Re: Possible ZoneAlarm 3 Problem???

From: stefmit@starband.net
Date: 05/09/02 

From: stefmit@starband.net
To: <vuln-dev@securityfocus.com>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 07:21:38 -0500

I don't think ZA has anything to do with it. Did you actually read the
forums on that site? Could this be similar to what you are describing:

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=17071

On 8 May 2002 at 15:10, Nathan Anderson wrote:

> I was doing some surfing the web yesterday and one of the web sites
> haven't
> been to for a while had some weird characters around the web site. At
> first I assumed that they were doing some debugging since it appeared to
> be random 4 digit codes in random places on the web site. Later in that
> same session I had some problems viewing one of the theme demo pages on
> the same site; so I disabled the Privacy system in ZA and notice that
> the web site worked properly without the codes. So I investigated it a
> little more and here are the results of my tests:
>
> 1. I.E. 5.5 & Netscape 4.7x will both show the page with random 4 digit
> codes randomly through the page. 2. Netscape 6.2.1 won't show the page
> -- the view source for the page only shows "< html>< body>< /body><
> /html>" (without the spaces) 3. Opera 6.01 refuses to do anything with
> the page.
>
> If I disable the Zone Alarms Privacy features (i.e. Click on the Browser
> in Program Control->Programs and turn off Privacy) all the browsers work
> properly as then ZA is no longer filtering the connection.
>
> I filled out the form on ZA's website to report this and got back a nice
> canned response that had nothing to do with the problem I reported. So
> I replied and got another stupid response from them that again had very
> little to do with the problem.
>
> So can someone confirm this problem:
>
> I'm using Windows 2000 fully patched.
> Zone Alarm 3.0.118 (Latest Version)
> The web site www.phpbb.com.
>
> Nathan.
>

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