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November 13, 2007 2:10 PM PST

ZoneAlarm: Anti-spyware free for a day

by Seth Rosenblatt

ZoneAlarm is offering its CNET Editors' Choice-rated Anti-spyware program for free today, until 7 a.m. Wednesday morning.

The $20 program battles spyware from a different approach than most other antimalware apps. Using its extensive knowledge of firewalls, ZoneAlarm Anti-spyware uses firewalls as a basis for providing protection. Unlike most popular antispyware software, ZoneAlarm scans commonly affected system areas rather than your entire computer.

While this method scans faster than other options and is mostly effective for catching intruders, I find a comprehensive system scan to be more desirable. Still, people familiar with the popular ZoneAlarm firewall software will recognize the intuitive tabbed interface and newcomers should acclimate quickly.

Seth peers into the deep, dark corners of software so that you don't have to. He has yet to suffer a single nightmare about OS/2. You can follow him on Twitter.
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by dicksonlo November 13, 2007 6:35 PM PST
good
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by billfmlb November 13, 2007 7:29 PM PST
zz
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by ssinha63 November 13, 2007 8:18 PM PST
tt
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by mahora5000 November 13, 2007 9:14 PM PST
Its OK
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by gdbon November 14, 2007 3:47 AM PST
Great
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by zzavil November 14, 2007 8:28 AM PST
Great!!!
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by tenc21 November 14, 2007 10:23 AM PST
ZoneAlarm slows my system down so that it barefly functions...install at your own peril.
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by pnath November 14, 2007 11:51 AM PST
great
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by /P1\ November 14, 2007 6:59 PM PST
The free for a day event has expired.
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by PreciseTester November 18, 2007 2:50 AM PST
Hi ALL, !!! VIRUS warning !!!

CheapestSoft All to iPod Converter with 174735 downloads last week is #13 on Most Popular Software Top50 have Trojan/Spyware inside. I wrote this fact several times to CNET help center, write reviews, that author move to second page and no one can help DELETE this bogus company. All the software have several GPL parts (mencoder etc.) with law and license violation. And finally main "all2ipod.exe" have VIRUS INSIDE.

Please somebody HELP delete and ban this company. Author have nice chinese webpage on chinese domain with chinese 163.com warez email. What the hell is happens with all CNET ???

Don't make possible to infect more users PLEASE.
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by JoyceNgo-218335993631273378369 November 21, 2007 3:03 PM PST
ZoneAlarm DOES have very good firewall, spyware scanning and antivirus however it's a very slow software no matter which one you pick. I am currently using the security suite and I honestly wish I could find better (kaspersky internet suite was my choice but then I ditched it) and now I am very unsatisfied of ZoneAlarm since uses so much RAM! 300MB/512MB and I can't even run Photoshop at the same time. Maybe it's just me having way too little RAM, however I saw others complain abot the same thing and I'm sure out of so many complaints, one person must have more than 512mb RAM.
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by Nguyen Vu Toan November 21, 2007 11:32 PM PST
I can not download
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by freeman_songchai November 29, 2007 7:58 PM PST
too difficult to download
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by bedwan December 25, 2007 1:09 PM PST
mersi
Transplant surgery for your infected hard drive
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