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ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware: there but not there yet!
The ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite 6 has many improvements over some of its peers in the firewalls market, yet it falls short of expectations. But we can’t say Zone Labs (read Checkpoint - the new owner of this firm) hadn’t tried.
The company has built on its exclusive triple-firewall alarm protection. It includes anti-virus, anti-adware and anti-spyware protecting the network connections, specific apps and the O/S. To be fair, there isn’t another firewall that promises such sweeping protection.
Its limitations could lie in the traditional manner by which it detects infections. It scans the system as usual, but is effective nonetheless at eliminating more adware and spyware than the free firewalls, such as Spybot Search & Destroy 1.4 and Ad-Aware SE Personal from Lavasoft. A test with all three revealed ZA had removed almost 80 percent of adware and spyware components, while Spybot managed to get only 59 percent and Ad-Aware removed 63 percent. I consider that as above average performance.
The firewall includes the SmartDefense Advisor which automatically responds to alerts such as when an adware tries to invade your Internet Explorer. That is something no other anti-spyware can do. This feature however, is still at a development stage which the company said will progress according to user feedback.
Experienced users would find themselves comfortable with the ZA and its many alerts. Moderate users are likely to ask “Oh why on earth did I spend so much money on this thing?”
The ZA Anti-Spyware runs on Windows 98 SE, ME, 2000 Pro and XP.
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Disappointing stuff
It detects and deletes most of the irritating spyware and scans also quite fast. Not value for its money though. Support is poor. Disappointing.
User Rating : 1 /10  (
by :
Duffy on
Fri, 03 Mar 2006 11:28:17 GMT
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