ZoneAlarm Security Suite

[dL]

Anyone using ZoneAlarm Security Suite? If so, do you like it?

I want some opinions on this product. Thanks!

dL

[dL]

Anyone?

dL

[MikeCoz]

well zonealarm has always been great but there newest version 5 really sucks bad. its freezes up your computer and u can't even ctrl+alt+delete. you have to completly shut down. many people have been having the these problems. so i would advise you to stay away from zonealarm until this issue is fixed

[dL]

It freezes comps? Not for me, working fine so far.

dL

[Spectator]

used zonealarm for quite some time.

Tried ZSS, seemed to work brifely...i knew it was buggy but i tried ver. 5 anyway.

crashed hard when i used bittorrent to download. Screen freeze completely.

tried again...samething. ditched immediately.

I rather use dedicated AV rather than the one that comes with ZSS.

[aaroniekins]

used zonealarm for quite some time.

Tried ZSS, seemed to work brifely...i knew it was buggy but i tried ver. 5 anyway.

crashed hard when i used bittorrent to download. Screen freeze completely.

tried again...samething. ditched immediately.

I rather use dedicated AV rather than the one that comes with ZSS.

it uses Ettrust i believe

ive had viruses leak through it :(

sygate+kasp seems to work for me

[McGazza]

Ya well i seem to be havin probs with it now ZASS now freezes ma comp so i guess ill have to go wiv sum1 else for the time being :)

[PseudoRandomDragon]

Had one bug which was fixed in the new release. All and all I'd say it is worth it. It was a really good idea integrating IMSecure with ZASS.

[JoDaddy]

I'm using 5.0 with antivirus. Never had any problems with it. In fact, while it scans my computer, I don't even notice. It's caught viruses in my email and I've never had any slowdown, especially nothing that would crash my computer. I think everyone else is making it up. :-)

[ryanmcv]

I've been using it since the day it was released, and I've had no problems with it. You guys have to reformat.

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[M9IqpK4]

A more vulnerabilities has been found in the Zone Alarm. Use MS "Internet Connection Firewall" in Connection Properties -> Advanced

[Slimy]

it sux

slows down your internet via many programs

[zxvf]

well zone alaram security suite is not as good as zone alaram Pro.. cos.. it is consuming lot of memory with the anit virus in it.. i suggest u get back to zone alaram pro...

[Puma]

its working fine for me and i didn't even notice when za scan thru my comp. za 5 is awsome. i give it 2 thumps up!

[PseudoRandomDragon]

well zone alaram security suite is not as good as zone alaram Pro.. cos.. it is consuming lot of memory with the anit virus in it.. i suggest u get back to zone alaram pro...

True, but it takes less resources to have ZASS than it does to run ZAP + AVG.

[PseudoRandomDragon]

A more vulnerabilities has been found in the Zone Alarm.

Yeah, if I was running ZoneAlarm v2 or v3 then I would be worried. :rolleyes:

[S.MULLA]

ZA5 is just terrible, makes the system soo slow, unable to cttrl+alt+del, nothing, only way to shut down is to switch it off from the mains, and this on a newly formatted pc, i uninstalled it and all hte problems went away, im using the older 4.5 version, which does the job superbly, will never upgrade to ZA5. :/

[morganpugh84]

I use AVGPro and ZoneAlarm Pro conflicts with the Email Scanner so I had to stop using it. I am now using Kerio Personal Firewall 4 and love it :yes: Only been using it a few hours but it is great.

AVG7Pro + Kerio = win (Y)

[McGazza]

C'oh now im confused by all ppl saying i shudnt use ZASS, well i dont want vunerabilties, i dont know if i shud move, if so what to, help !!

[dL]

OK This is a side note, not about ZASS. What antivirus program then?

Kaspersky? AVG?

I don't want McAfee or Norton cuz of their stupid resource hog.

dL

[spidoinkel]

really didnt like ZA5, i was a huge fan of four and swore by it however the price of za5, not to mention the bloatedness changed my mind. i also experienced a problem with it whereby za5 killed my connection every 5 mins, this was remedied by uninstallation.

at the moment i have no other firewall which i dont particularly enjoy as i feel somewhat vulnerable but i will wait until sp2 goes final and use the built in firewall with that as ive heard good things.

[dL]

How come everyone have problems with ZA5?

ZA5 is perfect. I don't see anything wrong with it. Weird ...

dL

[PseudoRandomDragon]

C'oh now im confused by all ppl saying i shudnt use ZASS, well i dont want vunerabilties, i dont know if i shud move, if so what to, help !!

ZoneAlarm 4.5 is fine to use. It is people running 4.0 or earlier that should worry.

[Kenno]

I have problem with ZA 5.0 too. I just upgrade from 4.5 this evening again with the new release 5.0.590.043 as it's been told by a friend that the "Freezing Problems" have been fixed. I guess it's still there. I'm gonna go back and use Kerio Personal Firewall.