Re: Zone Alarm connects to the Internet on startup
From: Bubba Jean (dtaylor@aravox.com)Date: 04/01/02
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From: "Bubba Jean" <dtaylor@aravox.com> Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:40:43 GMT
"CJ" <chas@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:uahb1s6b4qlk91@corp.supernews.com...
> It is happening to all the ZA Pro 3 users. Many people that are in the
> know suspect it is some kind of personal information gathering service
> not disclosed to ZA Pro 3 customers but used behind the scenes to gather
> sensitive and detailed internet usage patterns and habits from all it's
> users.
...other people in the know might believe what Zone Labs says in their
literature -- that the software is checking for updates (like lots of other
software does).
>
> The ZA Pro 3 firewall sees - ALL - your internet traffic (incoming
> and outgoing) so email, newsgroups, web surfing, ftp, telnet, ICQ, MS
> Instant Messenger, any porn dialers etc all get reported back to Zone
> Labs so they can sell that personal info to the highest bidder.
Duh! Of course it sees all your traffic. It's a firewall program. "Seeing
all your traffic" in itself doesn't justify any supposition of malicious
intent
on the part of Zone Labs.
>
> That is what some security expert people claim Zoned-Out Labs is up
> to....why chance it?
> Drop ZA Pro 3 now and the anonymous and secretive internet access by
> that program will stop once-and-for-all...you don't owe them access to
> that highly personal and possibly damaging information...
Methinks that an "expert" would not leap to the conclusion above, unless
there were a good bit more evidence.
>
> --
> Thanks for the nice Usenet message...
>
> Charles Johnston
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