George send me the tip via email. Checkpoint, the developers of Zonealarm Pro, will hand out the software program for free tomorrow. To be precise, it will be free starting at 6 AM PDT on Tuesday 18 and remain so for the next 24 hours.
The url with the free offer will go live at the same time which is why it cannot be posted yet. It is likely that the following page will provide access to the download, it seems to be connected to the offer.
Users who download Zonealarm Pro will receive the software program for free including its one year subscription. The package would normally cost $39.95 for a year. The Zonealarm Pro suite contains a firewall and anti-spyware application.
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The Windows Vista Firewall is definitely better than the Windows XP Firewall because it is able to control incoming and outgoing connections. If you have to rely on the firewall you might feel that it is missing several features known from desktop firewalls. That’s where Vista Firewall Control comes into play. The free version of this firewall management software comes with reduced functionality but introduces one interesting features: The ability to allow or deny access to the Internet for running applications.
Whenever a application requests a connection to the Internet that is not in the list of applications that have already defined firewall rulesets Vista Firewall Control asks the user if he wants to allow or deny that connection.
That’s a known feature from many desktop firewalls. The options are to configure the application to disable or enable all connections or to allow only incoming or outgoing connections.
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Is your computer secure ? Is the firewall that you have installed working properly ? Those questions are rather hard to answer even for users with lots of PC experience. Many users simply use the Windows Firewall and think their computer is secure because most experts say that you do need a firewall but do not make any recommendations and it they recommend a firewall they are often biased.
Test My PC Security is a website that is offering several Firewall and Host Intrusion Prevention System Leak Tests that test the local firewall. The interesting aspect of this website is however that you can view test results online. And with test results I do not mean your own but those of other users. It does contain a ranking for Windows XP and Windows Vista with the Firewall that passed most (or even all) tests on the top and those that did not do that well at the bottom.
Ratings range from Excellent to Unacceptable with Comodo Firewall receiving the only Excellent rating. Comodo on the other hand seems to be the company that created the Test My PC Security website. I don’t think that they are cheating openly about the results but it could be that they designed the tests that way that their firewall would do very well. Now, I’m not an expert on the topic and it just seems a little bit strange, that is all I have to say.
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I’m faster than Raymond this time which is a very nice feeling. You can currently get a free version of the Steganos Security Suite 2007 with an option to update to the 2008 version for a reduced price. Let me first explain what the Security Suite is all about and detail the process of obtaining a free copy afterwards.
The Steganos Security Suite 2007 combines many tools in one suite and it’s aim is protect your data from hackers and thieves both online and offline. Six of its nine applications are based on encryption, like the email encryption or password manager. Two of the remaining three clean and delete data permanently from the system and one is an anti-theft protection that can be helpful if your computer gets stolen and the thief does go online without wiping the hard drive of the computer first.
Now, here is how you get your free serial number. Go to the following url and enter an email address in the form field. The serial number for the product will be send to it. Now visit My Steganos and create an account for the website. I did use the same email address. They send an verification email again and you have to click on the link contained within to activate the account.
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ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware which comes bundled with the ZoneAlarm Firewall can be downloaded free of charge today. The security software retails regularly for $19.95 and includes one year of free updates as well. This offer expires on November 14th 5pm PST so hurry up if you would like to give this software a try.
Users who would like to download the regular Zonealarm Anti-Spyware free of charge today have to supply their name and a valid email address to receive the download link, a valid serial number for the software and instructions on how to enter that serial number to activate the software.
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Some countries on earth are trying their best to keep their citizens from accessing the Internet freely out of fear that ideas of freedom and liberty would spread like wildfire throughout the country. China, notorious for blocking websites has started to realize that its citizens were able to read all those forbidden writings by simply accessing the feeds of those websites.
After discovering this they decided to ban URLs starting with ‘feeds’, ‘blog’, ‘rss’ and probably a handful of other related words. Several of my readers from China mentioned to me that my feed was blocked in China as well but the website was not. So, they started visiting my website again.
If you want to check if your website or feed is blocked as well in China you can use the website test behind the Great Firewall of China to do so. Just enter the url of your website, blog or feed, choose a location (Hong Kong, Beijing or Shanghai), enter the validation code and wait for a response from the script.
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