Zone Alarm virus report.

[Ivan Iraola]

It seems the new update for ZA (Version 9.1) has PowerBASIC (and ALL programs compiled with it) as a virus, my PBEdit.exe and FireFly3.exe were quarantined as well as all my EXEs 

It reports: Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Agent.bkzm

[Paul Squires]

I believe that something like that happened to PB generated EXE's one time before. Maybe not with Zone Alarm but another scanner. I remember reading about it in the PB Forums and some people saying that PB's EXE headers were "malformed" or something strange like that. Bob Zale certainly disagreed with that assertion of course. In the end, it was the application's fault and not PB's.

[Roger Garstang]

Yeah it did that once before...I used to be on Beta Testing for ZA too along with PB and FF and various other things.  ZA is pretty worthless.  It and many like it are test passers and that is all they concentrate on.  Real threats get right through. I was on their Beta for at least 2 major versions if not almost 3 when I finally gave up.  There was an error with one of their options which was meant to hide your ID online and hide your referral address in HTTP headers so sites didn't know what site you came from...but it was erasing the wrong headers.  Some were minor, but one was the LastModified field that then never came to your browser, so it never used cache and always got fresh copies which slows down your browsing.  I reported it 3 times and it never got fixed.  They didn't develop very quick either, especially 64bit.  So I switched to Nod32 and now their full pack that includes firewall and never looked back.  I had Comodo in between...if you find the old version before they switched to AV and everything it is good, but the new one isn't.