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ZoneAlarm has decided to give away their anti-spyware application for free. This offering is valid only for 24 hours starting from November 13th 7AM to November 14th 5PM PST. They say it works fine with Windows XP/2000; I guess they don’t support Vista yet.
Here’s why ZoneAlarm is giving their software for free and why they want you to use it:
"Every month, Microsoft® offers users patches to update Windows and Internet Explorer to help protect them against newly-discovered product vulnerabilities. But as soon as Microsoft makes their announcement, hackers are already finding ways to exploit users who may not download the patches immediately.
The security experts behind ZoneAlarm urge you to always patch your operating systems and browsers whenever an update is available. More importantly, take extra precautions to protect your PC for those times when a patch may not be available. That’s why we are offering you ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware for FREE today, Patch Tuesday, only. Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to protect your PC and stay safe online!"
I don’t see plenty of reason to ditch my current Anti-Spyware (Windows Defender), but since their software would otherwise cost me $19.95, I decided to get a license and keep it. Ironically, their homepage claims that they have been given "CNet Editors’ Choice" award, but CNet writes that ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware doesn’t find as much spyware as some popular free programs and requires a lot of user intervention; offers poor support options.
Go their site and get your copy of ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware which holds well until November 12, 2008
[Via: CyberNet -> Net Security]
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wrote, on November 15th, 2007
I like Windows Defender as well.. I think its worked good enough for me, but off-late have been observing that Windows Defender finds it with the next update after the spyware is popular…
But for now I’m still sticking to defender!!
wrote, on November 15th, 2007
As for me this is just a question of preference - I like Anti-Keylogger(www.anti-keyloggers.com) as it gives real-time protection and do not use signatures, but it protects only from keyloggers. So I also use Ad-Aware(www.lavasoftusa.com), but never turn it in monitoring mode… I use it only for scanning.
wrote, on November 15th, 2007
ZoneAlarm also keeps marking Gamespy Arcade as a threat which is quite annoying.