No problem on the direct reply, I'll just duplicate my reply here. :-) On Wed, 06 May 2009 22:18:00 +0200, Theo van Werkhoven wrote:
Have you ever used a product like ZoneAlarm on Windows? That's the model they're talking about, and it's very good because it puts the user in control and gives the user information.
Zonealarm is a commercial product made by people in a country with a vested interest to snoop on everyone else in the world. What ZA itself sends "home" it doesn't tell you.. If you think you're safe with something like that on your PC, then I certainly hope you're behind a firewall managed by a network admin who is smarter then you in these matters.
That's paranoid talk and assumes that nobody has stuck Wireshark on the wire to see what it's sending home. But even if it is true, doesn't that seem to support the idea that an OSS alternative might be a good idea? As for me, I use Linux, not Windows, so I don't run ZA personally. Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org