ZoneAlarmReviews of zonealarm.com

Badly Programed! Good program if it did not fill up your hard drive with Sandblast files. This just has NOT been thought through at all, it is a badly thought through piece of software! Dont install it unless you have at least a 1TB hard drive!!!

Product seems ok at firewall and anti-virus functions. It has an ongoing massive problem doing its own updates. They freeze at 0% or get to 100% and then 'error'. The usual chat support solution is to uninstall it and reinstall, or that the version you are running it out of date and a fresh install is needed - can't even self-update when that happens and there is no proper notification of it. I have used this product for many years and have been in contact with support dozens and dozens of times to resolve the constant update problems. I end up wasting inordinate amounts of time fixing the program (uninstall, clean, reinstall and then re-register) because of it. Going to another brand now as fed up.

This "anti-virus" software simply passes all well known software such as Microsoft and labels the software of small companies as having a virus which they decline to describe. If you pay for this software, you are wasting your money!

After uninstalling ZoneAlarm, my internet was gone. So I have reached their support through another device and just said that: "Unfortunately, you got disconnected from chat earlier and I didn't know what happened. For free versions, you can join our online community and post your issue from there. Unfortunately, we do not have technical support for the free versions." The uninstaller should have been configured to disable and remove all of ZoneAlarm's components but the program sucks.

Indeed a shame (it pinched a few hundred gb, that's how I noticed). This used to be a reliable prog in the past. Avoid! Try GlassWire's Firewall - not free, but beautiful.

since i istalled zone alarm i cant remove folders and "services" names SandBlast ...... i need only a firewall and antivir , now i use the windows solution zonealarm you was so greate on the internets born

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.

Did the job for a few months, updated then completely destroyed the connection to the internet. Took me ages to work out what happened as many steam games were installed, windows update and ZoneAlarm. so thank you