Security Upgrade of Zone Alarm resets settings.

There's an announcement on the front page for a new version (minor number) of all forms of ZA (Free, Plus, Pro).

If you have your settings set for Manual update-checking, now is the time to open the ZA control panels and click Check for Updates. You'll get a message to the effect that this is an important security update, and the Web site says that this is an with improved-protection update.

Be warned, however, that the new version resets your Preferences to the ones ZA thinks you should have "for your own protection," so go to the Preferences tab and other tabs when the installation is finished and reset things the way YOU want them. There will be the usual warning when you opt for Manual checking for updates.

(I didn't think about it, and I was in the middle of a download five minutes after the installation finished, when a ZA popup informed me that my version information was being sent to the server to make sure that my protection was up to date.)

 

Thanks for the heads up WW, I updated mine yesterday, and just now found some changed settings.