New free ZoneAlarm

The new ZoneAlarm 8.0 looks seriously different with its light blue-tinted dialog boxes, but the protection program provider, has changed very little since the first version. And it is still free for all.

ZoneAlarm protects your computer from external attacks by putting all connections to the Internet in "stealth mode". Relations are not only closed the attackers - they are also invisible. The personal firewall protection is the program checks to ensure that only authorized programs can access your network or Internet. ZoneAlarm pops up the first time an application attempts to access the Internet or a network, and ask you as a user decide whether to allow or deny access program.

A new ZoneAlarm installation generates tons of these pop-up queries, but the blades of after a while. The benefits of the new version is that ZoneAlarm cut the pop-up windows by using a handy feature called Smart Defense Advisor, which automatically configures access for more than two million known programs. ZoneAlarms new version still calls on the user's choice of each program, which first tries to connect to the Internet. In fact, it pops up to ask whether his own Spy Blocker toolbar should be allowed access.

If pop-ups irritate you, and you're 110 percent sure that your system is free of malware, you might consider activating "Learning Mode". This will certainly cut down on pop-ups. But if a malicious program is present, then it will also get free games.

With ZoneAlarm, you get a separate program to configure access to the Internet, which acts as a server to receive incoming connections. It is easy to operate, for example. have made a mistake with the program permissions, so you just make the program list.