Free Firewall

tall chapy

Free licences for the Pro version of Zonealarm firewall are to be given away over a 24 hour period on Tuesday Oct 13th. from 6.am. PST which is 14.00 GMT.
More info here
http://antivirus.about.com/b/2009/10/09/free-zonealarm-pro-2010-coming-on-patch-tuesday.htm

garion

Great find, cheers OP.

Kotek Besar

What for? Windows has a free firewall. Your router probably does, too.

TheDriver

this happened last yr too, they had massive demand

Pimp Ninja

Just went on there now, its live. They ask for a contact mail address and send you on a download link. (Which I have not yet recieved).

Its a 1 year licence useable on 3 PC's

soc

Yep, link just went live. Submitted my details.
Thanks OP.

Clareman

You have to submit your credit card number to buy something which price comes to 0.00......

TheDriver

hmmm, didn't have to submit any cc details, you might want to check that. Last year, it took good while before an email came, think it might have been 2-3 days after.

Standard Toaster

Zoink!

Nerin

Sweet, got this last year too

Kotek Besar

Ok, seriously, why install something on your PC that you don't need?

Pimp Ninja

Link and key just arrived via emial.

No CC details entered anywhere.

- License key is valid 10/13/09 to 10/14/10 for use on up to 3 computers.

d31b0y

It's looknig for CC details for me too...

Can anyone confirm?

Basq

Urrrrgghhh... software firewall's. ICK!

"Do you want to allow this program to access the Internet?" x 1000!

Not a fan whatsoever!

TheDriver

why? because zone alarm is a lot better than windows firewall, especially on XP. I find it stops a lot of suspicious behaviour on my pc

LFC Murphy

It's asking for CC details? any ideas?

Kotek Besar

Total waste of time.

Pimp Ninja

Try this
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/sum/index-b.html

And click the green Download Now in the banner at the top.
It asks for a First Name, Surname, and email address (to which they email the details)

TheDriver

Benifa: Ever wonder why there are companies developing firewalls and more importantly, making vast amounts of money when MS give a firewall for free?

Jonathan

I was expecting a HW firewall when I read the title. SW firewalls are a waste of time..

Kotek Besar

TheDriver wrote: »

Benifa: Ever wonder why there are companies developing firewalls and more importantly, making vast amounts of money when MS give a firewall for free?

Never. I know exactly why.

TheDriver

well maybe you might enlighten us as to why we shouldn't bother with this or any firewall and trust windows firewall?

Bluetonic

This is a bargains alert thread lads, not somewhere to discuss the merits of firewalls.

Regardless of your thoughts this IS a bargain.

Next we'll have people saying Lucozade is a total waste of time....

Cop on.

Shocking

Still a good deal for passing on to parents.

soc

Installed successfully

Absolutely no prompt to enter any CC details at any point... me thinks some PP were clicking something else on the website which would lead you to some kind of 'purchase' page.

Anyway, thanks again OP

vHOST

thanx m8, nice find,

d31b0y

soc wrote: »

Installed successfully

Absolutely no prompt to enter any CC details at any point... me thinks some PP were clicking something else on the website which would lead you to some kind of 'purchase' page.

Anyway, thanks again OP

Nope, there was a point there when you clicked the download now button, it tried to bundle a load of other software with it. You could remove the other software and the firewall was still $0 but it still wanted credit card details. It's working properly again now and still good until 2 o'clock I think.

EDIT: Oh, and thanks OP.

Clareman

I think if you already have an account registered it'll go through the CC page, otherwise you are good to go, so if you have already used Zonealarm, just sign up with a new account (and email address).

Thanks op, good find