ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware (ZAAS) adds spyware protection to the potent ZoneAlarm firewall in the same way ZoneAlarm Antivirus adds antivirus: by giving you ZoneAlarm Pro minus the identity and privacy-protection elements. We evaluated ZAAS specifically for its ability to remove spyware from infested systems and prevent clean systems from becoming infected, though.
The theory behind ZAAS is that the Firewall component will suppress all harmful spyware activity and the scanner will remove the messy spyware traces. In practice, we’d be a lot happier if the firewall’s messages specifically flagged known spyware. Users still have to decide whether a program should be allowed to access the Internet, add itself to the startup sequence, and so on. When a program attempts truly dangerous behavior like injecting its code into another process or attempting to raise its privilege level, the resulting red alert does clearly point out the danger. But even these warnings don’t specifically identify the offending program as known spyware.
The default Quick Scan is quick—it took less than a minute on our standard clean system. For testing purposes we used the Full Scan, which took five minutes. The Scan Results window displays a clear description of the highlighted item, with a link to more data online. Unfortunately, the only way to widen the Path column to see the full filename or the Registry path of a found item is by widening the entire window. And there’s no full log showing the spyware traces associated with each threat.
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