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Do you have a valid subscription?

You must have a valid subscription to renew. To check the status of your subscription, open your ZoneAlarm product.

• Open your ZoneAlarm product interface
• Click Overview in the left column
• Click on the Product Info tab
• Look under the Support and Update Information section. You will be advised on how many days your subscription will be valid or if your subscription has expired.

If your ZoneAlarm subscription has expired, you'll need to renew your subscription before updating your product. .

Is there an updated version available?

There are two ways to find out if an updated version of your ZoneAlarm product is available.

Manual Updates

If your ZoneAlarm product is set to "Manually Check for Updates", you will need to open ZoneAlarm and click the "Check for Update" button.

• Open your ZoneAlarm product interface
• Go to Overview in the left-hand column
• Click on the Preferences tab
• Under "Check for Updates", click the "Check for Update" button.

   

Automatic Updates

If your ZoneAlarm product is set to "Automatically Check for Product Updates", you will receive the following pop-up alert when a new version of ZoneAlarm is available. If you select "Update Now", you can update your ZoneAlarm product immediately.

 

 

If you do not want to update your ZoneAlarm product when you receive the pop-up alert, you can choose to be reminded later:

• Select "Remind Me Later"
• Choose the number of days in which you would like to be reminded
• Click "OK"

How do I update my ZoneAlarm product?

When you choose "Update Now" and click "OK", you will be taken to a Web page that resembles the following:

This page will tell you what changes have been made to the latest version of your ZoneAlarm product. Click "Download Now!" to download the latest version and follow the instructions on the download page.

Instructions for Downloading:

Please choose an easy-to-remember location when you download the latest version of ZoneAlarm, such as your Desktop or My Documents folder.

The download should only take a few seconds on a broadband connection.

When the download finishes, find the file you just downloaded and double-click on it. The file name will resemble something like this: zaSuiteSetup_60_631_003.

Double clicking on the file will begin installation of the latest version of your ZoneAlarm product. Please follow the online set up instructions to complete the installation.

Important: In order to save your current firewall and other product settings, click on "Upgrade" when given the choice between "Upgrade" and "Clean Install".

Once the installation process is complete, the ZoneAlarm product will ask you to restart your computer for the new version to become active.

Update Now

Update your ZoneAlarm product now and stay ahead of the latest Internet threats. Select your product from the list below:

 

 

Summer is long since over school is well underway, and the realities are starting to set in. Around the world, a new generation of K-5 parents are dealing with a brand-new generational issue in child-rearing – how to keep your kids safe online.

We were Gen-Xers, the so-called slackers who turned out to be pretty ambitious after all. While we didn’t invent the Internet, many of us helped build it into what it is today.

Now, we’ve got to keep our kids safe, without having grown up in the same digital world. Yes, many of us are increasingly tech-savvy (the Internet started showing up in or around our college years, so we’re not completely clueless). But we certainly didn’t have the Net in kindergarten, nor were we building Facebook profiles to at age ten.

 

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Botnets continue to be the scourge of the Internet, affecting consumers, businesses and ISPs. The Storm worm, which over the past couple of years has created one of the largest known botnets ever and may have infected over a million PCs, is just the tip of the iceberg. The headlines are scary, but we believe it is possible to stay safe.

The first step is to understand the threat. What is a botnet, and how can you protect yourself from becoming a dreaded zombie?

Essentially, a botnet is a bunch of personal and even business PCs that a hacker has successfully compromised (with a Trojan, virus or other “backdoor” malware). Those PCs are referred to as “zombies” or “bots” because they are mindless thugs controlled remotely, used to carry a cybercriminal’s dirty work.

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In the past hackers often used botnets to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a company, often in some sort of protest (or make a political statement etc). Basically, they wanted to wreak havoc. How did they do it? A hacker might harness the power of all the bandwidth available from thousands (or more) zombie PCs to flood
a company’s servers with random, useless Internet traffic and data packets in order to bring down their Web site or disrupt e-mail/Internet communications. Then they’d brag about it.

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Today, botnets are less typically tools of revenge and glory and more often exploited for financial gain. They may be “rented” out to other cybercrooks for sending out masses of spam, or they may be used to serve illegal content such as child pornography – enabling the illegal venture to essentially hide behind an innocent PC user.ZoneAlarm^®
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Botnets are also exploited to steal financial information (hackers can build up financial profiles of the “people behind the PCs” by spying on online banking, shopping etc and sell the profile on the Internet’s black market), or they’ll use them to distribute spyware like keyloggers to capture sensitive information from even more unsuspecting users.

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Now you know what a botnet is and how hackers use them. So how do you know if you could own a zombie PC? Slow, sluggish performance is one sign. Is your Internet connection lagging? Does your PC get stuck at times (and you’ve exhausted all other explanations, like you haven’t run your system maintenance for awhile and you have adequate RAM etc)? Or, when you are doing nothing on your PC, can you hear it “thinking” (IE the processor is working, even when you’re across the room watching TV)?
Does your firewall give you random alerts when you are surfing the Internet?

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If you suspect your PC is a zombie, run a virus/spyware scan immediately and remove/quarantine any suspicious applications found. If viruses or spyware are found on your PC, consider changing your passwords and keep an eye on your bank accounts and credit statements. You can also take it a step further and sign-up for an identity theft protection service if you suspect your personal information has fallen in the wrong hands.

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