Zonealarm Reviews

Computer crashing nagware

I used their free firewall for years without problems However this year they decided to change it to nagware with a popup advert every time I started my computer No major problem you might think except every day the nagware caused my computer to completely freeze and need to be restarted wasting valuable time So I uninstalled and changed to a non-nagware firewall and problem solved no more freezing computer

You are paying well almost 600 00 in

You are paying over 600 00 in ten years almost 300 in 5 years for a firewall At the end of the year you DO NOT own the software If you stop paying you lost it all You are better off purchasing hardware for the same cost Stay away from unnecessary subscription based apps It simply is a waste of money Antivirus software is subscription because updates on virus definitions are done Firewalls need NONE Just silly to throw your money away on this

It kept freezing my browsers and it stops me from making and receiving skype calls

Its security is way too paranoid that it make internet surfing a hell of an experience It slows down my connection and it kept freezing my browser tabs It also blocks skype Embedded videos on forums You cannot play them neither

Massive slow-downs BSODs

Installs and runs background apps that cause massive stutters and slowdowns regardless of your CPU power Their anti-ransomware fills up your disk every time you have the audacity to actually use the Internet Can t fully remove without a Windows reset reinstall or a lot of looking into hidden folders to delete components manually Broke my Windows and now I have to deal with the cursed netio sys BSOD far too often I had been using ZoneAlarm on-and-off for over a decade but the software is disastrous at the moment and I won t be returning

horrible

horrible once you uninstall it leave all leftover tools running on services at task manager and there is no solution to remove checkpoint or zone alarm ransomware protection running wise its horrible do not download and fall for free service

Check all your drives

Check all your drives Zonealarm creates hidden folders called SandBlastBackup and then picks personal files based on your internet surfing and document usage and stores them for what You cannot delete them until you uninstall Zonealarm This is beyond shady and lame It is a complete failure to respect consumer privacy and should be illegal CheckPoint software is MALWARE Do not be fooled by their clever language They are spying on you and using your files and identity WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE I found 3 sensitive business documents in one of these folders There is NOTHING they can say to make that acceptable Absolutely DISTURBING

Once respected now Malware

Used to be a respected name for security stuff buy now it takes hold of your PC and hides parts of it making it nigh on impossible to remove even after using their Cleanup tool Still interferes with browsing

Useless

I have paid for the next generation product for up to5 machines I have installed it on 2 I have installed it on a 3rd machine and it is showing a trial version I have contacted Live Chat that was as much use as a chocolate teacup Problem not solved I gave up in the end

Zone alarm melts your PC

Zone alarm used to be great 10 years ago I installed it recently because I was tired of Comodo interfering with other programs and me having to disable it regularly to play some games When i installed ZoneAlarm i was satisfied initially It does fulfill it s function However it somehow manages to make my PC suffer more than a UltraHD FPS I was having issues with lag everytime I open Firefox because it seems to analyse every bite that comes through in other words it s extremely unefficient The breaking point was 5min ago when I got a Blue Screen Of Death because of it NEVER AGAIN