avast! and Zone Alarm firewall Compatibility issue

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Is there any compatibility issues with avast! and Zone Alarm firewall? I have avast! 4.7 Home edition installed. I installed Zone alarm firewall successfully. It needed a reboot. After reboot I see a warning from Zone alarm firewall that Zone alarm is not compatible with avast!.

Theres ben a compatibility issue between ZoneAlarm and avast! for quite a long time now. All we can do is wait and watch till the issue is sorted out by the avast! developers. However, I still use ZoneAlarm with avast!, its not given me any problems till date.

Zonealarm is the world most trusted firewall ever.If you want to secure your pc from hackers then it is must to install this firewall.

imo, there r no known compatibilty issues btwn za & avast. in fact the coexistence of those two is stunning ! on my desktop i have zass and avast running peacefully ! make sure u r using the latest versions of both.

nevertheless, in case of problems, don't install the network shield. select custom install (in avast) and un-click network shield. this network shield acts as a partial software firewall and could perhaps b causing conflicts with za.

Yeah! If u install network shield/web shield in avast!, then the problem occurs.
But avast! automatically detects the ZA firewall and asks u to disable its network/web shield.
So no problem!

avast and ZA are peacefully installed on my Pc for the last 1yr.

Thanks a lot! I appreciate your feedback. But i want to clear a doubt. Is Zone alarm firewall resource hungry like Norton antivirus? Or shall I stay with Sunbelt Kerio Firewall?

ZA is not at all resource hungry!

ZA is the best firewall & also easiest to configure.