nomoment said:Also, I'm hearing complaints about the newest version. Can anybody address this?
maharg said:XP SP2 basically does the same thing as zonealarm now.
So I wasn't the only one with this problem.Hitman said:The new ZoneAlarm sucks! I had it and it kept freezing my programs. Get the version of ZoneAlarm right before this latest one.
Akira: http://www.computeractive.co.uk/downloads/1139297Akira said:Where did you get ZoneAlarm 4.5, nomoment? All the sites I found are shady Russian warez sites.
aoi tsuki said:A dozen posts and no mention of Sygate Personal Firewall?
http://soho.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
i stopped using ZA (can't remember the version but it was the latest a year ago) when it completely killed my internet access. No problems with SPF, i've uninstalled and reinstalled it and it works like a charm. Plays well with Bittorrent and other P2P apps as well.
Yeah, "best of the free ones" can kill/hinder internet access and eat up your CPU. FWIW i had no major problems other than occasion CPU usage spiking with an older version (2.x IIRC) of ZA. Later versions turned me away from the program.Deg said:Sygate is flawed apparently. Best of the free ones is ZA.