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Originally Posted by timwilky
Apparently this is very well documented that zone alarm is providing feedback to checkpoint. There is supposed to be an easy fix to stop this by making an entry within your host file of:
127.0.0.1 zonelabs.com
This should then point resolution for zonelabs back to the PC itself.
Personally I don't run any firewall on my widows boxes as they sit behind my hardware firewalls and don't have any incoming internet services. Even though my linux boxes sit behind the firewalls as well I then use iptables to further tie the down as well as running armour scripts and turning off all unnecessary services.
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Well you learn something new every day
Tim and Spidey you have my apologies for not believing you both.
Although I have to say, the information I could find does not say anything about sending files to an Israeli Security Company, and I wouldn't exactly say that it was "well documented" either ... after all, there are MANY of us on here that use ZA that weren't aware of this, and after digging a little deeper, I only managed to find a ONE article and ONE reference to the fact that ZA contacts the CheckPoint servers
even after all communications have beed switched off in the product.
See
here (wikipedia entry)
And
here (InfoWorld article)
Also, see
here (how to disable ZA server communications)
(or you could use Tim's 'host file' suggestion
)
However, after reading the references, it's not going to prevent me from using what is a very good product.
Thanks for the "heads up" tho
Cheers,
Pete