ZoneAlarm Pro 3.0.118

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• Price: Free to try $49.95 to buy (Buy it now)
• Operating system: Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
• Date added: April 10, 2002
• Total Downloads: 1,630,344
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

Along with its effective and easy-to-use firewall and additional security features, this new version of ZoneAlarm Pro brings mostly solid antispyware protection to the table. ZoneAlarm Pro makes configuring a firewall, which sounds like a daunting task for the majority of computer users, incredibly easy with the included wizard. Maintaining and updating settings also is a snap when you're using the application's stylish interface and its simple slider controls. The app now boasts an ultrasecure triple-layer firewall, which safeguards your machine's OS and Registry. Experts will appreciate options that let them set up custom rules. The program's Zones feature also allows you to assign different security levels for a local network and the Internet. We found ZoneAlarm Pro very good at recognizing and automatically including settings for our local network. In all our tests, the firewall guarded against all external and internal threats it encountered.

ZoneAlarm Pro includes a cookie cleaner, an ad blocker, a pop-up stopper, and new antispyware tools. Happily, the app offers both real-time protection against malware as well as a scanning engine. In our tests, spyware scans were blisteringly fast and almost always accurate, though ZoneAlarm Pro did leave a few minor traces that some dedicated utilities removed. The real-time module also fared pretty well, but we wish it offered more information on potential threats from directly within the program. Elsewhere, we like the configuration options for the privacy-protection features, which let you individually apply settings to different Web sites. The ID Lock feature, which lets users specify what information the firewall should prevent from being sent out via the Web or e-mail, also is a nice touch. With a tougher firewall and the addition of antispyware tools, this excellent program just keeps improving.

Publisher's description

ZoneAlarm Pro automatically blocks known and unknown Internet threats for home users, small-business owners, and corporate employees working remotely. It provides comprehensive, customizable settings that let you tailor security controls to your exact needs. ZoneAlarm Pro monitors outgoing application traffic as well as incoming traffic, protecting you from any local applications attempting to use your Internet connection to communicate with the outside world. You have the option to grant and deny access on a per-application basis, customizing the protection for your system. A unique signature integrity check insures that imposters pretending to be a trusted application cannot get through. ZoneAlarm Pro also offers password protection, automatic mobile PC protection, and e-mail attachment protection for 37 different file types, and it can control your security by blocking IP addresses that run port scans.

ZoneAlarm features online privacy protection with ad-blocking and cookie control features. In addition, it contains a Program Control feature that allows users to determine which programs are allowed to communicate with the Internet, thus preventing Trojan horse programs from "calling home" and transmitting a user's information or opening a back door on the PC that a hacker can manipulate remotely.

Version 3.0.118 allows MailSafe to quarantine 46 different attachment types by default, addresses issues with Diablo II and other software titles on Windows 9x operating systems, addresses proxy server issues with software such as Webwasher and Proxomitron. This version also includesredesigned Panel tabs and MailSafe security and usability improvements.

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