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Title: Zone Alarm Accused of Spying on it's users!
Post by: Zagor on January 24, 2006, 05:04:24 AM

Read about it here:

http://www.cybertechhelp.com/news/

Title: Re: Zone Alarm Accused of Spying on it's users!
Post by: TedNelly on January 24, 2006, 05:23:40 AM

Thanks for the info Zagor good to know very sneeky of ZA

Title: Re: Zone Alarm Accused of Spying on it's users!
Post by: szc on January 26, 2006, 01:29:14 PM

Just wanted to bring this thread to the top again... people should see this... the good thing is, ZL promised a fix for this problem... also, there is a temporary workaround until they release next program update:

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Zone Alarm Accused of Spying on it's users!
 Posted by: Tweaker
Date added: 23:23, 23rd January 2006
Source: InfoWorld

Mr Cringely has revealed that a colleague of his at Infoworld noticed that Zone Alarm 6.0 was sneakily sending off data to four different servers. Cringely says that Zone Labs (acquired by Checkpoint in March of 2004) at first denied the activity for a couple of months before deciding the software had a "bug" even though, as he points out, "the instructions to contact the servers were set out in the programs XML code."

The company says it will fix the "bug" soon. In the meantime you can work around it by adding:

# Block access to ZoneLabs Server

127.0.0.1 zonelabs.com

to your Windows host file.

The "bug" seems to be present in the retail version of Zone Alarm, so theres no telling what the freebie gets up to.

Title: Re: Zone Alarm Accused of Spying on it's users!
Post by: cyfer on January 26, 2006, 11:19:59 PM

I am not surprised.

Title: Re: Zone Alarm Accused of Spying on it's users!
Post by: Staind on January 27, 2006, 03:11:09 AM

It was only in the security suite, and the company did not release what was actually being sent.  Although overall I do have to agree it doesn't surprise me.  I'm always weary of ZA :)