** New Release **: ZoneAlarm antivirus-firewall combo 10

So they "designed" their program to take 10x more RAM than many of their competitors? Wonderful!

I will load it back up tonight, and check what the peak memory & virtual memory use is.

 

... key point is....

In other words... its not about the RAM use but how well it runs on the system...
Some of you will never liked it some others will not care as far as it works as intended. Some others will have problems (old system with lack of memory). Some others will have problems even if with 8GIGA. You simply can't generalise... less RAM better the tool is...

Btw, Have you ever tried to measure the RAM usage of a web browser? Open a couple of sites in multiple tabs in Chrome and you can easily have more than 200MB of RAM usage, try the same with IE9 and you will get even more. This has actually no impact on the system unless you have no RAM to offer.

 

Decided to give this free suite a try alongside Kingsoft AV.

Though from the tests I saw, the multiple popups looked a little confusing like AVG but worse. Also, the file download window doesn't match the new interface at all. :\

 

How is it? Does it "feel" light? Not including ram usage* I wanted to try it out today but I was busy with other stuff

 

Opening of windows and browsers was noticably slow, and browsing speed went down as well. I uninstalled it and moved on to F-Secure.

 

Do you think it's a great idea to test this suite with another AV installed?

 

Please note that Kingsoft AV is compatible with other security solutions

 

webroot too

 

Wow the Ram usage wasn't as high as before it is only 60k here

 

The poster was complaining of poor browsing speed etc. How does he know if this is attributable to ZoneAlarm if he is running other AV software at the same time?

 

I was not "complaining". Kelvin asked a question and I answered.

I am pretty sure I know what I am doing. Anyways, those issues happened before I had even attempted to install KAV.

 

I did notice a slowdown on the pc startup with this installed. As for browser speed, I did not experience any slowdown. The memory consumption was on the high side.

Ice

 

when i installed the Parental Control it really slowed down everything browsing and the computer started to hit the cpu. uninstalled and is just ok ( ZA extreme)

 

** UPDATE ** ZoneAlarm version 10.2.068.000

• Added: Stop all internet activity option
• Added: Snooze Firewall for 5 mins option
• Improved: Security toolbar
• Improved: Installer
• Fixed issue: Riskware options usability
• Fixed issue: Various other improvements and fixes

http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-free-antivirus-firewall.htm

 

When we will see something like
Fixed issue:high memory usage?

 

** UPDATE ** ZoneAlarm version 10.2.072.000

http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-free-antivirus-firewall.htm

 

thanks for the heads up.

 

Running ZA Extreme Security on my computer and its great. Love the GUI as there are so many options & features. Web browsing speeds are fast and no excess CPU usage occurring.

Installed the free version on another computer and it runs efficiently as well. Probably the best free security suite out there at the moment.

 

Is it not possible to set AV scan times in this new ZA Free+AV? Mine are greyed-out.

 

All that is greyed out is not in the free version, sorry.

Btw, a follow up article on the AV-test.org by PCMAG:
http://securitywatch.pcmag.com/none/300959-most-antivirus-products-improve-in-latest-av-test-report

 

Thanks for the reply. I had already seen the av-test.org report. Thanks

I think that I will try Comodo FW+AV free version 5.10.xx. It auto updates AV every 45 minutes, allows scheduled scanning date/time and has received some very positive reviews and high ratings on some FW/AV tests. Sorry to see that av-test.org did not include it.

 

Well, good luck then...

 

** UPDATE ** ZoneAlarm version 10.2.073.000

http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-free-antivirus-firewall.htm

 

There are two options regarding Databse Update now, one partial and the other a full database update.

If i choose the full database option, will it still require to download a big update after installation like previous version?

 

You mean the AV? As far as I know no, it will not require you to have the big download after, if you have opted to do it before. It would be weird (bug) if otherwise