt perfect and feature-rich, but atleast its better than nothing, and doesnt decide to block emails and general internet access randomly.
#6.1 dannymp3 on 26 Jul 2005 - 05:13
I especially love when people complain, "Oh, my computers so slow." I look at the specs, "P4?! 3.2 GHz?! SLOW?!"

THen I look at the the idiot (girl/guy) using it, and just slap 'em. "YOUR SLOW, YOU JUST DONT KNOW HOW TO USE THIS MACHINE! YOU DONT DESERVE SUCH EQUIPMENT!"
(1 reply) #7 greg098 on 23 Jul 2005 - 13:33
Zone Alarm 6 rocks. Way better then the Windows Firewall, which lets EVERYTHING in.
#7.1 koocha on 24 Jul 2005 - 22:06
Even BlackIce is better than the Windows Firewall....well, on second thoughts...maybe not
(2 replies) #8 green_geeky_dude on 23 Jul 2005 - 13:58
ahhhhh Fisher Price firewalls...................
#8.1 Jstphish on 23 Jul 2005 - 21:43
For a Fisher Price OS.
#8.2 rm20010 on 23 Jul 2005 - 21:56
*shuts off Theme service*

There we go.
(2 replies) #9 chunk0cheese on 23 Jul 2005 - 15:47
ahh good ole zonealarm, hosed a couple of Xp installs. I wont touch it again. Thank god for kerio 2.15
#9.1 imcrazydammit on 23 Jul 2005 - 19:07
I use 2.14. It blocks things that I tell it to block and allows things that I tell it to allow. It doesn't do anything other than that. Just the way I like it. It doesn't try to block spyware or popups. I hate software that tries to be your all-in-one solution when it can barely handle the main task correctly.
#9.2 Skyfrog on 24 Jul 2005 - 01:05
You can turn off the web filtering stuff with a few clicks though. Surely there have been tons of bug and security fixes since way back then. I'm sticking with the latest version myself.
#10 kwpro on 23 Jul 2005 - 15:53
They either forgot to put it in, or its a bug or they have removed it, but i cant seem to enable Pass-lock on any programs. Im using the free version.
#11 Ravensworth on 23 Jul 2005 - 16:16
I always thought ZoneAlarm was kind of buggy and bloated, and the interface cluttered looking. That's just my opinion of course but I never saw why it was so popular. I've been using Kerio for the last year and it works very well. Checked it on ShieldsUp and every port was stealthed.

Chunk0cheese, why 2.15? Isn't that kind of outdated? I'm using 4.20 myself.
(4 replies) #12 hardgiant on 23 Jul 2005 - 19:55
I have Zone Alarm Security Suite running on Windows Server 2003 even though it says it's not supported. It has run without a hitch.


For Windows XP I recommend:

512megs basic email and surfing
1 gig recommended
1-2gigs for photoshoping or video editing

Running a computer with less then 1 gig is just asking for trouble.
#12.1 Jeebus McChrist on 23 Jul 2005 - 21:47
Really? My computer has 512 MB and I rarely use more than 20%. I constantly multi-task, and my computer never crashes due to memory faults.

I think you're a tad wrong.
#12.2 Zoiks on 23 Jul 2005 - 23:35
XP uses about 20% of 512mb of ram on its own
#12.3 denzilla on 24 Jul 2005 - 14:23
Got plenty of PCs at work that run XP with 512 RAM and the employees multitask alot on these machines. You might need a gig or more if you game and photoshop, but anything more than 512 in an office setting is overkill.
#12.4 cork1958 on 25 Jul 2005 - 01:48
I have 3 XP Pro boxes (384MB's in all of them) and 1 XP Home box (256MB's) ALL with less than 512MB's and not a one of them has a problem with doing anything, anytime I want them too. More ram is always good, but that is something that is overkill also all by itself. 2 of those XP Pro boxes I just, within the last 2 weeks, added 256MB's to them, otherwise they both had 192MB's and ran great. To say this "512megs basic email and surfing" is absoulutely crazy!!

And on topic. I just also over this past weekend dumped ZA Pro in favor of Outpost Firewall Pro.

To those people that still use old versions of ZA, especially the person that replied saying they were still using 2.6, why do you think they update the program? You may as well not be even running a firewall. To argue a point on a firewall and say you are using something that old is insane.
(3 replies) #13 Burned on 23 Jul 2005 - 21:53
POS
I will stick with hardware firewalls
#13.1 Lexcyn on 24 Jul 2005 - 06:53
LOL. Agreed.
#13.2 blueorder on 24 Jul 2005 - 09:39
Astaro is the only FW for me...
#13.3 Angry_Badger on 24 Jul 2005 - 11:24
HArdware firewalls are great but they dont stop outbound traffic
#14 eilegz on 24 Jul 2005 - 01:13
agnitum outpost do all this and eat less ram
(1 reply) #15 Pwn3r on 24 Jul 2005 - 03:52
vsmon=33 MB
f*** this program
#15.1 g_denne on 24 Jul 2005 - 05:04
I run Zone Alarm 5.5. My Vsmon is 15Mb. I have no issues with ZA 5.5. It runs perfectly fine, no crashes or issues. I don't see how 15Mb footprint is overly hogging resources. 33Mb I would agree is too much but maybe some tuning is required. Such is the nature of the Windows OS.
#16 JOEWARE on 24 Jul 2005 - 09:00
ZA 4.x was excellent, 5.x was VERY buggy and got worse and worse with version 6 and more resource hogging EVER!

Oh well, I'll stick w/ Symantec CLient Security 3.
#17 Janto on 24 Jul 2005 - 16:48
i use the hardware fw of my linksys wrtg54g router , the only firewall i prefer is outpost
#18 Raven on 24 Jul 2005 - 21:41
How many people have actually tried v6 to determine if it's a 'resource hog' and buggy. They just released it yet everyone is slamming it like they've done any testing of it. I've read two reviews by people actually testing the product and they are reporting resource drain or bugs.
#19 naap51stang on 25 Jul 2005 - 01:44
People still use ZA?

#20 mrk on 25 Jul 2005 - 05:58
used to use windows firewall on sp2 which was PERFECT (been using xp one for 4 years now) and now using my routers hardware firewall.

no problems...
(1 reply) #21 Swift on 25 Jul 2005 - 22:51
ZA 5 (Vsmon) was running @ 9Mb and ZA 6 (vsmon) only uses 12Mb of recource
That aint bothering me
#21.1 nos_grunt on 26 Jul 2005 - 09:28
Agreed. Just upgraded to 6.0 and my vsmon runs at 12-13k, not very much at all. And as far as its effectiveness goes - its a software firewall, what do you expect? I use ZA in conjunction with a hardware firewall, simply for the purpose of controlling my outbound traffic. I seriously doubt anyone would ever try to hack my pc (wtf for? pictures of my dog?), so its primary use is controlling spyware/malware.
(1 reply) #22 - diego - on 25 Jul 2005 - 23:05
no firewalls... thats the best way.
#22.1 sinatosk on 26 Jul 2005 - 21:23
your sick

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