Tag: ZONEALARM

ZoneAlarm has been around for years, and is still one of the most popular Windows firewall programs around (about 1.6 million CNET downloads to date). As reported on gHacks, Checkpoint will be giving away the 2009 Pro version tomorrow - complete with one year of updates. We're not sure about the exact URL for the promotion, but gHacks thinks it will probably be associated with this address. ...

There's no replacement for good anti-virus and anti-spyware programs. But if you want to be super-certain that you're not downloading anything dangerous next time you open your web browser, there's one surefire way to protect your computer: make sure you're not writing anything to your system. Sandboxie lets you do this by setting up a sort of virtual hard drive that's separated from the rest of ...

It's been a busy week here at Download Squad headquarters. And we assume you've had a busy week too. So if you've fallen behind on your tech news, here are a few things you might have missed during the week ending September 29th, 2007. Download Squad interviews Evan Jones of 360desktop - Video Ever get the feeling that there's just not enough space for all the shortcuts, temporary files, and ...

ZoneAlarm has launched a public beta of a new security tool that basically puts your web browser into a sandbox. Visit sites you know are unsafe, check your bank statements on a computer that you know is infected with viruses and spyware. We caught up with ZoneAlarm Director of Consumer Product Management John Gable at ShowStoppers in New York, and he told us a bit about the new product. ...

Oh, the irony. Bob Cringely reported a couple weeks back that PC firewall software ZoneAlarm 6.0 has been caught in the act of sending encrypted data back to four Zone Labs servers, even when communication settings in the program are disabled. Oops. After denying the reports for nearly two months, Zone Labs is now claiming that it's a bug, even though the connection instructions are specifically ...

Makers of firewall and anti-virus software are warning that RSS feeds could be the next big thing for spreading viruses. In this article from The Register, Trend Micro's marketing manager says, "RSS feeds point to HTML pages and as such, they can be made to point to HTML-exploits or malicious JavaScript. It certainly can be a possible way of distributing malicious code over the internet to ...