INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Check Point has launched a new extension for Google Chrome called ZoneAlarm Web Secure Free that provides users with free protection against
phishing attacks, malicious downloads and dangerous websites.The new solution is an advanced Google Chrome extension that can help keep
users safe online from multiple threats while they search and browse the web.When a user adds the ZoneAlarm Web Secure Free extension to
Chrome, ZoneAlarm Safe Search becomes their default search engine
The search engine utilizes Check Point's ThreatCloud database, which contains up-to-date global threat intelligence, to scan search results
and rate them according to their potential risk.ZoneAlarm's Web Secure Free also protects users' credentials against phishing attacks by
using ZoneAlarm Zero-Phishing
The technology scans all websites before allowing users to input any personal information while also alerting them to any attempts to steal
their personal data.Check Point's new free security solution also utilizes ZoneAlarm's Threat Extraction technology to enable users to
safely download documents from emails and the web
Threat Extraction automatically removes any suspect or malicious code from documents in seconds to ensure that an extracted file is
completely safe without disturbing users.Head of consumer sales at Check Point, Dror Levy explained in a press release that ZoneAlarm Web
ways to target consumers and often play on genuine public fears, as seen recently with the rise of malicious spam relating to 2019-nCoV
Since the beginning of January, over 16,000 new coronavirus-related domains were registered and since the end of February 2020 the average
number of new domains is almost 10 times more than found in previous weeks
