What do people think of ZoneAlarm compared to other AV

OldComputerGuy7 · 16 Dec 2008 at 18:11

What do you guys think of zonealarm i have been using it for a while and find it works well for me, but i did wonder if there were any other AV/Firewall suites that were better in some way as i do find zonealarm seems to slow my system down some when running, not having much experience with other AV software other than AVG Free and Norton a long while ago.
Just wondered if there was something that worked better or was a bit less of system hog, what would you guys recommend to try out.

Caseh · 16 Dec 2008 at 18:17

For free, you cant really beat AntiVir or Avast!

For paid, i guess the normal; Nod32 and Kaspersky

gillywibble · 16 Dec 2008 at 18:21

Zonealarm is a resource hog.

Wiggins · 16 Dec 2008 at 18:24

If you really need a firewall then I would recommend Commodo Firewall. Install and just disable the 'defense'.

With AV I would say Antivir. I installed it on a clients laptop the other day after finding a stream of trojans and it found and deleted every one of them.

All free and very good imo.

LoadsaMoney · 16 Dec 2008 at 19:24

Its rubbish imo, i used it for a few years before switching to Comodo, never looked back.

Grimley · 16 Dec 2008 at 19:32

LoadsaMoney said:
Its rubbish imo, i used it for a few years before switching to Comodo, never looked back.

+1. I used it until a windows update killed my internet access. Comodo is much better.

reflux · 16 Dec 2008 at 19:37

Best ones are probably NOD32, Kaspersky and Comodo IMO.

IAmATeaf · 16 Dec 2008 at 20:32

I dumped ZA a few years ago after getting annoyed with it. Install ZA and everything would be fine but then after a few weeks it would delay the start of my desktop, de-install and re-install with clean settings would always fix it again but I got sick of doing this.

milkinc13 · 16 Dec 2008 at 21:22

had ZA yonks ago, did the basic's but as said there are better free ones

OldComputerGuy7 · 17 Dec 2008 at 07:39

Thanks for the info, im trying out comodo at the moment. my system seems to be booting slightly quicker and generally a bit snappier allready plus it seems to use less resources too.

bledd · 17 Dec 2008 at 09:29

ZA is a virus

more often than not, a ZA user is also a wielder of this..

premist · 17 Dec 2008 at 09:34

gillywibble said:
Zonealarm is a resource hog.

What he said