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The difference in protection rate was marginal (99.6% versus 99.5%), but keep in mind that AV-Comparatives was assessing the full Kaspersky Internet Security.

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While that's great, Avast Free Antivirus was rated even higher in the report, at equal fifth place. It's much easier to block threats if you raise the 'suspicious' bar so high that you catch many legitimate packages, too.) Trend Micro managed third place, but also raised 47 false positives.

It didn't raise a single false alarm across all five tests, beating everybody else. ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus isn't assessed by the major testing labs, or even the minor ones, most probably because it uses the standard Kaspersky engine rather than one of its own.Ĭhecking Kaspersky's own results in the lab reports gives a general idea of ZoneAlarm's likely effectiveness.ĪV-Comparatives' July to November 2018 Real-World Protection Test summary showed Kaspersky Internet Security rating a capable seventh place out of 18. ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus conducting a system scan (Image Credit: ZoneAlarm) Protection

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Storage space is very limited at just 5GB, but it could be handy, and you can upgrade to 150GB for $4.95 (£3.66) a month. ZoneAlarm's online backup is also outsourced, this time via IDrive (opens in new tab). It's only available to US users, unfortunately, but if you don't have any similar service it could justify installing ZoneAlarm Free all on its own. ZoneAlarm's identity theft protection feature is actually a free one-year subscription to Identity Guard's Good Start plan, a simple service which enables daily monitoring of your credit bureau file, raises alerts about any significant changes and gives you unlimited toll-free support.

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The firewall is smart enough to know how to handle most situations all on its own, but security or network experts can also adjust its settings to suit their needs. Installing the antivirus also gets you ZoneAlarm Firewall, a very capable way to block network attacks and control what your installed applications can do online. Heading off to the Settings dialog displays a few basic options - 'skip if the object is greater than x MB', for instance - but nothing to match the more advanced competition.Įasily configure ZoneAlarm Firewall right from within ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus (Image Credit: ZoneAlarm) That might become an issue if the main scan could take another hour. If the program is grinding its way through a lengthy full system scan, for instance, you can't run a right-click scan from Explorer as the ZoneAlarm > Scan option is greyed out. We noticed a small usability issue in ZoneAlarm's inability to run two scans simultaneously. Avast and Comodo go much further by enabling you to set up a combination of areas to scan, define low-level details of how the scan works, and even schedule the scan to run automatically when you're not around. You can sort-of get around this by right-clicking an object in Explorer and selecting ZoneAlarm > Scan, but that's hardly convenient. Unusually, ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus doesn't allow you to run a custom scan from the interface, not even to scan a particular folder or drive. It's still only a click away, though, and gives you access to the program's three scan types: Quick, Full, and Full Scan With Archives. Meanwhile the function you're most likely to need, Scan, is tucked away as a tiny menu item. The bulk of the console is taken up with three panels displaying the status of its antivirus, firewall and identity theft modules, for instance, but most of the space is wasted with text descriptions of what each module does and three arguably unnecessary View Details buttons. The ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus interface is something of a mess, cluttered with unnecessary elements and more awkward to use than it needs to be.

ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus puts all the controls of its antivirus, firewall and identity protection at your fingertips (Image Credit: ZoneAlarm) Features

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