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Re: ZoneAlarm phones home
From: "Dave Korn" <davek_throwaway () hotmail com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:41:39 -0000
Ivan . wrote:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/13/73792_03OPcringley_1.html
Sadly lacking in any details whatsoever, that article. I have once in the past noticed ZA doing a check-for-updates despite having configured it off, so I know there is at the very least a bug there, but I have no reason to suppose that was anything other than a bug; if it was a surreptitious backdoor or spyware, it would be bloody stupid to pop up the "There is an update available, do you want to download it?" dialog, but that's what it did. Without seeing the content of these packets, I don't see how Cringely can claim to know whether there's anything spyware or not about it. There is no *evidence* for his claim. I'm always suspicious of people who claim to have observed 'spyware phoning home' but who are then completely unable to give any details about the contents or destination of the packets, since it means that they are claiming something that they don't actually know at all. See also http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29254 cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- ZoneAlarm phones home Ivan . (Jan 23)
- Re: ZoneAlarm phones home Dave Korn (Jan 26)
- Re: Re: ZoneAlarm phones home Ivan . (Jan 26)
- Re: Re: ZoneAlarm phones home Dave Korn (Jan 27)
- Re: Re: Re: ZoneAlarm phones home Ivan . (Jan 27)
- Re: Re: ZoneAlarm phones home Ivan . (Jan 26)
- Re: ZoneAlarm phones home Dave Korn (Jan 26)
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