The place you'd look for a piece of software spying on your would be in your firewall app, right? When you start to think about it, however, it becomes clear that a Firewall is an ideal app to do some snooping. It sits there, knowing about every application that tries to access the network and all packets of network bound data go through it. It's a surpise that no firewalls are sending any data back to base then, isn't it? Oh wait, some are...[The Inquirer]Now, the handsomely-named Mr Cringely has revealed that a colleague of his at Infoworld noticed that Zone Alarm 6.0 was sneakily sending off data to four different servers. Cringely says that Zone Labs (acquired by Checkpoint in March of 2004) at first denied the activity for a couple of months before deciding the software had a "bug" even though, as he points out, "the instructions to contact the servers were set out in the program’s XML code."


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) PC-Cillin is not much better as a firewall..As an antivirus solution I think PC-Cillin is great, but for firewalls...combined with the SPI one in my router I use the windowsSP2 firewall..works fine tbh.
