Alert : ZoneAlarm is a trojan !

last SG · 2006-01-22T23:15:17+00:00

Even if you use Symantec or McAfee, also got loopholes. Theirs worse than ZoneAlarm. Unless you use some others.

dark_snowboy SG

outpost fire wall pro im using Mr. Green

MobyDog SG

Same, to put instructions in XML, shows that it is delibrate. wtf

I have uninstalled it, and done a secure complete erase in folder. Got a new firewall already.

ditzy SG

Well, after all, it takes one to know one. Laughing

DailyFreeGames.com SG

holy shit, i always trusted and loved zone alarm… if this is true, it’s so freaking fucked up…

chanff8 SG

What about the free version of ZoneAlarm? Or it only works on ZoneAlarm Security Suite? Rolling Eyes

meltz SG

armour2net is nice .. .

HolySniper SG

oh no.. ZA is one of the trusted firewall protection ard.. wat are they doing now.. Shocked

anyway, i am using NIS 2003 or 5 i 4got.. boy is it memory hungry.. suck lots of ram outta my system.. but too bad for mi i used to it's interface liaoz so didn't reali care abt changing anymore.. juz let it run in backgrd.. stil gt enuff ram for my stuffs like 6 IE opening and playing cs/wc3/most wanted.. Laughing

ok it's 2003.. the main windows loads damn slow..

ha8n SG

Shocked

ShutterBug SG

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Originally posted by launtpc:

What, Symantec paid you? Stop posting NIS/Symantec propaganda. It installs more than 6 services which are always running, around 3 useless processes (like NOPDB, Norton Speed Disk. Why is it running when you are not de-fragging?) and 3 required processes all named cc*.exe. Worse still, opening the main Norton window is laggy as your machine is trying to run another process (NMain.exe). Therefore, Norton is a memory hog. No, this bug isn't fixed in NIS/NSW 2006. Tons of memory leaks should keep people like you happy.

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Hi launtpc,

Symantec doesn't pay me anything, I'm just sharing my exeriences.

I believe what you are referring to is Norton System Works; YES, that sucks.

NIS2006 will not be a memory hog, if you have above 512Mb of RAM, I am currently running on 1.5Gb DDR RAM on a 64bit platform.

Technically, if you are up to specs, any software will run fine.

I've had no real problems with NIS all these while.

I always say nothing good or that works, comes FREE. FREE stuffs will only work halfway, or is not what it is.

launtpc SG

Norton Internet Security 2005
The bottom line: Compared to McAfee and ZoneAlarm, Norton Internet Security 2005 isn't as comprehensive. Worse, it may even slow down your PC.

2005 is already inferior to ZA and even McAfee

I used the 2006 trial for one day, as it still installs the Sym Common Drivers that Systemworks use. SymEvent for one, and the ccApp and other processes. And I'm having 512MB RAM.

Not everyone is willing to get a 64-bit Ath X2 system with 2GB ram just to support that bloated crap.

Technically, if you are up to my specs, any software will work fine

Then why do people spend days, weeks, months or even years just to optimize their software? Rolling Eyes

So that it will run faster on higher-end systems, and reasonably fast on lower-powered systems so that the software can be used technically on every system. Customers do not buy things which lag their computer down or reduce its performace.

I'm giving up.

sohguanh SG

I always say nothing good or that works, comes FREE. FREE stuffs will only work halfway, or is not what it is.

That is a bad statement to make. You are trying to say to get any decent software must always pay money? For me, I write my own customised software at home and I use it and YES btw it is free Mr. Green

Hydro SG

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/01/microsoft_antispyware.html

Many Microsoft Windows users who downloaded the recently released AntiSpyware program from Microsoft, or had it installed through an automatic Windows update, woke up to a surprise. Unintentionally, the heuristics of the software detected Internet Explorer as spyware, and removed the program from their systems.

Mr. Green

chanff8 SG

Laughing

Great job Microsoft

Users of alternative browsers were happy to see Internet Explorer gone. Thad Freeman of the Mozilla Users Group said, "I've been trying for years to get rid of Internet Explorer. I never imagined that Microsoft would do it for me. I'm ecstatic."

Symantec Antivirus Research reported that virus sightings were down by 95% this morning.

This says alot about Internet Explorer Twisted Evil

RETARDED_MORON SG

Do not use any. Waste of disk space and effort.

An Eternal Now SG

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29254

Zone Labs says its firewall is no spy

No need for alarm

By Paul Hales: Wednesday 25 January 2006, 14:25
ZONE LABS claims the communications detected by Infoworld boffin James Borck between its Zone Alarm Firewall and a bunch of remote servers are benign.

See "Is your fireall spying on you?" here.

The company sent us a statement outlining what it says is the truth of the matter.

Furthermore, it suggests that blocking communications between the product and the company could "significantly compromise" the protection offered by its ZoneAlarm product.

It says the software is periodically updated as new web-threats arise and claims, "the only way to deliver those updates is to maintain some level of communication between the software on a users PC and the Zone Labs servers".

Here's a chunk of the statement:

"For any users who are concerned about this communication between the users PC and the Zone Labs servers, it is important to note that Zone Labs does not infringe upon the privacy of our customers. We dont save personal information. We dont do many other things that legitimate software companies do to enhance their marketing efforts, like use persistent Web cookies. This conservative approach is intentional because we take privacy extremely seriously.

"After being contacted by James Borck of Infoworld, we maintained an ongoing dialogue with him to discover the source of his issue. Initially, we were unable to reproduce it in our labs, until he submitted his log files. At that point, we were able to identify the bug and provided Mr. Borck with a temporary workaround. We never refuted his contention that an issue existed, although it did take some time to replicate it.

"The actual communication in dispute is a simple encrypted GET request that is checking to see if the users security software is current. We will continue to work with Mr. Borck and anyone else who might have any concerns about this issue." µ

er_liang89 SG

Originally posted by MobyDog:
[b]A Perfect Spy? It seems that ZoneAlarm Security Suite has been phoning home, even when told not to. Last fall, InfoWorld Senior Contributing Editor James Borck discovered ZA 6.0 was surreptitiously sending encrypted data back to four different servers, despite disabling all of the suites communications options. Zone Labs denied the flaw for nearly two months, then eventually chalked it up to a bug in the software -- even though instructions to contact the servers were set out in the programs XML code. A company spokesmodel says a fix for the flaw will be coming soon and worried users can get around the bug by modifying their Host file settings. However, theres no truth to the rumor that the NSA used ZoneAlarm to spy on U.S. citizens. http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/13/73792_03OPcringley_1.html

OMG Shocked WTF Evil or Very Mad , and I had so much faith in it. Time to look for a new Firewall. Worried if E.T. phoned home too often... somemore don't know what they download form my HD. KNNBCCB.

What I found out later was that ZoneLabs was bought out by Checkpoint, an Israeli company. Remember when the Israeli company that does all the phone company records was caught giving Israeli drug smugglers police phone and page data? That was the incident that blew the lid off the largest spy ring ever uncovered inside the United States, one that was eventually linked to 9-11 itself.

A video download of the spyring
http://stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/cspin/cspin20020329.rm&start=%25[/b]

now then u know

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