

Game Mode: Optimizes the performance of your online gaming programs, giving you the option to temporarily suspend security alerts, virus definition updates, and automatic scans.30-day satisfaction guarantee - or your money back. Support: Free customer support (24/7 online help), including in-depth information resources.Blocks attempts to remotely seize control of your camera, mic, and more. ZoneAlarm Mobile Security – iOS: Warns you if your device is connected to unencrypted or unsecured WiFi networks.Threat Emulation PREMIUM: Opens email attachments and web downloads in a virtual cloud environment to see if they’re safe.Anti-Ransomware: An award-winning solution that uses enterprise-grade technology to detect Ransomware attacks, block them and immediately restore any encrypted files.Scans URLs to prevent you from entering your personal information on websites that are known to carry security threats. Protects your private information from phishing attacks while you browse online. Anti-Phishing: Included in Web Secure Chrome Extension.

Advanced Firewall: Monitors programs for suspicious behavior spotting and stopping new attacks that bypass traditional antivirus protection.Antivirus & Anti-Spyware Engine: Detects and removes the most recent viruses, spyware, Trojan horses, worms, bots and rootkits.There are a lot of advanced controls, particularly for the firewall, but you're under no obligation to go delving under the bonnet unless you need precise control over the way in which your PC communicates with both the internet and the rest of your network.

The interface by which you control and access all of these isn't particularly polished, but everything's clearly labelled. ZoneAlarm has plenty of extra features, including 2GB of online backup space, a web security tool to alert you of dangerous and fraudulent websites, malicious email and spam prevention, and a jammer to flummox malicious key loggers and screen grabbers. ZoneAlarm also crashed occasionally, particularly when detecting and removing malicious software, although this was never to the detriment of its ability to defend our PC.

Nothing was blocked by default, but the high incidence of suspicious behaviour warnings for non-malicious programs could unnerve more wary users. However, 40 per cent of files (eight applications) triggered a warning or notification of some sort. Most of our harmless false positive test software was either not scanned at all or was correctly passed through as non-malicious.
