ZoneAlarm

ZoneAlarm is the name of a proprietary Personal Firewall by the company Check Point (formerly Zone Labs ) is developed.

History

Since version 6.5, the operating systems Windows 98 SE and ME are no longer supported. Since version 8.0, Windows 2000 is no longer supported. A running on 32- bit versions of Windows Vista ZoneAlarm version since June 14, 2007 available in English and since June 22, 2007 in German. The 64- bit versions of the Windows operating systems - to see how the system is the free version - only for Windows Vista and Windows 7 is possible.

Technical details

The focus of the personal firewall "Zone Alarm" is on easy installation and configuration. The product is available as a free version for home users and as a commercial version, among others, in the form of " ZoneAlarm Pro", which provides a wider range of functions.

The name "Zone Alarm" comes from the fact that the personal firewall separate security settings for two different security zones - one for the local network and one for the Internet - allowed.

System Requirements

Minimum System Requirements

  • Operating system: Windows XP (with SP2)
  • Processor: 1 GHz
  • Memory: 1 GB
  • ROM: 250 MB

Criticism

  • In January 2006, ZoneAlarm was suspected encrypted data is sent to the manufacturer. According to the manufacturer it was a bug that was resolved with the subsequent version 6.1.744 on March 1, 2006.
  • In the fall of 2010, the user community the free version by means of a bogus virus warning ( scareware ) should be animated to buy the ( chargeable ) Internet Security Suite. The German version was not affected.
  • The Federal Office for Security in Information Technology provides a non-uniform evaluation in the use of personal firewalls. Basically, the BSI refers here to the measures for safe surfing.
April 6 2013 Windows ME 64-bit computing Hertz Non-volatile memory
837385
de