Checkpoint, one of the premier vendors of enterprise level firewalls, has agreed to acquire Zone Labs, one of the premier vendors of personal firewall software. Zone Labs is particularly well known among security-conscious users with no money to spend- their base-level ZoneAlarm software is available for free for personal use. For more information on this acquisition you can read this ComputerWeekly.com article: Check Point snaps up firewall company.

I use ZoneAlarm Pro personally and have no issues with it, but I know a number of people have posted varying complaints about ZA and choose to use Outpost, Kerio and other freeware firewalls instead.

I am curious whether people think this will make ZA products better, worse or simply have no effect on the grand scheme of things.

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