Is Your Firewall Spying On You?
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-Zone Alarm Gets Rumbled-

By paul Hales in Jerusalem
Sunday 22 January 2006
The Inquirer

Its obvious, really, that the best way of penetrating users' pc to see what they get up to online would be to become a firewall maker.

Like, when I wanted a firewall and it was too tight to pay for one, I turned to Checkpoint's little freebie Zone Alarm.

Now the handsomely-named Mr. Cringely has revealed: http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/13/73792_03OPcringley_1.html that a colleague of his at Infoworld noticed that Zone Alarm 6.0 was sneakingly sending off data to four different servers, "the instructions to contact the servers were set out in the programs XML Code."

In the meantime you can work around it by adding:

#Block access to ZoneLabs Server
127.0.0.1zonelabs.com
to your windows host file.

Source for complete article:
http://theinquirer.net/?article=29157