Zone Labs debuts anti-spyware firewall

[lotuseclat79]

http://www.physorg.com/news7396.html

-- Tom

[Kerodo]

Can someone explain this one? How is it any different from ZA Pro 6? What exactly does it do? Their web site is a little vague..

Edit: Just checked it out, looks like the new one is just ZAP less the Theft and Privacy features. So, for $20 less, I think I'd take the new one! :)

[JRosenfeld]

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/comparison.jsp?content7=show#1

[unhappy_viewer]

There is no difference. ZA 6.0 already has the triple-defense firewall in place in ZA 6.0. The news article is very outdated.

[ronjor]

Another bit of info. (http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=172302573)

[Kerodo]

Seems really odd that they would take ZAP and strip off the Privacy features and then sell it for $20 less. I wonder what their reasoning is?

[unhappy_viewer]

-{ Quote: "Seems really odd that they would take ZAP and strip off the Privacy features and then sell it for $20 less. I wonder what their reasoning is?" }-
Not exactly sure where you got that from. ZAP still has privacy features and was sold at USD$49.95 for a very long time. What ZAP does not have that ZASS has is the spam filtering feature, anti-phising feature, AV, and parental controls but that has always been the case since Day 1.

[Kerodo]

We're talking about the new ZA anti-spyware product here. Looks like they just took ZAP and removed the Privacy features, and are selling it for $29.95, $20 less than ZAP.

See the link: http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_zaas.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=&lang=en&lid=ho_zaas

[unhappy_viewer]

-{ Quote: "We're talking about the new ZA anti-spyware product here. Looks like they just took ZAP and removed the Privacy features, and are selling it for $29.95, $20 less than ZAP.

See the link: http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/sku_list_zaas.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=&lang=en&lid=ho_zaas" }-
Sorry I thought you were talking about ZA Pro since you had ZAP written in your post.:-[

Anyway I guess its because people wanted the OSFirewall and antispyware feature without the other privacy and AV features. I would be similar to ZA with AV. Just the AV without the other frills of ZASS.

[Kerodo]

Well, I did install this new ZAAS tonight, just to have a look, and it is indeed identical to ZAP with the exception of the Privacy features, which are missing.

Unfortunately, it will not accept my current valid ZAP serial/key, so that forces me to continue using ZAP if that were what I wanted to run.

It is interesting that they are presenting this as a new product. I suppose if I were buying ZAP or ZAAS for the first time, I would choose to skip the Privacy features in ZAP and just go for the newer ZAAS for $20 less. Small price to pay and you get everything else for just $29.95. Not bad.

So I would say this is just another marketing experiment on their part..

[Graystoke]

Is Zone Alarm's Anti-Spyware better than Microsoft's Anti-Spyware? Just wondering since MSAS is free, and you can get ZA for free. Is ZA's firewall/anti-spyware worth the money?

[Kerodo]

You might find the comparison of features in item #3 in this page interesting:

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/support/zaas/generalFAQs.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry=&lang=en

[Graystoke]

Hmmm. I think I'll stay with MSAS for now. No use changing something that works.:)