Zone Alarm .. Free Edition ??
Author
Discussion

PassatFSI

Original Poster:

541 posts

242 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2007
quotequote all
Mornin' Folks

On Sunday I got a message up on my screen saying I had to update my Free Edition of Zone Alarm. "Fine, Fair Enough" I said and clicked on the box. I went through the stages of updating and then suddenly another box came up saying that Zone Alarm were giving out FREE 15 day trials & I was able to take it. It was giving Anti-Virus & Anti-Spyware, so i thought "What The Heck, Its Only 15 Days" and took it.

It has slowed my computer down by a considerable amount therefore I decided to put my computer clock forward past the 15 days so that it would delete. Sure enough It did and I am left with the Free Edition I had at the start. It states that I have to set it all up by intilizing and this may only take a few moments. I open the window for this to begin and it takes over 20 minutes of intilizing before I give up.

Would I be better uninstalling Zone Alarm completly and downloading it again ??
The question is, where do I download it from ?? as I got it off a mate who had it on a disc but he has sadly passed away since then.

Cheers
PassatFSI

morningside

24,147 posts

260 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2007
quotequote all

onomatopoeia

3,526 posts

248 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2007
quotequote all
My boss has had similar problems with ZA this week. I had little sympathy as I wont have anything like it on my PCs hehe

irm

2,423 posts

252 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2007
quotequote all


mmmm no issues here but we use the security suite

u can down load from the zonealarms web site


www.zonealarm.com/store/content/home.jsp

but there are plenty of others if not happy

www.snapfiles.com/

police state

4,380 posts

251 months

Tuesday 3rd April 2007
quotequote all
onomatopoeia said:
My boss has had similar problems with ZA this week. I had little sympathy as I wont have anything like it on my PCs hehe



What do you recommend then?

that daddy

19,463 posts

252 months

Wednesday 4th April 2007
quotequote all
I have always used the free firewall only,AVG for me antivirus,never had any problems.

yellowtr

1,190 posts

257 months

Wednesday 4th April 2007
quotequote all
Here is a very handy site for the free versions of Zone Alarm-not remotely moody either!

www.oldversion.com

Uninstall the old version carefully-ZA is a nightmare when the uninstall goes belly up.

mcflurry

9,191 posts

284 months

Wednesday 4th April 2007
quotequote all
yellowtr said:

Uninstall the old version carefully-ZA is a nightmare when the uninstall goes belly up.


Tell me about it. Wasted an hour of my weekend fixing it.
That's why ZA is no longer on my machine....

Scraggles

7,619 posts

255 months

Wednesday 4th April 2007
quotequote all
had that pile of poop years back, blocked my programs and would not let them out

using agnitum outpost, they have a free version for newbs and business users should not be relying on home based software, the T&C usually prohibit companies from using the free versions as they are for residential customers only but guess they not care about copyright