cro-man Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 (edited) The advantage of the ZoneAlarm firewall over the built-in Vista firewall is that ZoneAlarm will only allow those programs you specifically ok to access the Internet.Microsoft's Vista firewall does allow this kind of outbound filtering, but the feature disabled by default. Not only that, it's hidden and buried - you can't even get to it through the normal Windows Firewall interface.ZoneAlarm's free firewall, by contrast, will display a pop-up if a new program attempts to access the Internet. That program will be blocked until you allow it.Check Point, ZoneAlarm's maker, says it is the first vendor to use Vista's Windows Filtering Platform API, but from the end-user's perspective I didn't see anything different in the interface compared to the XP version I've tried before.That interface includes plenty of pop-ups that you may or may not want, and that may or may not help. Outbound connection alerts can help to block malware that gets past your antivirus software and tries to send your stolen data to an Internet repository, for example, but you need to be know how to tell whether an alert is for a valid program or malware.License Type: FreePrice: FreeDate Added: Jun 2007Operating Systems: Windows VistaRequirements: Windows Vista onlyFile Size: 18000KBAuthor: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Download ZoneAlarm for VistaNote: this version of ZoneAlarm ONLY works with Vista. You can download the Windows XP and 2000 version here Edited June 27, 2007 by cro-man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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