ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus is an unusually versatile antivirus tool with a security suite-like list of extras, including a powerful firewall, integrated online backup, and daily credit monitoring and identity theft protection services for US users.
If you didn’t know ZoneAlarm was an antivirus developer, you were right, but that’s fine – the package bundles the excellent Kaspersky engine to keep malware at bay.
The free edition leaves out a lot of ‘premium protections’, including web and email monitoring, network file scanning, mailbox file scanning, and real-time cloud protection to keep you safe from the very latest threats. This isn’t quite as bad as it seems, because even if the program doesn’t check for threats in an email attachment or a download, it should pick them up when you access them as files. It’s still a concern, though, and these aren’t restrictions we’ve often seen in other free antivirus apps.
The commercial ZoneAlarm Pro Antivirus & Firewall 2018 restores these protections and adds others, including a Chrome anti-phishing extension. It’s priced from an initial $24.95 (£17.80) for a one-year, one PC license, $39.95 (£28.55) on renewal.
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Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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