Internet, intra-net, CDs, removable storage, memory keys, etc - and there are plenty of ways malware can do serious damage, virtually unseen, without it needing any admin rights.Įven then - have you not noticed the number of occasions that 'flaws/vulnerabilities' are discovered where malware can find its way around admin restrictions and take control of a PC - and that applies to both the OS and well known and widely used third party applications.Ĭorporate clients I've supported over the years follow the same lead. There are plenty of ways that malware can get on a PC, e.g. This pretty much negates the need for AVG and pointless software firewalls that accomplish little if anything. I've learned to not surf with admin rights. Well, if you say so - then must be so, right? Since I'm an adult who actually knows how to use a computer. I've chosen to remove the 'Link Scanner' and sure enough, no more hanging web pages/tabs - joy! The 'Link Scanner' needs to completely 'uninstalled', by re-running the full installer and selecting 'change/modify' and 'advanced' options - just 'disabling' the Link Scanner is not enough. Supposedly, AVG's people (Grisoft) say that the ZoneAlarm people are working on an update to fix the problem., but this could be several weeks or more before it's done (if true).Īpparently the work-around solution is either to remove ZoneAlarm, or to remove the 'Link Scanner' component of AVG (or remove AVG entirely). To cut this long story short - I discovered just yesterday that there is actually a 'known issue' with the 'Link Scanner' feature of AVG version 9.x's conflicting with ZoneAlarm, which has probably been around for many months. The problem seemed to go away for a couple of weeks recently - but just a couple of days ago the problem was back with vengeance, this time interfering with email accessing (Windows Live Mail Client).Įxperiments with stopping ZoneAlarm (free version) and/or AVG (free version) sometimes showed some improvement, but the problem really didn't go away - I even resorted to re-installing IE8 - problem still didn't go away. Curiously, after a tab would get stuck loading, and no amount of 'refreshing' helped - I then discovered that 'Duplicate Tab' would very often get the page loaded, even though the stuck Tab remained stubbornly stuck. Problems were (with IE8 on XP) - pages not loading, or stopping part way through loading and then hanging indefinitely - refreshing a page (tab) would sometimes help, but often would not. But keep in mind it’s a big (148MB) file.For many many months now I've been living with troublesome Internet browsing problems but I've just been putting up with it.įor a long while my ISP was having capacity and other issues, so I just waited for them to sort things out - however, after my ISP claimed to have everything fixed I continued to have problems. However if you’re installing it on multiple PCs via a network or flash drive they offer a full installer so you don’t waste time and bandwidth downloading the additional files for each installation. Lucky you can opt-out of each of these by unmarking the appropriate checkboxes within the installation wizard.īefore installing, the installation wizard must download additional files–another 34MB during my evaluation. If you’re a fan of another search engine–something other than Microsoft’s Bing–you’ll probably want to forgo changing your home page and search provider. The ZoneAlarm Security Toolbar can be useful for some users, especially if you customize it and add more apps, but can be annoying if you already have similar toolbars. When you install ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 2012 (I tested version 10.1.065), you’ll find product registration is required but you can opt-out of providing your email address if you wish, and only have to enter your name.īy default, it will install the ZoneAlarm Security Toolbar for Internet Explorer and make the Bing-powered ZoneAlarm web search site your default home page and search provider. Additionally, it includes 2GB of free online storage for backing up your files, also offered separately from ZoneAlarm. It does include anti-phishing to help detect and block dangerous sites, though. However, it doesn’t protect against Web-based exploits like some (but not all) other firewall solutions do. It’s a two-way firewall that’s designed to help protect your PC from hackers getting in and any malicious programs on your PC from sending data out. ZoneAlarm Free Firewall has been arguably the most popular third-party firewall for Windows.
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