Free Zonealarm Pro Giveaway

[Falcon1986]

I found this piece of news via gHacks.comp.

Check Point will be giving away free copies of the ZoneAlarm Pro firewall application on Tuesday, 18th November, 2008 only.

[sultan_emerr]

Thanks for the info, Falcon1986.

[Pete_C]

Well after some of the past issues with the free version of ZA and even the paid one (like when they forgot to update their software before microsoft issued a critical update so ZA blocked internet access on updated computers) I hesitate to trust them even though they are currently top rated in many internet security comparisons.

The new Norton 2009 versions are far superior to previous versions in terms of resource usage and system load.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2330018,00.asp

http://reviews.cnet.com/internet-security-...7-33246586.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=2...+internet+secur

http://internet-security-suite-review.toptenreviews.com/

Places Panda tenth out of the ten reviewed

I would put Norton, Kaspersky, and Bit Defender as the top three choices; valuing antivirus , anti trojan , and anti spyware capabilities as most important.

If you are going for just antivirus then panda does not even make the top ten

http://anti-virus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

http://www.pcworld.com/article/118792/inte...s_face_off.html

http://www.firewallguide.com/suites.htm

Lists norton as best with Kaspersky and zone alarm also recommended

And they list several other comparative reviews

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,23334...5079TX1K0000992

Well Panda outperforms Webroot and F-Secure in their tests, but is outperformed by just about everything else

Again Norton is a leader of the pack with Kaspersky, Trend, Bitdefender , and even Zone Alarm outperforming Panda

http://av-test.org/

http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2008/09_02

Breaks things down and lists products you may not even have heard of.

WOW Avast, which is free

Product malware on demand adware / spyware on demand false positives scan speed proactive detection response times malware on demand adware / spyware on demand

Avast! (Alwil) ++ ++ + + o o 99.3% 98.3%

Panda which you recommend

Panda 2009 o + + + ++ + 91.8% 95.6%

So your wonder product is misses almost ten percent of all malware, and five percent of the spyware and adware while free avast gets 99.3% of all malware, and misses a mere 1.7% of the adware .

Norton 2009 (Symantec) ++ + ++ ++ + ++ 98.7% 95.4%

We could go on and on; but the facts are there.

Avast if you want free and Norton, Zone Alarm, or Kaspersky if you want to pay for it.