

Competiting antivirus applications were quicker and less resource heavy. Still, we found ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall to be resource intensive on our system and slowed our boot times down. The speed increase is a result of a redesigned scanning engine. Full scans will take some time but are still an improvement over older ZoneAlarm programs. Performance of ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall is very good. Users can also set it to allow all firewall requests, which is obviously less secure. One surprising feature of ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall is " Game Mode," which allows you to temporarily suspend ZoneAlarm's popup notifications for uninterrupted gaming. There is also phishing and spyware protection built in. The firewall will also give users a list of programs and their " Trust Level," which is a good way to quickly glance at suspicious applications. ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall's firewall features a log of the different programs that are accessing the internet. ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall will only check for new definitions once every 24 hours, while its paid versions will update as soon as new definitions are available. There is real-time protection against viruses, as well as auto updating definitions and scheduling.

ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall includes many powerful features for both their antivirus and firewall.
