ZoneAlarm Free AV &FW Memory

As anyone noticed that the latest version is much lower in memory consumption?

ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall version: 11.0.000.054
Vsmon version: 11.0.000.054
Driver version: 11.0.000.026
Antivirus engine version: 8.3.0.13
Antivirus signature DAT file version: 1083908896
Web Identity Protections version: 1.5.393.22

vsmon.exe used to be around 290k now its about 48k.

Ice

 

Is your ZA working correctly? The DAT number should be much higher. Like 1111XXXX. Or may be you just installed it and not updated the AV?

 

thanks Fax, you are right. I needed to update the virus definitions and vsmon.exe went up to 210k.

Ice

 

Thanks for posting about this, Ice. I didn't realize there had been a version update. I run ZA-AV Free on my wife's laptop, and both my kids desktops. I know what I'll be doing tonight, now.. I was also hoping you were right about the memory use, but oh well, still runs light enough as is.

 

Has anyone been able to run ZA Antivirus + Firewall and MBAM at the same time?

 

Good Evening ! Just last week I installed the latest version and it's much quicker and responsive. Only one small glitch...I'm using Firefox 18.0 and apparently Zone Alarm wasn't making connection with Firefox...it stated it's protection was disabled. Anyone else experienced this? Sincerely...Securon

 

Yes, browser plug-in not yet there with FF18 only FF17. No ETA for the fix.

 

I'm just running the firewall - I see ForceField is running and there's a plugin for IE9, but nothing showing up in Cyberfox 18.01 (64 bit Firefox build) I thought ForceField was a browser sandbox. What is its function here? Also, when I installed I opted to not include the toolbar. Does it provide additional protection and if so can it be added, or would I have to uninstall/reinstall?

 

Yes, the forcefield was including a sandbox feature and keylogging/screengrab jammer as well as a web site check (reputation). In current versions of ZA forcefield component only check the reputation of the site you are visiting based on a number of criteria (SSL certificate, creation date, presence in database of known malware/spyware distributor, etc) and blocks it (red banner) or warns you (yellow banner). It is indipendent from the toolbar that would additionally allow the actual checking of the credentials of any website you are visiting (site check button in the toolbar itself). I don't think it can be installed ex-post.

Currently it only supports IE 9/10 and Firefox 17.X.

Hope this helps

 

Thanks for the explanation. When you say it only supports IE9/10 and FF17 is that true for the toolbar as well as the forcefield component? Would the toolbar be available in FF18?

 

Mainly the forcefield component does not support FF18, not sure about the toolbar itself. Normally it is also killed by FF. In any case, without forcefield the toolbar is largely useless (unless you are interested in the search engine, shortcut to private mode or facebook link).