•Flexibility—ZoneAlarm/Pro allows you to customize your firewall for both local and Internet zones.
•Remote blocking—you can program the Internet lock to block all traffic when your computer is unattended.
•Control—you determine which applications can connect to the Internet or receive input from the Internet.
•Activity monitoring—ZoneAlarm alerts you of any Internet activity that can affect your computer while connected; the program allows you to stop any activity instantly.
The following are the additional features of ZoneAlarm Pro:
•Advanced MailSafe—prevents e-mail viruses and other potentially dangerous e-mail attachments by checking 37 suspect attachment types; you can also customize additional suspect attachment types.
•Password protection—makes your security settings tamperproof.
•ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) capability—Allows configuration of an ICS network.
•Logging of intrusion attempts—helps you organize and maintain a data list of attempted intrusions by automatically archiving them to a directory.
•Control over the restricted zone—you can restrict access to your computer from individual computers or groups of computers.
•Advanced firewall control—lets you further customize your local and Internet security zones by enabling NAT and by blocking or allowing NetBIOS, DHCP, DNS, and ICMP.
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