Review: “ZoneAlarm Extreme Security” Secure Online Backup Reviewed by PCMag

February 27, 2009

Secure Online Backup

Remote backup is the ultimate security, in a way. If a falling satellite fragment smashes into your computer or zombies tear your office apart, you can still recover your essential files. ZoneAlarm Extreme, which offers 2GB of backup space for your most important files, uses a secure online backup system from backup powerhouse IDrive. As with Webroot, ZoneAlarm focuses strictly on online backup. BitDefender, Norton 360, and Panda offer a choice of local or online, and McAfee sticks with local backup.

Matching MozyHome Online Backup, IDrive offers 2GB of hosted online backup free to anybody, not just ZoneAlarm users. That seems to be the magic number—the online backup feature in BitDefender, Panda, Webroot, and Norton 360 all offer the same amount of storage. The differences become more apparent when you need more. For $49.50 per year, you get a whopping 150GB from ZoneAlarm. BitDefender asks $39.95 for just 10GB, while Webroot and Norton 360 also offer 10GB, but for only $20. Panda’s service isn’t free at all after the first year—you have to pay about $6.36 (5 euros, actually) for 5GB of storage. The only product that costs less per gigabyte is Mozy, which charges $4.95 for storage limited only by your available bandwidth.

During the configuration process you set up a password-protected online backup account. You’ll also want to define a …

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