ZoneAlarm 5 - You should be alarmed by it.

[gnuman]

ZoneAlarm 5 has been out not too long and with every new version there seems to be something wrong, or in this case many things wrong.

There has been many reviews complaining that ZA5 has broken a lot of things that used to work well in ZA4, some occurances are people who use IIS will find it does not work properly anymore.

Download\Upload speed is being hindered for some reason and reverting back to ZA4 has fixed the issue.

 

[moghrabi]

The best software firewall is Sygate personal firewall Pro. If the price is too much then Kerio is second. Stay away from ZA. It is a bloatware now as is Norton Interneet Security.
A firewall should be only a firewall and nothing else. Nowadays, they are including AV, popup blockers, email sapm filters in them. It is too much.

 

[gnuman]

I kinda liked McAfee Firewall Plus, although it was somewhat of a pain in the ass to configure for games but it was much easier than their previous version.

Bad thing about McAfee is that you need to use the McAfee Security center which bloats up, but gives you a better idea of what is running and an easy way to configure your program.

 

[snooker]

Hi ... I agree with Albinoor sygate is so far the best for me and do stay away from ZA