Tor crashes ZoneAlarm

[Ringo Kamens]

While I think it is important to correct the problem of tor-zonealarm
incompatibility I don't think anybody who uses tor should use zonealarm. Tor
is an anonymity and privacy tool and zone-alarm doesn't respect either of
these fundementals. When installed+run, zone-alarm "phones-home" (check for
yourself with a packet sniffer) even if you tell it not to access anything.
In other words, it breaks it's own rules and I wouldn't trust my
privacy/anonymity to it.

On 9/15/06, Lee Fisher <blibbet at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > No, Windows says it has created a error log, but I don't know where.
>
> Debugging Tools for Windows
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/default.mspx
>
> use a debugger to catch the problem as it happens. or use postmortem
> tools to look at the dump.
>
> programs like ZoneAlarm are hooking NT file system I/O and network port
> calls, and checking them. if file system filter drivers are not WELL
> written and WELL tested (especially interop with similar software
> installed on the same box) things will go wrong in strange ways.
>
> tools like this may also help:
> http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?article=199
> http://www.osronline.com/article.cfm?article=154
>
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