Oh, the irony. Bob Cringely reported a couple weeks back that PC firewall software ZoneAlarm 6.0
has been
caught in the act of sending
encrypted data back to four Zone Labs servers, even when communication settings in the program are disabled. Oops.
After denying the reports for nearly two months, Zone Labs is now claiming that it's a bug, even though the connection
instructions are specifically indicated in the program's XML files. A fix for ZoneAlarm is expected soon, but in
the meantime you can block the traffic by adding a "127.0.0.1 zonelabs.com" entry to your Windows Hosts file.
Tags: firewall, phone home, security, zone labs, zonealarm, ZoneLabs
