Tor crashes ZoneAlarm

[Ringo Kamens]

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 zonelabs.com. 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.

On 9/17/06, Taka Khumbartha <scarreigns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/17/06, Ringo Kamens <2600denver at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
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> i think i can happily dis-agree with you.  after following the
> instructions
> on the zonealarm forum for dis-abling automatic updates, etc. one must
> also
> add "C:\Program Files\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\zlclient.exe" and
> "C:\WINDOWS\system32\ZoneLabs\UpdClient.exe" to the program control list
> and block all their access.  now, after you start windows & before
> connecting to the internet, start the packet sniffer like ethereal.
> zonealarm should already have started also.  after connecting to the
> internet, you will see the only thing zonealarm does is try to resolve
> zonelabs.com, which can be directed through Tor with something like
> TorDNS.
> after that, you will see there is no direct communication between your PC
> and ZoneLabs.  can anyone agree? :)
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