ZoneAlarm, now with antispyware
Zone Labs Wednesday rolled out an anti-spyware product for consumers and small businesses that takes a proactive approach by basing its defense on firewall technology.
“Our approach looks at the behavior of spyware, not at a database of definition signatures,” said Gregor Freund, the chief technology officer of Zone Labs, which is part of the Redwood City, Calif.-based Check Point Software.
Rather than rely on spyware- and adware-specific definitions to detect and delete unwanted programs after they’ve gotten a foothold on a PC, the new ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware looks for some 20 different spyware “behaviors,” said Freund. That insures malicious code isn’t inserted into applications, processes, Windows services, or the operating system’s kernel.
“The basic foundation of any spyware prevention has to be the firewall, because it goes beyond reactive signature-based technologies,” said Freund.
AntiSpyware uses Zone Lab’s new OSFirewall technology — which also is used in its ZoneAlarm and ZoneAlarm Pro personal firewalls — to detect possible spyware.
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4:57 am October 20th, 2005 
Zone Labs Wednesday rolled out an anti-spyware product for consumers and small businesses that takes a proactive approach by basing its defense on firewall technology.
“Our approach looks at the behavior of spyware, not at a database of definition signatures,” said Gregor Freund, the chief technology officer of Zone Labs, which is part of the Redwood City, Calif.-based Check Point Software.
Rather than rely on spyware- and adware-specific definitions to detect and delete unwanted programs after they’ve gotten a foothold on a PC, the new ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware looks for some 20 different spyware “behaviors,” said Freund. That insures malicious code isn’t inserted into applications, processes, Windows services, or the operating system’s kernel.
“The basic foundation of any spyware prevention has to be the firewall, because it goes beyond reactive signature-based technologies,” said Freund.
AntiSpyware uses Zone Lab’s new OSFirewall technology — which also is used in its ZoneAlarm and ZoneAlarm Pro personal firewalls — to detect possible spyware.
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