« Reply #2 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:
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.
Logged
MB: GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD3H Intel 7 Series - LGA1155, CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K - Quad Core, 3.40GHz (3.80GHz Max Turbo), CPU COOLER: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO Direct Heat Pipe R2, RAM: 16 GB Kingston HyperX Blu DDR3, VIDEO CARD: Galaxy GeForce GTX 560 Ti - 1GB, GDDR5, POWER SUPPLY: Corsair Enthusiast Series TX750 V2 - 750 Watts, HD: Seagate Barracuda - 2TB, 7200RPM, 64MB, SATA 6Gb/s
