ZoneAlarm Extreme Security beta !!

Thanks! Looks nice. Checkpoint is really moving away from the old ZoneLabs branding hey? I do prefer the white blue and green. Just feels much more sanitized than the yellow and maroon.

Are they still using the old KAV SDK? (or rather has KAV released a new SDK?)

 

Well, same SDK with drivers been updated from time to time.
You find components from KAV 5 to KAV 7. Signature AV has not changed much anyway and AV heuristics is yet to show the great potential... may be in 8 work on AV heuristics signature will move faster.

I think ZA was really missing an http protection, this has been now patched by Force Field integration.
Look is more modern... although I am still fun of the old interface

Cheers,
Fax

 

So you are saying that the heuristics is not particularly effective and most of KAV's detections are signature based?

Also what about KAV's PDM. Is this similar to the OS Firewall in ZA?

 

Well, heuristics as anything else is improving, for the rest, ZA/ZAES and KAV/KIS are two different products with different features.

Yes, PDM is similar to ZA OS firewall.
But would not like to enter in the specific comparison. I own and run both and they are great security tools.

Cheers,
Fax

 

Re PDM and OS Firewall, not looking for a direct comparison. I just wanted to know if they were in the same class of products.

Re heuristics, I think it is important to make a comparison because it is an important part of the suite. If I get the full ZA suite, I want to know that the AV is strong and it is not the weakest link as it lacks the full heuristics engine in KAV.

 

Indeed, heuristics plays (so far) a minor role in overall protection as compared to the other tools you have in the suite from HIPS to the sandbox.

You have also to consider that the development of ZAFF have pushed a lot of efforts and resources into improving ZA own spyware engine. For example, in one last gigantic tests by Andreas Marx, ZA spyware detection was quite good and on top of KAV.

Again, at the end of the day they both provide excellent protection, the issue is more which one runs better on your system and which one you like most.

Cheers,
Fax

 

have you a link to this test ??

Best regards

stargate

 

Was discussed sometime ago on here on Wilders... its the one with all ++ and -. Sunbelt blog posted an overview of the results. Don't have at hand the link. Sorry.

EDIT: found it back....
http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ihs/alex/Results_2D2008m3b_US.xls_detection1.htm

Cheers,
Fax

 

For HTTP protection, is there any indication on at what price point forcefield will be included? It seems to me checkpoint is trying to further upsell. Instead of having ZASS being the most expensive and comprehensive, there will be another level up, ZA Extreme. I don't to have to pay for the most expensive package if I want some HTTP protection. Other vendors have HTTP scanning in the mid range packages.

 

No idea... sorry.
I guess ZAES will be cheaper than ZASS + ZAFF.

Fax

 

I was going to try this out until I saw they are still using KAV.

 

hi

and what`s bad on kav ??

stargate

 

KAV was actually a plus for me. Why are you not happy with KAV?

 

I have had the much discussed chkdsk issue on multiple PCs.

 

you have testet it with KAV and not ZASS ?

i think you should try the new extreme beta, i had no problems there with kaspersky...


Best regards

Stargate

 

Im currently running Extreme so far no PC slow down games seem to be responding well to it. I love the new interface and the intergration of Forcefeild is quite nice.

so far awsome its useing around 100 megs of mem at peak. witch vs the current feat set it has is not bad at all and means the majority of people now run around 2gigs to 4 gigs of memory. it should never be a issue.

I also like the intergration of KAV.

 

hi

a new beta version is available: http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/beta/zabeta.html

when someone find a bug, please send it to the ZA beta team.

from ZA forum:

Best regards

Stargate

 

100 megs is still quite bit. Under what conditions does it peak?

 

Running firefox with about 9 Tabs open. and having a sys scan in the background.. I know 100 megs is alot but comon in the age of people haveing gigs of memory its no diff then a program useing 30 megs with 512 when it was the norm. up with the times 100megs aint bad for system mem. if the program is doin its job right and besides it also has about 8 programs in it you cant expect it to run around 20 megs when its doin 10 diffrent things. you also have to think what you pay for protection you cant get it for nothing.. you always have to give something its a trade system =) its just what you are willing to live with and at 2gig's of mem It dont bug me

50 megs of that is Temp as soon as firefox closed that goes away due to Forcefield and its emulation enviorment I belive

 

On VISTA dual core and 4Giga RAM

Zlclient.exe 1.4MB
ForceField 3.6MB
vsmon: 45MB
2 Scanning process: 600kb each (when idle). 12-24MB when scanning.
ForceField integration: Depending on number of tabs/windows. Varies very much.

The key issue is how light it runs on your system not how much RAM it uses. Unless you have less than 1 GIGA RAM.

Cheers,
Fax

 

I hear what you are saying about the RAM. It doesn't mean though that programs should get bigger too. If developers created software without a 'everyone has more computing power' mindset, we might get cleaner and leaner code. I remember a while back, there was a thread linking to an article on comparing ram requirements of windows 2000 with office 2000 and vista with office 2007. The difference was HUGE!

Though if 50 megs if from virtualization, that figure of 100 megs seems more reasonable. What about overall system impact?

 

Always 1 step ahead of me

 

Eheh!

Cheers,
Fax

 

honestly I don't notice any slowdown Im a huge gamer so slowdown kills FPS so far World of Warcraft is caped at 60 no surprise there, all the other games I have tryed I have not noticed any fps drop or loading time drop. as for web its still zips around as if I had nothing on my system at all.

in all honestly I cant wait to see the finished product.

Edit.....
also just as a FYI Im not a poster boy for Zone alarm.. infact Norton ZA and a few others I could not stand becuse how slow the system got after installing and how deep into the system they dug them selfs. Im glad to see the system impact is lighting up seems like they are starting to listion to user's about how there products run as for ZAES. I like what I see and hope it continues time will only tell tho. I will be watching this one closely.

 

what about av section settings?
is there an exper mode?

Mike