Zone Alarm VS Zone Alarm Pro

[Matt615]

What are the differences between the two?? Is ZAP really much better than ZA????? :confused:

[chimdogger]

Yes!

[Marine06]

Compliments of SecurityPortal:

Regular ZoneAlarm:

General security levels "low," "medium," and "high," are available, for the Internet and local (i.e. trusted) network interfaces.

The network interface which is trusted (local) can also be chosen (useful to protect a dialup, but not an Ethernet connection, for instance). However, if you use dialup for both Internet and intranet access, it's problematic (see below).

Specific trusted hosts can be added, but not which services you wish to allow.

ZA detects running network applications and provides a list. Each application can be allowed to receive incoming connections, on either the local or Internet connection (or both). ZA looks at the application's file header and directory location to identify the application.

The configuration GUI allows application security to be changed afterwards, to all/deny connections or prompt for permission to connect.

Download size: 1.5MB.

Cost: free for personal use, $20 for business use.

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ZoneAlarm Pro:

Everything that ZoneAlarm offers Plus:

The Pro version costs $39

Additional Features:

Password protection.
Custom alert and logging.
Trusted addresses can be manually added to the "local zone."
Ports allowed can be controlled per application.

[Matt615]

How is it better?????