Once respected, now Malware! Used to be a respected name for security stuff buy now it takes hold of your PC and hides parts of it making it nigh on impossible to remove even after using their 'Cleanup' tool. Still interferes with browsing.

Zone alarm melts your PC Zone alarm used to be great 10 years ago. I installed it recently because I was tired of Comodo interfering with other programs and me having to disable it regularly to play some games... When i installed ZoneAlarm i was satisfied initially. It does fulfill it's function. However, it somehow manages to make my PC suffer more than a UltraHD FPS. I was having issues with lag everytime I open Firefox because it seems to analyse every bite that comes through, in other words it's extremely unefficient. The breaking point was 5min ago when I got a Blue Screen Of Death because of it. NEVER AGAIN

Been using ZoneAlarm 20 years! Been using ZoneAlarm 20 years, Very rarely have any trouble, and never been hacked! All the people who say they have trouble work for competing companies, or are not using the setting correctly. You should study how to use full control, so you pick what gets blocked without shutting down your own internet. It can do exactly that if you screw it up. That is what happens to the novice users who don't use it correctly. Watch the instructive videos on YouTube. You can secure your computer with Zone Alarm like with NO other security program!

Check all your drives Check all your drives. Zonealarm creates hidden folders called SandBlastBackup and then picks personal files based on your internet surfing and document usage and stores them. (for what?) You cannot delete them until you uninstall Zonealarm. This is beyond shady and lame. It is a complete failure to respect consumer privacy and should be illegal. CheckPoint software is MALWARE! Do not be fooled by their clever language. They are spying on you and using your files and identity WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE. I found 3 sensitive business documents in one of these folders. There is NOTHING they can say to make that acceptable. Absolutely DISTURBING.

Installed it Installed it Next time i rebooted windows, windows would not boot up. I got that message page about problems with some options such as to do a FULL reset or try a system restore. I chose system restore....LUCKILY it worked. When Windows rebooted successfully, Zone Alarm was gone. One day later,eveything is still fine.