App Review ZoneAlarm NextGen Extreme Security 2024

[Szellem]

I have problems with ZoneAlarm NextGen, the computer does not turn off anymore... Forced to shut down. Well, so I had an Eset license lying around, I uninstalled ZANG and installed Eset Smart Security, everything works fine now. Too bad!

This is not good news. But I read elsewhere that ZA can be buggy.

 

[simmerskool]

I have problems with ZoneAlarm NextGen, the computer does not turn off anymore... Forced to shut down. Well, so I had an Eset license lying around, I uninstalled ZANG and installed Eset Smart Security, everything works fine now. Too bad!

similar issues here with ZA, though I do have checkpoint harmony and it just works great, so I would expect the same from ZA...

 

[Kongo]

I tested ZoneAlarm for 2 days now and must say that I'm still facing the same stability issues as a couple months back. Programs don't start or have a 10 second delay, System feels much slower in general as ZA is utilizing 10% of the CPU while I'm doing absolutely nothing. I also faced multiple blue screens after restarting my PC when ZA was installed. ZoneAlarm has great features and a really good protection, but I don't know why they are failing so hard to make the AV more stable and bug-free. Gonna stick with Deep Instinct... Stable, fast and good protection.

 

[Vitali Ortzi]

I tested ZoneAlarm for 2 days now and must say that I'm still facing the same stability issues as a couple months back. Programs don't start or have a 10 second delay, System feels much slower in general as ZA is utilizing 10% of the CPU while I'm doing absolutely nothing. I also faced multiple blue screens after restarting my PC when ZA was installed. ZoneAlarm has great features and a really good protection, but I don't know why they are failing so hard to make the AV more stable and bug-free. Gonna stick with Deep Instinct... Stable, fast and good protection.

That's why I use only their extension with threat emulation and not their full av rather a lighter one (ESET )

But checkpoint has fantastic results in tests so once that's solved I would probably move to zonealarm

 

[simmerskool]

I tested ZoneAlarm for 2 days now and must say that I'm still facing the same stability issues as a couple months back. Programs don't start or have a 10 second delay, System feels much slower in general as ZA is utilizing 10% of the CPU while I'm doing absolutely nothing. I also faced multiple blue screens after restarting my PC when ZA was installed. ZoneAlarm has great features and a really good protection, but I don't know why they are failing so hard to make the AV more stable and bug-free. Gonna stick with Deep Instinct... Stable, fast and good protection.

I have DeepInstinct on my Host OS for 18+ mo, and Harmony on a VM Guest. Harmony is great but ZA buggy. Maybe checkpoint uses ZA as a beta

 

[Kongo]

I have DeepInstinct on my Host OS for 18+ mo, and Harmony on a VM Guest. Harmony is great but ZA buggy. Maybe checkpoint uses ZA as a beta

Update. Your. Security. Config.

 

[oldschool]

Update. Your. Security. Config.

Indeed. It's seriously out of date.
@simmerskool

 

[TuxTalk]

Maybe @simmerskool can also post his Linux configs.