This week Zone Labs announced the 3.0 versions of its wildly popular personal firewall and security products, ZoneAlarm and ZoneAlarm Pro. Key improvements include a beefed-up firewall, support for Windows XP, a much-improved user interface, and more help for users who want to understand the alerts the software presents to them. You can also download this new version at http://www.zonelabs.com
The article can be viewed at http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2817237,00.html

As long as it's not trying to be all things to all people, Like the cookie-blocking - I think ZA should focus on its main purpose - f/w protection. I run ZAPro because it's easy, I don't know enough about "setting rules" in others.
What's all the stuff it has in Internet custom settings, eg Allow outgoing & incoming ICMP, incoming IGMP etc - can't find this in the helpfiles & would very much like to know, as I don't know what should be checked