That hasn't been my experience. I had not only told zone-alarm that the
executable couldn't access any network, but that it also couldn't allow
DNS resolving and it still tried to resolve <a href="http://zonelabs.com">zonelabs.com</a>. Luckily
because of my network setup, it couldn't. The scary thing is that it
doesn't obey it's rules and it's closed-source so there's no way of
knowing wether it's an honest program or not.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/17/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Taka Khumbartha</b> <<a href="mailto:scarreigns@gmail.com">scarreigns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 9/17/06, Ringo Kamens <<a href="mailto:2600denver@gmail.com">2600denver@gmail.com
</a>> wrote:<br>> While I think it is important to correct the problem of tor-zonealarm<br>> incompatibility I don't think anybody who uses tor should use zonealarm. Tor<br>> is an anonymity and privacy tool and zone-alarm doesn't respect either of
<br>> these fundementals. When installed+run, zone-alarm "phones-home" (check for<br>> yourself with a packet sniffer) even if you tell it not to access anything.<br>> In other words, it breaks it's own rules and I wouldn't trust my
<br>> privacy/anonymity to it.<br>><br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>i think i can happily dis-agree with you. after following the instructions<br>on the zonealarm forum for dis-abling automatic updates, etc. one must also
<br>add "C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe" and<br>"C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs\UpdClient.exe" to the program control list<br>and block all their access. now, after you start windows & before
<br>connecting to the internet, start the packet sniffer like ethereal.<br>zonealarm should already have started also. after connecting to the<br>internet, you will see the only thing zonealarm does is try to resolve<br>
<a href="http://zonelabs.com">zonelabs.com</a>, which can be directed through Tor with something like TorDNS.<br> after that, you will see there is no direct communication between your PC<br>and ZoneLabs. can anyone agree? :)
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