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I decided to buy this a few weeks ago, having read lots of positive reviews about the Kaspersky anti-virus engine (which this software uses) and being an enthusiastic ZA firewall for many years.
Hving used this software on XP, Vista 32 & 64 bit systems, I strongly recommend you avoid it.
With XP, your system will slow down dramatically, bootup and slowdown takes around 5 times longer. Something ZA posted on their forums as they have been 'working on' for the past few months. Their recommendation is that you downgrade to the previous version until a fix is found! Unacceptable when you just bought this.
With Vista 32 bit I experienced the same problems, to the extend I rebuilt my system as I thought I either had a virus or corrupt O/S. As soon as I reinstalled ZA Security suite performance degraded exponentially.
Finally, blaming my old PC for lack of power, I installed this on my new Core i7 with 12GB RAM running Vista 64, not only did my system slow down again it frequently started blue screening (often in cycles - bootup, blue screen, restart, bluescreen, restart, bluescreen). Several Core i7 users are complaining of the same issue on the ZA forums but as yet ZA haven't acknowledged it is a fault, let alone started work on a fix.
In the end I uninstalled ZA Security Suite and installed Kaspersky Internet Security (KIS). Although KIS itself is not perfect, at least my system no longer crashes and my system is stable.
Paradoxically, this program is designed to protect your system but may do more harm than the viruses/malware it was designed to protect you from. There seems to be an ever growing list of problems wiithout solution.
In summary, avoid, avoid, avoid.
Last edited by kamaran : 17-05-2009 at 10:48.
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