

You cannot install a different product over top the one currently installed. Moving to ZoneAlarm Extreme NextGen is strongly recommended if you have an existing licence.Įnsure you choose the right product.

Legacy ZoneAlarm products (version 15x) will NOT work on Windows 11. Once the upgrade has completed successfully, you can reinstall ZoneAlarm Extreme NextGen (recommended) or ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall. If upgrading to Windows 11, it is strongly recommended that you uninstall all non-Microsoft security products (including ZoneAlarm) before upgrading. The free products tend to concentrate mostly on their pure protection function. The freeware security packages make quite an impressive showing in the test, but anyone who wants the highest level of security is required to use one of the commercial packages.

The massive move to mobile has led to huge increases in attacks on mobile devices. Many “free” download sites confuse users with multiple download links that are unrelated to the intended download, often retrieving malware instead.Many websites are infected with programs that appear to be legitimate, but whose purpose is to scare you into downloading dangerous software.A reliable (uninfected) backup of your current data is the only recovery you can count on. Newer threats are much harder to detect and very difficult to remove.Get to know how your security software warns you about threats.

The nature of threats on the Internet has changed. See Firewalls: Your First Line of Defense…. Today's devices are continually connected to the Internet so you cannot afford to be without a firewall.
