Re: lockup.zonelabs.com

From: David (davidwnh@ncia.net)
Date: 10/06/02 

From: "David" <davidwnh@ncia.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 05:38:11 GMT

Its just like everything else on the net. Companies are so afraid of
software and media piracy that they are writing protections into their
software and trying to get laws passed that ultimately just harass the
honest consumers. The hacker/cracker crowd will always find a way around
these things but the honest ones have to live with the bs that these
businesses are creating. I'm now FORCED to register software that I legally
pay for and accept the fate of an unending stream of spam because these
companies sell my email/home addresses. Even after monopoly litigation,
Microsoft still somehow gets away with forcing us to buy an operating system
we may not want or need if we buy a new computer. Then they try to coerce
us into enrolling in their master advertising scheme "Passport". The
websites are now so persistent in their advertising schemes that they force
us to get popup,cookie, and spam killers. If the music industry gets their
way we'll all be forced to buy new gadgets because they want to restrict the
ways in which we can listen to the music we have legally paid for the rights
to listen to.

Well I stopped upgrading windows with Win2k and now all my new systems will
have Linux. The software base is not as large yet, but is growing steadily.
I'm counting on the fact that the students\educators\hobbyists that are
writing this software are more concerned with quality as opposed to
companies whose sole objective is profit. I now see almost no advertising on
the web because everyone tried to force it down my throat, and I refuse to
buy any music that is protected and restricts me from listening to it when
and where and on what device I chose.

Staying in line with the current thread, as Zonelabs grows their objective
is changing from trying to provide a good product to trying to maximize
profits. I have seen so many products recently whose upgrade was solely
released to add or update copyright protection to their software. They go
through all this effort without fixing well-know bugs that are already
there. I agree they have every right to protect themselves from illegal use
of their software, but they need to spend more time figuring out how to
implement these schemes without alienating (and ultimately losing) their
true customers. And without adding more bugs to an already infested program!

I stopped using Zone Alarm Pro recently because they are just not fixing the
multitude of bugs in the program. Its fine if your just web surfing and
doing downloads over a dial-up connection, but trying to configure it to
protect you on the internet while at the same time allowing total access of
a trusted LAN .FORGET IT!. It just doesn't do what it is supposed to do, and
from version to version I didn't see a single bug that I complained about
corrected.

"TomS" <tomstatham@mochamail.com> wrote in message
news:anmj89$fha8t$1@ID-40169.news.dfncis.de...
> I had a problem with ZoneAlarm always wanting to connect to the internet.
I
> wrote to this group and was told:
> >Open your Internet Options Control Panel. Click on Advanced. Scroll
> > down, and uncheck "Check for publisher's certification revocation"
>
> This solved my problem and I was happy until I upgraded to the newer
version
> 3.1.395.
>
> It's doing it again! This is annoying to me and I don't have that option
> checked anymore either. I didn't know what to do. After it connects, no
> windows open so I ran CommView to see where it was trying to go. I got
this
> packet.
>
> 0x0000 20 53 52 43 00 00 44 45-53 54 00 00 08 00 45 00
SRC..DEST....E.
> 0x0010 00 41 0D 02 00 00 80 11-BA 25 41 EE 6A 8A C6 06
.A....?.º%AîjSÆ.
> 0x0020 01 06 04 53 00 35 00 2D-08 BE 00 01 01 00 00 01
...S.5.-.¾......
> 0x0030 00 00 00 00 00 00 06 6C-6F 63 6B 75 70 08 7A 6F
.......lockup.zo
> 0x0040 6E 65 6C 61 62 73 03 63-6F 6D 00 00 01 00 01 nelabs.com.....
>
> The only thing that I understand here is the address lockup.zonelabs.com.
> When I attempt to open this address on a web browser, I receive a
Forbidden
> error. Can anyone tell me what's going on here or how to stop ZA from
> activating the dialup everytime I start it?
>
> Does anyone else experience this?
>
> --TomS
>
>

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