[dba-Tech] Zonealarm v5

Zonelabs have brought out version 5 of their firewall, and having installed
it on my brothers pc when I was rebuilding it, it's great - got loads of
extra features, and is more stable than before.
 
So I tried to install it on my pc at home, and a box pops up and says
"Install cannot run because you are running McAfee Security Centre. Please
disable this before running setup again". So hang on, you want me to
uninstall my virus scanner to install a firewall? I'm not using McAfee
firewall cos it's awful... what's interfering? So I read the text on the
website - in their infinite wisdom, Zonelabds have added a virus scanner to
their firewall. Well that makes sense. Surely more people have a virus
scanner and no firewall than have a firewall and no virus scanner... are
they going to release weekly updates like Symantec and McAfee do?
 
I looked at the "help" pages... so far, their only solution is to uninstall
your virus scanner, install the firewall and disable the virus scan bit,
then install your virus scanner again. I suppose you'd have to do this every
time they released a new version of the firewall, probably 7 times a year or
so. I don't know about the other AV systems, but when you install McAfee, it
downloads every update in order from the one included on the cd, and
installs them. At the moment, this takes 45 minutes, even with a DSL
connection. That's a hassle I don't want to be doing more than once a year
at most.
 
So I'm looking at downgrading my subscription to Zonealarm, although the
other versions don't offer all the other features of the firewall - I bought
the Pro version, because it has ad blocking, and all sorts of other useful
bits, which the others don't come with. So because they decided to include
AV, all the customers get screwed over. Does downgrading mean I'll get some
money back from the licence I bought? No, I think not... Nice one lads. 
 
 
Jon


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