David H. Lipman wrote:
> "Mike Easter"

> | So far I have found nothing on the ZA website which even mentions/
> | acknowledges that Kaspersky provides the AV for ZA.

The ZA website is the front door for the ZA products
http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en....htm?lid=en-us

I finally found a blog related to that site and kaspersky term gets hits
in the subdomain blog.zonealarm.com such as
http://blog.zonealarm.com/blog/2006/...arm_suite.html ZoneAlarm
Security Suite Integrates Kaspersky Antivirus

Kaspersky discussions are also found a lot in subdomain forums.zonealarm.com

> http://www.checkpoint.com/products/za_iss/faq.html
>
> Q: What is new about the “new” antivirus engine?
> A: "Starting with version 7.0, ZoneAlarm offered a new antivirus engine that is arguably
> the most respected and effective antivirus engine available today. This award-winning
> Antivirus technology is from Kaspersky Labs. "

I don't consider that to be the same as being able to find the
relationship on zonealarm.com's discussion of its products.

If one searches for the concurrence of zonealarm and kaspersky, there
are plenty of hits, but my point is about zonealarm's site not
'presenting' the kaspersky technology upfront as the basis for its AV
while trying to take credit for the benefits of using the tech.

If a 'shopper' goes to zonealarm and reads lots and lots of ZA pages
promoting all the ZA products, the kaspersky relationship with those
products which use AV is kept a 'secret' -- except that ZA tries to
claim 'credit' for favorable AV comparisons, which AV comparisons only
mention kaspersky, not zonealarm's products.

It seems to me to be a form of 'duplicity' - hiding (not mentioning) one
thing, the Kaspersky relationship, while claiming 'credit' for positive
comparatives - which are not its own.


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Mike Easter