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      Zone Alarm Takes Cyber-Security Into Non-Cyber World

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      Eric Lundquist
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      December 8, 2006
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        Zone Alarm Takes Cyber-Security Into Non-Cyber World

        Add Real-World Identity Protection While Protecting Your PC

        by Daniel P. Dern ([email protected])

        Vendor: Zone Labs LLC (part of Check Point Software Technologies) Product Name: Zone Alarm Internet Security Suite v6.5 Price (MSRP): single user $69.95; 3-user family pack $99.95, Availability: Now Product URL: www.zonealarm.com

        Tech Requirements: Windows 2000 or later

        ZoneLab’s ZoneAlarm has long been my choice and recommendation for

        a free firewall, despite its occasionally ornery user interface. Over the past several years, they’ve continued to add other security features — stateful packet inspection, “stealth mode” to shield against port scans, anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, and more — making it their Internet

        Security Suite my recommendation for a done-in-one desktop suite.

        But information/identify security problems don’t stop at the computer case. According to ZoneLabs’ presentation at the recent Ziff-Davis Digital Life Expo (www.digitallife.com) in New York City, “pre approved credit card lists are source of 90% of identity theft.”

        Version 6.5 of the suite now includes

        o Identity Theft Protection Service that also deal with the non-virtual

        world (through partnering deals, including first-year-free with

        Identity Guard (http://www.identityguard.com/fp.asp), and other free/fee services. (Annoyingly, the click-tab to get there from within ZoneAlarm may not work, depending what other browser(s) you’ve got, and how things are configured.)

        E.g. credit-card offer opt-out, lost/stolen wallet resolutions services, to cancel credit cards, and credit card theft detection checking

        online and card-issuer lists of stolen cards, and live phone help to recover from credit card theft. Users receive an alert if their credit card number appears on the Internet’s black market or other black lists (assuming you’re willing to give this information to ZoneLabs)

        o Spyware site blocking blocks users from visiting known spyware sites, blocks “drive-by downloads,” and blocks outbound traffic from spyware that managed to sneak on.

        o IDLock, keeps credit card, Social Security and other ID numbers/data from being sent from your PC without permission.

        o Game Mode, which suppresses firewall alerts, postpones antispyware/virus scans, to avoid disruption during a game

        And there’s also the option to sign up for real-world services (for additional fees) like regular credit monitoring, and ID theft insurance.

        Even if you don’t use all the free extra, or spring for the paid add-ons, you should consider a suite like ZoneAlarm.

        Eric Lundquist
        Since 1996, Eric Lundquist has been Editor in Chief of eWEEK, which includes domestic, international and online editions. As eWEEK's EIC, Lundquist oversees a staff of nearly 40 editors, reporters and Labs analysts covering product, services and companies in the high-technology community. He is a frequent speaker at industry gatherings and user events and sits on numerous advisory boards. Eric writes the popular weekly column, 'Up Front,' and he is a confidant of eWEEK's Spencer F. Katt gossip columnist.

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