Vista - Anybody installed ZoneAlarm yet?

Anybody installed ZoneAlarm yet?
Mark

Go to Zonelabs website yourself, and see if they have got the vista version
completely ready yet!

"Mark" wrote:

> Anybody installed ZoneAlarm yet?
> Mark
>
>

Mick wrote:
> Go to Zonelabs website yourself, and see if they have got the vista version
> completely ready yet!
>
> "Mark" wrote:
>
>> Anybody installed ZoneAlarm yet?
>> Mark
>>
>>


It's a long way from ready. I played around with the betas, up until the
most recent one. It's slow, it bombs out a lot, and it doesn't seem as
if Zone Alarm is too interested in moving it along. There had been a
subforum on its site to discuss the beta, but that seems to have
disappeared now.

I would not recommend it.

The Kaspersky suite is about to be released. It works very well.

"Mark" <dxt44@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:uQ0v7PwrHHA.4888@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Anybody installed ZoneAlarm yet?
> Mark
>

<imho>
ZA on a properly configured Vista machine is a waste of resources.
</imho>
Or any properly configured XP machine for that matter.

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Steve Easton

> Anybody installed ZoneAlarm yet?

I wouldn't bother. The Vista firewall is perfectly adequate, especially if
you're behind a broadband router of some kind with NAT and it's own
firewall.

The less low-level third party code you've got messing in the guts of
Vista the better, I reckon.

Steve

I saw an announcement that the new ZoneAlarm Pro does work in Vista <take
that with grain of salt>. Don't know if the Free Zone Alarm works or not.

"Mick" <Mick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Go to Zonelabs website yourself, and see if they have got the vista
> version
> completely ready yet!
>
> "Mark" wrote:
>
>> Anybody installed ZoneAlarm yet?
>> Mark
>>
>>

On Jun 15, 4:14 pm, "Steve Thackery" <t...@nowhere.net> wrote:
> > Anybody installed ZoneAlarm yet?
>
> I wouldn't bother. The Vista firewall is perfectly adequate, especially if
> you're behind a broadband router of some kind with NAT and it's own
> firewall.
>
> The less low-level third party code you've got messing in the guts of
> Vista the better, I reckon.
>
> Steve

Steve,

I agree with you. I ran ZoneAlarm Security Suite for several years
with XP. Had some problems with a couple of the 6.X versions, but I
was satisfied overall. I was ready to reinstall ZA after I did a
clean install of VISTA in Feb., but no version was ready. In the
interim I have been using AVG Free. It doesn't seem to use all the
resources ZA does, and considering all the security enhancements in
VISTA, I think I will stick with the status quo.

Bill

"Mark" <dxt44@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Anybody installed ZoneAlarm yet?
> Mark
>
Yes, I'm running the recently released Vista compatible ZoneAlarm Free on
Vista Business. The UI appears exactly the same as previous versions - if
you're familiar with it then setup is a no-brainer. I had no problems
installing and it seems to be working as expected.