Zone Labs ZoneAlarm Security Suite 6 review

The anti-phishing function identifies all the usual eBay/PayPal/banking scams and moves them to a fraud folder. Used in conjunction with the existing ID lock (which alerts the user whenever personal information is about to leave the computer) and the host file lock that prevents hackers from modifying the local host files, ID theft protection is superbly covered.

Elsewhere, Zone Labs hasn't fiddled too much. The automatic network detection has been tweaked for Wi-Fi and will now identify unsecured wireless networks and automatically set the appropriate security levels to protect the computer. Instant Messaging protection, parental-control features, ad blocking, cache cleaning, mobile-code control and email-attachment quarantining remain as impressive as ever.

What prevents ZoneAlarm from getting a clean slate in our testing is its inability to set web-filtering configurations on a per-account basis. This oversight seriously restricts the usefulness of the otherwise well thought-out parental controls. But this is the only blip in an otherwise superb product, with its performance in all the other tests enough to retain its A-List status.