RSSFree 24-hour ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 download
By Angela Gunn | Published November 18, 2008, 10:11 AM
Need a firewall freshener? Tuesday marks Check Point Software's 15th anniversary, and to celebrate, it's offering free copies of Check Point ZoneAlarm Pro 2009 to all comers.
Check Point's anniversary promotion runs from 9:00 am EST today until 9:00 am on Wednesday, and includes a one-year license for one PC running Windows XP or Vista. The company will also offer an assortment of discounts on ZoneAlarm Antivirus, ZoneAlarm Pro, and ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite.
ZoneAlarm, one of the category's more venerable titles, has evolved in recent years from a program that assumes the user is knowledgeable about potential threats to a program that can be adjusted to keep the civilians from being frightened by an overload of popups and queries from the software (let's call it "cancelorallowaphobia"). The SmartDefense Advisor is in this version able to configure proper access rights for over 2 million applications. ZoneAlarm also includes identity theft protections that keep a particular eye out for sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, and has an appealing "game mode" in which the software refrains from pestering you while you're at play.
ZoneAlarm Pro's had an interesting time of late in comparisons against other software firewalls. After a rough go of it for version 7 in the well-respected Matousec Firewall Challenge, the new 8.0.020.000 revision of the software blasted back in late September, scoring a robust 86% overall (PDF available here), which in Matousec parlance is a Very Good protection level rating. (The other two packages tested at that time, BitDefender Internet Security 2009 12.0.10.2 and McAfee Internet Security 2009 10.0.209, scored 7% and 12% respectively, which in Matousec parlance is a protection level rating of None.)
Test results for the current 8.0.020.000 version aren't currently available at the popular Test My PC Security site. The 8.0 version of the software was released in late August and normally sells for $19.95.
Does this ZoneAlarm finally support 64-bit Vista? There have never been any technical difficulties caused by Microsoft that have prevented the ZoneAlarm developers from supporting 64-bit Vista. Symantec had no trouble developing an extremely high quality, reliable firewall for 64-bit Vista despite the existence of things like Patch Guard.
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|http://www.zonealarm.com...modules/zap/sys_req.jsp
Seems like Vista x64 is not supported. But I prefer NIS 2009! Would recommend NIS 2009 :)
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|I wish I could disagree with so many who find this product not only far too resource intensive, but far too intrusive.
In the end it is more a pain in @ss rather than an @sset.
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|LOL @pain in the @ss...
do you have one? I thought you were born @ssless
LOL
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|Don't need or want Pro, but Zonealarm is good stuff - better than that mess of an app Comodo. People having problems likely have PC issues deeper than their choice of firewall.
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|ZoneAlarm is not worth free..
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|Giving it away is nice, but its pants. Sorry tried thi some time ago, even but it and got hacked.. not good
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|Great link ... got my copy.
Used a few emails to get the legit keys as well. Will be usefull when fixing problems, and they might get some customers out of it after a year.
While I have a hardware firewall, I like the outbound security software firewalls provide.
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|Been using ZoneAlarms firewall since they started making it, great product.
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|I wouldn't use this piece of junk even if they paid me to use it.
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|Ditto x 100.
Zonealarm will cause far more issues on your PC than fix. This is fact, not opinion.
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|Great! Then you you shouldn't have any problem substantiating it with some references instead of chest thumping?
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|Go thump yourself. I've had nothing but problems with it. The main one was that it kept telling me that my hard drive was failing and it wasn't and it also would give me many BSODs as well.
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|I second that!
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|He can't run ZoneAlarm without problems..
He can't run Vista without problems...
Can anyone guess what the common factor is here?
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|Yeah. You're a tool..... But then again everyone already knew that fact...
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|His pants are on backwards and he voted for Obama?
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|..or that you're completely inept.
But then..we already knew that. [smiles]
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|You just described one of my neighbors to a tee.
Of course, he also thinks he's a black man.
Go figure.
(Note: he's an entitlement addicted, spoiled little white boy.)
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|http://download.zonealar...nternetAccessIssue.html
And look at their changelog. ( http://download.zonelabs...istory.html#7.0.462.000 )
Can you guess how many issues I've ever had with my linux firewall that were related to the kernel itself? I think there's been 1-2 issues over 6 years?
