Zone Alarm to Zone Alarm Pro upgrade

[Anubis]

Is the upgrade worth spending the money. I run zone alarm and it seems to be doing fine, was just wondering if it was worth it to jump to pro.

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I can feel the wheel, but I can't steer
When my thoughts become my biggest fear
Ah, what's the difference, I'll die
In this sick world of mine

[Paul Komski]

Pro: More options, more customisable, mailsafe and more secure (checks dialups for example).

Con: Slower to load and (IMHO slightly slower browsing) and not free.

I think it depends how important security is to you/your system, what other applications you use and what your internet habits are.

[penta_chris]

Pro also has cool features like killing banner ads, killing banner ads only if they take more than a few seconds to load, and killing pop-up ads.

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I fight authority,
Authority always wins

[Anubis]

As far as my internet habits are concerned I pretty much use email, IE 6, irc and the various dos networking commands. I do browse to sites that use popups often, does ZAP also nail the sorry ass flash ads that are becomming the rage? I don't mind spending the money if in fact the product is an improvement over the free version. How stabile is it? I am not too worried about a slower load up time, 5 seconds more on boot won't make a differance.

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I can feel the wheel, but I can't steer
When my thoughts become my biggest fear
Ah, what's the difference, I'll die
In this sick world of mine

[mjc]

There is a fix for the flash ads.....unistall Flash and Shockwave. Disable Java and you will not get pop-ups either, that would only leave banners, and if you disable animation then they won't be moving ones.

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mjc
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