Re: Zone Alarm - A Very Simple Question
From: David (davidwnh@adelphia.net)Date: 10/17/02
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From: "David" <davidwnh@adelphia.net> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 01:35:45 GMT
The word "on the street" is ZoneLabs put a registration check routine in
their newest version to disable the use of readily available "cracked" reg.
numbers.
Put in my words: they added a new bug for the honest paying customer because
of the misdeeds of the dishonest.
Or you could say they put spyware in a program that is designed to detect
spyware.
"Frog" <FrogRemailer@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:IJ7O2JSF37544.9456018519@Gilgamesh-frog.org...
> In article <HhLq9.42113$Fz.125616@rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net>
> "mhicaoidh" <mhic_aoidh@hotmail.NïX.com.SPäM> wrote:
>
> Obviously, I am on dialup. I get the service free from a local isp that I
> do some work for so it stays and I'm patient as I, pardon me, "surf." The
> problem I found with the new update was that it would not just attempt to
> dial once but would continue to do so until you allowed it. Then, a puzzle
> to me, was that the connect would dial but never really "connect." Then
the
> cycle would begin again. I'm using Home XP but I found the same problem in
> Win98. If all I had to do was a one click cancel, I would almost have been
> happy. However, I still don't think that upgrades should actually have you
> do extra work but that's my opinion. The kicker is that I installed
another
> firewall and tried it. Somewhere along the line, I read of a host address
> change that could be made and tried that. I was not allowed to enter that
> change but in the interim, the other firewall was uninstalled while an
> updated ZA was reinstalled. To my surprise, it works fine now with no
> attempts to dial. ONe thing it does ask, and this is a personal edition,
> when connect is made, it tells me it has blocked a ZA site for
registration
> even thought his version requires no registraton???? At any rate, I
checked
> the box telling the app not to show again. Dialup "solved." Registraton
> ping "solved." I'm happy but I'm not sure why ;-)
>
>
>
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