We're talking software designed to protect software, in fact doing the opposite.
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|i'll stick with windows vista's advanced firewall settings, does the job... why boat your system up.
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|I wouldn't download Zone Alarm PRO if it was being given away free. Hang on wait a minute, Zone Alarm PRO is being given away free! I guess you know my stance on this then.
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|I'm not a great believer in software firewalls. I use a hardware firewall combined with NOD32. It seems to work well and I don't have to deal with all the popups.
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|Do I REALLY need this much security on my home network. I've got a router with ports locked down. I use NAT. I've got anti-virus (free). I run spyware scans. I have the Vista firewall enabled. I even run backups to external media nightly.
I've never had any problems. None.
I've had NIS and found it was the biggest resource hog ever. I wonder how many other people would see performance boosts if they removed this bloat. I think that software like this is overkill for a home user like me.
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|I have a router with only a select number of ports open.
I have no firewall or antivirus and I haven't had a virus in 4 years.
**** security; knowledge of computers is worth much more.
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|Paul,
Knowledge of computers, in your case, *IS* security.
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|Will you please install AntiVirus, and then run SpyBot to clean your PC! Your statement that you run no AntiVirus but don't have any viruses is an oxymoron. I can't believe I ran into the person sending me all that spam on the interwebs.
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|I talked to a Microsoft Tech Rep who also said he ran no anti-virus. I just don't have that much confidence in my computer knowledge. Good luck and clear sailing.
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|NIS and resource hog? LOL. Forget the past...
Have you tried NIS 2009? It's one of the lightest and fastest security suite out there. It's been proven too. I use NIS 2009 it's taking less 10 MB of memory and installing it was so easy. It did take a couple of minutes to uninstall NIS 2008 but after restarting my computer it installed in less than a minute or two. And it's very light on my system. As far as protection goes, it's got one of the best firewall! and virus definitions are updated every 5-10 minutes not that I care about because it's firewall that matters the most to me
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|There was a time I used to use Zone Alarm pro but ever since I switched to Norton Internet Security, there's no way am gonna switch to any other security software. Norton Internet Security 2009 rocks!!
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|Are you kidding?
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|NIS: 71%.
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|Try uninstalling and reinstalling it and see how you like it then. That's if you *can* uninstall it without having to download and run a script, then rip out of the registry all references to the product. After having to do that on a dozen or so computers, I swore that my company would never, ever use Norton products again (not that I would have brought the stuff in the first place, but it was there when I was hired).
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|Norton has a specialized uninstall tool, Norton Removal Tool. It does all the work that the standard uninstaller doesn't.
The 2009 NIS has a new installer. It MAY actually uninstall now without the removal tool.
I don't any reason to uninstall NIS. It works. And I like software firewalls. They let me block programs that check for updates without permission like Acrobat Reader for instance.
All right. I am petty when I block Reader. But it works on ad supported software as well.
I never had any problems in the past with ZoneAlarms firewall. If I wasn't using NIS I would download and use ZoneAlarm. I do understand that some prefer depending on a router. I just like the ability to control what goes on my PC.
Routers are not hardware firewalls. They run software. Calling a router a hardware firewall would be like calling a Linux box firewall a hardware firewall.
The only true hardware firewall that exists is an on off switch.
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|Yup dude I have already done that too, have had no problems with NIS 2009! Just because it didn't work on your computer doesn't mean it won't work on other computers too.
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|Why do they need a specialized uninstall tool? Just fix the standard uninstaller. Maybe they did that with NIS 2009. However, I don't have the time to test all new versions to see if they actually live up to the hype.
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|My computers, not my computer. I had to do the procedure on every single one of my work's computers. The standard uninstall program didn't work on a single one of them.
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|Looks like they may finally have gotten some of the kinks out.
FYI: Outpost scored 99% and Commodo took a 95%.
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|Comodo got 95% back in April. Matousec do not test every version that is released unless they are paid.
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|No thanks...not even the opportunity to get the pro version for free will convince me to use Zone Alarm again.
After my last experiences with Zone Alarm on my computers, I will never ever use it again.
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