Filed under: Security, Windows
ZoneAlarm spying on its users?
by Jordan Running Jan 23rd 2006
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.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
