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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