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Originally Posted by Karl
ZoneAlarm - Junk, IMHO these days. Severely broke my PC, slowed it to a crawl (I'm not on a slow machine, 4 Cores @ 2.2Ghz, 4GB RAM), had to remove it, and this was the Pro Security Suite version. So unless they've changed a lot in it other than re-naming it and adding central management, I'd stay away.
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Integrity is one of the things that I would really like to play around with just to see how well it works. I've got the eval discs for it somewhere, I think. It's a great idea, it just depends how well it's been implemented.
There are a couple of versions of Integrity, one is the NAC version (or Total Access Protection as Check Point call it) that can work with the client security programs, 802.1x switches etc. (as well as the FW-1/VPN-1 firewall and InterSpect IPS/IDS systems that Check Point would love you to buy) in order to control your access to the network (Like Cisco are pushing at the moment, and FortiNet are looking towards with their FortiGate 224B. The other versions of Integrity are the clienteless version for the SSL VPNs that basically uses Active X to scan your computer to make sure that it is secure, up to date AV and OS patches etc. before letting you in and a similar one that is integrated with the SecureClient VPN client.
I've not really had any speed issues with Zone Alarm, but then again I've not used it on my PC for a while as I run OS X most of the time and when I'm in Windows I'm sat behind a FortiGate firewall anyway so I don't bother with local security (bad I know, but I only use Windows for games so I'd spend half of the time with it turned off anyway). I did notice on my Dad's computer that it "helpfully" installed a toolbar into IE and Firefox. Got rid of that useless bloat pretty quickly though.