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Are these guys the new Norton?
"Check Point Software appears to be ripping a page from the 's it claims to fight,' running a scare-tactic warning dialog to frighten users into upgrading to a paid version of the company's ZoneAlarm firewall product. Preying on fears of ZeuS.Zbot, the Check Point warning dialog tells users their PCs 'may be in danger' without having found ZeuS.Zbot, nor having checked to see whether you're running an antivirus product. 'The program doesn't care if you're infected with ZeuS.Zbot, or if you have protection in place. It just wants to sell you an upgrade to the firewall that may or may not detect future ZeuS.Zbot variants' activities — some day.' Check Point's customers have inundated the ZoneAlarm forums with complaints."
Are these guys the new Norton?
Yea i saw that last night, i was like give me a ing break.
Is firewall really necessary anymore for the average user?
Nothing new here except warning customers of potential threats.
This has been the commonplace in antivirus manufacturers for years.
When it comes to AV, you don't make super-duper anti-virus and wimpy anti-virus. It's all the same. Some of the determining detection methods get complicated, but often, due to expected demand for different price/performance, they use watered down home versions of the software. You might be buying an at-home anti-virus that works fine as a corporate. That is, if there isn't a detection line that tells the system what kind of protection to use. I don't know all the technical details, just that more often than not, far more better detection is made than can be sold at a higher price.
Now, when it comes to the actual software, Norton and McAfee have been doing this for as long as I know of. I used to be professionally involved with ZoneAlarm from 1994-1998. They would make a full-featured AV suite and test it. The best AV would get marked with the highest rating and full features. Once they had a ratio of detection methods, the others would be downgraded. AV would be marked as "home" with less strict firewalls. Anti-spyware and email scanners would be snipped out by deactivating the relevant software. All they did today was let the consumer know that they are exposed to this threat with the option of purchasing more expensive protection.
Cry all you want. If you want full features and protection from this latest threat, buy the corporate. You simply pay more. Nothing new or unethical here, except they made the consumer more aware.
Meh... I have no problem with an up-sell message. Does this looks like an offer to upgrade to you?
You're a seasoned user, and know better, but that thing looks exactly what malware shows you on an infected machine.
If anything, it's BS because it's not even telling you your machine is not infected.
Zooooooom over your head. XDMeh... I have no problem with an up-sell message. Does this looks like an offer to upgrade to you?
You're a seasoned user, and know better, but that thing looks exactly what malware shows you on an infected machine.
If anything, it's BS because it's not even telling you your machine is not infected.
Think about it.
Meh, I really don't care. I mostly use Win under VMWare or Parallels these days, and install the free MSE just so it stops bugging about installing an AV.
I don't think I've done Win dev in a couple of years.
I just recall people saying Zone Alarm was a pretty good product, so I didn't think they would use backhanded stuff like this.
I mean, is it that different from this?
LOL... It did go completely over my head... you should at least have hinted me with a link
I remember using their free version. It was damn annoying. I'm glad a got rid of it.
hahaha zonealarm sucked yrs ago and still does, just like norton anything, avg and the like. they all suck!
crybaby you knew this was coming but i am so glad i own a mac. that bs noise you win OS users have to put up with.
Zoooom over your head too.
I have used PCs exclusively since 1998 on a daily basis.
I have had one virus in that entire span of time. 12 years, 1 virus. Oh nooooes what a horrible situation!
Meanwhile, I have saved thousands of dollars by not buying Apple products. When they put something out that's better than the compe ion (see: iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS), I buy it. But that's a rare situation considering how overpriced they are.
Zoooom over your head too!
i could care less about viruses. it's the bs pests like malware and spyware that winOS fails to rid itself of. headache after headache.I have had one virus in that entire span of time. 12 years, 1 virus. Oh nooooes what a horrible situation!
Dear god, I have to actually download and install programs once per computer! The process of letting them update themselves at 5 am is just too much to handle!
you just keep defending that ty OS man... you know as well as i do when they get them stupid in' adverts poppin up for no reason or you can't access your task manager or whatever other dumb those things do, it's a headache. it's never hard to fix but it is always a headache.Dear god, I have to actually download and install programs once per computer! The process of letting them update themselves at 5 am is just too much to handle!
i deal with that almost every other week or month at my office job. the old man at work just can't stop clicking on those fake virus scan and whatnot. old people shouldn't drive or operate computers.
btw, 2 yrs and nothing... no virus scanner installed, no bs spyware/walmare software, nothing. how about your winOS machine? what needless bs do you have installed on it?
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