>>>>Of course the one accused will claim innocence. We need third party verification.
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>Doesn't it make more sense for a serious software company (as ZA seems to be) if they get caught doing something wrong, to recognize the mistake and make the corrections necessary other that exposing themselves to get sued ?

I dont know Juan. Many times companies do not admit something until they have to. This is not proof of anything either way.


>They didn’t do that, instead they have this privacy policy that you can read at >http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/privacy.jsp

Not sure what this proves or disproves, if anything.


>Some things don’t work as described in the article, at least for me.
>After you uninstall ZA, does the file still exist? Did you try to uninstall ZA at all? I did, and those files are gone from that system.

The issue raised was what was ZA transmitting and why. It is a fair question.


>>Besides, although recently posted on the Universal Thread and other places, that article is so outdated (Oct 2005), that still refers to that firewall as Sygate, which does not exist anymore since it was acquired by Symantec back in November 2005.

Well Oct 2005 is only a couple of months ago and the Kerio personal firewall system is obviously available as evident by a huge link on the page they article refers to. And there are other articles out there.


>True, but some facts may not be accurate anymore. The article recommends a product that does not exist anymore and another has taken over its place. How many who read that article jumped to the sygate web site to get that software? I think many did so, only to find out that the best you could get was Norton Firewall. Isn't that misleading?

No its not, at least in my opinion. Things change, links change, products are bought and sold, and the Kerio pf is available. Why is this important to the question that was raised about what ZA was transmitting, and it clearly is even with all opt-outs selected and auto updates off?


>Besides, have you checked if the thing was resolved, or what was the ZA response? This is what I was trying to point out: people reading an outdated article about alleged malicious software, and without further ado, they wipe it off their systems.

People can wipe off or not whatever they like. If someone wants to remove something based on what they read that is their choice. I dont think the article was particularly outdated and it was not the only article out there on this topic.


>It is the misinformation what I have a problem with, the only real fact that you should be relatively worried about is the following from http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs :
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>“….We do currently have an issue where ZoneAlarm continues to ping a server when in fact a user has asked it to be disabled. It will be fixed as soon as possible…..”
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>The result of these actions are harmful for ones involved, because in the belief they did something good, they just removed their firewall protection.

If someone wants to remove their firewall software based on one article that is their concern not mine nor even of the author of the article(s). People can research the issues and make their choices.


I have no axe to grind with ZA Juan. I have used and promoted its use for a long time, many years. I raised a post based on articles read and asked for opinions. People are free to offer those opinions and take whatever action they think appropiate.