Saturday, June 6, 2009

My Favorite Programs: Zonealarm

So I use Avg to protect myself from trojans and the like. But what how abouti nternet viruses that could be sneaking in inside my system? I use the free zonealarm. Zonelaram is like a firewall that asks protects certain downloaded files from accessing the internet and installing harmful programs to the computer. This program asks the user everytime a certain program or executable would like to accessthe internet.


The problem with this at first is that it gets a bit annoying during the first few days after install.This is because it will keep asking you if to trust or not to trust programs that want to connect to the internet. So once you open like internet explorer the first time after installing zonelarm, there is a pop-up asking if to grant accessor not. But after trusting the program, it doesnt ask for access the second time around. You can also view the connection of your internet on the taskbar of your internet connection is active or not. Its a light program to help you be protected from internet attacks.

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