Though no updates have officially been reported by ZoneAlarm (expert rules for the firewall with port configuration and all these bells and whistles coming next + anti malware Yara rules), I decided to test it today quickly.
The situation with the super long malware remediation and the long EFR (Endpoint Forensics Recorder) activity seems to be resolved.
Previously, after malware remediation, the EFR CPU usage used to go as high as 50%.
In HEP, the EFR memory usage, as well as redundant operations were reduced.
ZoneAlarm seems to have been updated too, looking at the task manager now, there is barely any activity from the EFR (which monitors and records every operation for behavioural blocking, anti-bot and anti-ransomware). There were spikes (like 10%) but they are very brief, for less than a second.
The memory usage has also been reduced in ZA, previously the EFR process used to consume around 250 MB on a 16 GB system, now it has been reduced to 130 average.
The system definitely feels lighter and snappier.
The situation with the super long malware remediation and the long EFR (Endpoint Forensics Recorder) activity seems to be resolved.
Previously, after malware remediation, the EFR CPU usage used to go as high as 50%.
In HEP, the EFR memory usage, as well as redundant operations were reduced.
ZoneAlarm seems to have been updated too, looking at the task manager now, there is barely any activity from the EFR (which monitors and records every operation for behavioural blocking, anti-bot and anti-ransomware). There were spikes (like 10%) but they are very brief, for less than a second.
The memory usage has also been reduced in ZA, previously the EFR process used to consume around 250 MB on a 16 GB system, now it has been reduced to 130 average.
The system definitely feels lighter and snappier.
