New ZA Antivirus 9 Beta

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  1. fax

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    Sorry... corrected the text to make it clearer :)
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    fax, Aug 16, 2009
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    any screenshots of this?
     
    firzen771, Aug 19, 2009
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    They usually give more priorities to real innovations rather than GUI changes (thankfully). New firewall, New antivirus engine, New heuristic engine in FF... not enough new? :D
     
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    wuldnt call it innovation... i call it updating...
     
    firzen771, Aug 19, 2009
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    Updating is the generic definition for changing something (e.g. bug fixes, etc) ... innovation is something more than changing. It can be gradual, it can be radical. It is something new that was not there before.

    This is the case for what I have mentioned above. New antivirus engine (radically changed), new firewall proprietary protections (rootkits, hardening against malware) and new heuristic engine in FF sandbox :)

    You can call it updating, upgrading or innovative implementations in current platform.

    But NO the GUI is the SAME :D .. just kidding and wish you all happy testing if you have the courage!!
     
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    How is the memory usage on ZA9 compared to ZA8? I am using ZAIS8 and have 17 days until my current subscription expires and am very hesitant to renew because of the decently large memory footprint.




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    yonton228, Aug 20, 2009
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    Memory footprint is much lower now. I am using ZAES 9 beta its using about 50MB in idle state. :)
    But beware (in beta) ZA still causes slow start-up. It takes ages for ZAES to load up all modules during cold boot.

    So tough love ...
     
    vijayind, Aug 20, 2009
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    New ZASS 9 will be between 15 and 35MB overall (vsmon + zlclient). Range according to the system and running applications. No more double or triple scanningprocess.exe in memory :)

    Cheers,
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    fax, Aug 20, 2009
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    That is a huge :thumb: in my book.




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    yonton228, Aug 21, 2009
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    Indeed, a major step forward finally :)

    Cheers,
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    fax, Aug 21, 2009
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    Hopefully you have reported it since here on an old (BUT very OLD) laptop ZA extreme cause little delays... around 30 seconds :). On an almost up-to-date VISTA machine (3 years old) is around 10 seconds.

    In October time for killing VISTA for windows 7 :D

    Cheers,
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    fax, Aug 21, 2009
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    I usually test betas on my old box first, there ZAES is extreme slow in startup. But even on new Vista machine, there is sizable boot up lag.
    Esp. in view of new 2010 version of other vendors it looks huge. But its beta2, still a long way to production.
     
    vijayind, Aug 21, 2009
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    Uuuhm, not really...
    Should be out in September considering their ads "buy now and get 2010 in September" :)

    Cheers,
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    fax, Aug 22, 2009
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  16. vijayind

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    In that case ...."Houston, we have a problem..." :doubt:

    Lets see the final version. After that I'll break out my conspiracy theories and 2012 doom predictions.
    Thank as always for the info. :)
     
    vijayind, Aug 23, 2009
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    so are you saying the free firewall you provide, if it remains free will be part of this new innovation and improved?
     
    dell boy, Aug 23, 2009
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    ZA Free firewall has always been with a reduced feature set. So I would imagine a large part of the new HIPS will be only for paying customers.
     
    vijayind, Aug 23, 2009
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    i dont mean just the hips, firewall also, i had zone alarm long ago, when it was just zone alarm, avg and ad-aware, the freebies, but now times have changed and it seems atm there is better alternatives to all of those, if zone alarm produced a good firewall/hips i might be tempted to return to it...
     
    dell boy, Aug 23, 2009
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    I think ZA will remain as it is just the firewall, no HIPS, no Sandbox... IMO makes little sense to do more, the 'market' of free firewall is super saturated.

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    fax, Aug 23, 2009
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    no no thats not what i ment, what i ment was, is this innovative new firewall going to be put into the free version also, if so then people may start using it over stuff like comodo or online armor
     
    dell boy, Aug 23, 2009
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    A firewall is a firewall... you can't be so innovative unless you start adding things that are not a packet filtering related (i.e. not a firewall) :)

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    fax, Aug 23, 2009
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    But........ does ZA still cause extreme delays in boot-up o_O
     
    DVD+R, Aug 23, 2009
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  24. dell boy

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    no, a firewall isnt just a firewall, some are better than others, some are less resource hogging than others.
    an antivirus is just an antivirus, they detect and remove malware, unless you add new things like heuristics ( i.e. not an antivirus):)
     
    dell boy, Aug 24, 2009
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    Of course, they use more or less CPU/RAM and ZA free 9 will use less memory than version 8, but this was not the point... we were speaking about innovations/adding in the firewall technologies :)

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    fax, Aug 24, 2009
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