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Version: ZoneAlarm 6.5.7
"Attach it to your brand new PC"
Pros: When i've tried earlier to make connection from an XP SP 1, win2k (without patches) and from previous versions to the Internet, the computer was infected and attacked within the first 10 minutes. The general time was exactly or below 5 minutes for XP and XP Sp1 (even SP2). So basicly after some minutes i was attacked by trojan horses and spyware applications which eat up the system's most memory and CPU time (99%) and blocked all basic windows applications which would help to remove the disasters.
When i've tried a clean OS install with ZoneAlarm, i realized why it's really necessery to store at your backups: i was able to get all other system, anti-virus and other updates without the threats. I'm not a genius at network threats but it was able to block all of my tests.
It can recognise my AVG 7 Pro - and as i remember (tried too much months ago) - and it might recognise the AVG 7 Free as well.
Cons: Actually, I've seen much better GUIs over there.
It's not possible to get updates/upgrades as easily as a simple definition file: it's such a pain that you must install them manually (even at minor changes).
It's not the best tool - i don't know other ZA editions - to use it at home with more computers, sometimes you'll have to spend plenty of hours/days to create connection between your computers/laptops (and different systems, i tried with xp-xp and xp-98).
Also, i wouldn't recommend it next to file-shareing softwares (i'd rather recommend other firewall titles).
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