How Does Zone Alarm stop hacks?
Basically, when a probe is sent to your computer, Zone Alarm intercepts it and does not send a reply. So to the rest of the world, your computer doesn’t even exist! You are now in stealth mode! From the first moment that I installed Zone Alarm, I was alerted to the barrage of probes on my computer, and I then realized how many “sneaky” programs were trying to send info on the net when they had no business doing so. If you want to see how vulnerable you are to probing, visit www.grc.com where you can have your ports and your existing firewall tested for vulnerabilities. My suggestion is that you try Zone Alarm, and that you test your shields with and without the firewall to see the difference. In fact, it was initially claimed that Zone Alarm is currently the only firewall that fully protects the user from probes and does not allow any leaks; however many other firewall programs have since released patches for this problem. The latest download (V 2.6) is only 2.76 MB and is compatible w
