Zone Labs Adds Antivirus
to Consumer and SOHO Product Line
World's Most Trusted Security Vendor
Introduces New Line-up for Award-Winning ZoneAlarm Family of Products,
Including Best of Breed Suite
San Francisco, CA - May 24, 2004—Zone Labs®,
a Check Point company (Nasdaq: CHKP), today announced the immediate
availability of one of the best and most complete integrated security
solutions to guard consumer and small business users from the risks
posed by hackers, viruses, worms and other online threats. The
flagship product in the new line-up is the ZoneAlarm® Internet Security Suite,
an easy-to-use, comprehensive solution that provides all-in-one
PC protection, integrating Zone Labs' award-winning firewall with
antivirus, Web site filtering, privacy protection and instant messaging
security.
Zone Labs also announced immediate availability for three additional members
of the ZoneAlarm product family: the new ZoneAlarm with Antivirus, ZoneAlarm
Pro 5 and ZoneAlarm 5.
"Zone Labs has always encouraged users to safeguard their PCs with
our best-in-class firewall technology, paired with up-to-date antivirus
protection," said Frederick Felman, vice president of marketing,
Zone Labs. "We're proud to continue our commitment to best-of-breed
solutions with the introduction of the new ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite,
which combines our time-tested and proven firewall – the best proactive
defense technology – with award-winning antivirus technology to put
unequaled security within the grasp of all users."
Both the ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite and ZoneAlarm with Antivirus integrate
Zone Labs' best-of-breed firewall technology with award-winning
antivirus technology from Computer Associates. Computer Associates'
antivirus technology has received the VB100 award for the past
four consecutive years from Virus Bulletin, one of the world’s foremost
antivirus testing authorities.
Ease-of-use is one of the biggest barriers to effective security and Zone
Labs delivers innovative new features to remove this potential
stumbling block. The ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite and ZoneAlarm Pro
5 include a new Automatic Program Control feature, which is backed
by patent pending systems to take the guesswork out of security
and make it truly easy to use. Supported by the 30 million members
of the Zone Labs security community and the experts at Zone Labs,
users will have up-to-the minute advice automatically delivered
to their computer about which programs are safe and which are dangerous.
Automatic Program Control delivers on the promise of "set and forget" security,
making the very best security accessible to users of all skill
levels.
In addition, security has been further hardened across the entire ZoneAlarm
product line with the addition of "boot-time protection," which
begins protecting the PC before network drivers are loaded. This
extra layer protects the PC at the earliest possible opportunity,
thus providing no window of opportunity for malicious programs
to communicate.
Uniquely, ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite incorporates instant messaging security
to ensure that IM conversations are private and secure, regardless of service
or client used. Instant Messaging Security protects AOL Instant Messenger,
ICQ, MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger so that home and office workers
do not have to change their existing IM habits or software in order to feel
safe using the fastest growing form of Internet communication. The Message
Encryption protects IM from eavesdropping while other IM security features
defend PCs against IM spam, risks posed by IM vulnerabilities including
common attacks like buffer overflows, invalid messages, unsafe scripts,
and executable URLs.
ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite allows parents to rest assured that their children's
Internet experience will be free from the threat of pornography,
violence and other dubious content. ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite blocks
inappropriate Web content dynamically to keep current with the
tens of thousands of new offensive sites that spring up weekly,
without requiring users to download large files. In addition, users may
choose to block ads, as well as scan and remove third-party tracking cookies
that violate users' privacy while allowing cookies from trusted sites to
remain on the PC.
ZoneAlarm Pro 5
ZoneAlarm Pro delivers strong security features such as a personal "stealth
mode" firewall to shield the PC
from unauthorized entry, Program Control to prevent Trojan horses and spyware
from stealing
users' information via unauthorized communications with the Internet, as well
as simple set-up for networks, including wireless networks. New in ZoneAlarm
Pro 5 are Automatic Program Configuration and Program AlertAdvisor as well
as enhanced ease-of-use and further hardening of security.
ZoneAlarm with Antivirus
ZoneAlarm with Antivirus is a new Internet security solution that provides Zone
Labs robust firewall protection and antivirus in an easy-to-use package for
home and small business users. ZoneAlarm with Antivirus is ideal for users
who want a powerful best-of-breed firewall and antivirus but who are not interested
in the additional security features found in ZoneAlarm Pro or the ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite.
ZoneAlarm 5
ZoneAlarm, downloaded by millions of users and the de facto standard in the
category, provides basic Internet security for the home PC. ZoneAlarm 5 has
further hardened security to keep users and their valuable personal information
safe, even against targeted attacks.
Pricing and Availability Information
ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite, ZoneAlarm Pro 5, ZoneAlarm with Antivirus and ZoneAlarm
5 all are available today from the Zone Labs web site at www.zonelabs.com.
ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite costs $69.95 for a single user, ZoneAlarm Pro 5 costs
$49.95 for a single user and ZoneAlarm with Antivirus costs $19.95 for a single
user. ZoneAlarm continues to be free for personal and non-profit use.
The ZoneAlarm family of products supports Windows® 98SE, Me, 2000 Pro
and XP.
About Zone Labs LLC, A Check Point Company
Zone Labs®, a Check Point company (Nasdaq: CHKP), is one of
the most trusted brands in Internet security. Zone Labs is a leading
creator of endpoint security solutions protecting millions of PCs
and the valuable, personally-identifiable information on those
PCs, from hackers, spyware and data theft. The company's award-winning
endpoint security product line is deployed in global enterprises,
small businesses and consumers' homes, protecting them from Internet-borne
threats. Zone Labs Integrity™ is an endpoint security management
platform that protects corporate data and productivity. The ZoneAlarm
family of products is among the most popular and successful Internet
security products available today while IMsecure® Pro offers
comprehensive security for instant messaging. Please visit
http://www.zonelabs.com for
more information.
For Zone Labs LLC
Te Smith
Zone Labs LLC
415/633-4833
Joanne Rasch
A&R Partners
650/533-4095
jrasch@arpartners.com
Editor's Notes: © 2004 Zone Labs LLC, A Check Point Company
All rights reserved. IMsecure, TrueVector, ZoneAlarm and Zone
Labs are registered trademarks of Zone Labs LLC, A Check Point Company The Zone Labs
logo, Zone Labs Integrity and Cooperative Enforcement are trademarks
of Zone Labs, Inc. Zone Labs Integrity protected under U.S. Patent
No. 5,987,611. Reg. U.S. Pat. & TM Off. Check Point is a trademark
of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. All other trademarks
are the property of their respective owners. v.07.18.03
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