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Zone Alarm 5 Beta Review

Posted by timothy on from the permeable-membrane dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZoneAlarm is getting ready to announce version 5 of its security software firewall, ZoneAlarm. Though there are a few changes that are presently available on the new beta, this review mentions that there are still many security issues to resolve. Grc.com scan reveals that ZoneAlarm Beta 5 failed to close port 25 and fails to give useful information to the user about possible security services being shut off."

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  1. Wait, do we respect Gibson now? by WereTiger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IIRC GRC.com was the haven of a sanctimonious blow-hard, why would anyone go so far as to use tools provided by him as a defacto security test of a new firewall?

    Just my 2 cents.

    Wonder if Zonealarm has addressed the issue that was brought forth about version 4, which is that it's hook into the tcp/ip stack could be hijacked by malware.

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