charlie R wrote:

>
> "Dick Hazeleger" <Dick@post_it_in_the_newsgroup.com> wrote in message
> news:vk7l3lbn26j05f@corp.supernews.com...
> charlie R wrote:
>
> "Igor
> > Gutman" <gutman@videotron.ca> wrote in message
> > news:3F3FD549.BEF33677@videotron.ca... charlie R wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello again......Go to the ZoneLabs forums website, sign in and
> > > ask your question there. charlie R
> >
> > In any case, ZoneAlarm is not spyware. If True Vector Service
> > doesn't connect to the internet, how do you suppose it is going to
> > identify the intruders? True Vector Service "protects the client",
> > as I understand it, and I trust it to do so. All my ports are
> > "Stealthed", thanks to ZoneAlarm, and True Vector Service. When I
> > have a question about ZoneAlarm, I go to the ZoneLabs Community
> > forums, where experts can answer the question. When I want to know
> > more about Spyware, I come to this newsgroup. charlie R
>
> > i don't get it.. can't someone here simply tell me, whether it's
> > normal or not that ZoneAalram Pro's TrueVector Service is always
> > trying to connect to somewhere outside?
> > i just don't want to go to other forums, sign-up, and the whole crap
> > - just because of ONE SIMPLE LITTLE QUESTION that can easily be
> > answerred here! thank you very much, charlie R
>
> "Mixed posting" corrected
>
> Charly,
>
> And to what site or IP-address does ZAP try to connect? Perhaps that
> would give a clue?! Also, you might think of installing and running a
> packet sniffer and - after allowing the connection - see what "goes
> out"? Then you would know for sure whether there is comething wrong or
> not!
>
> Dick
>
> Hi....I guess I'm just not that paranoid. ZAP connects to
> fwalerts.zonelabs.com when I ask for more info. It connects to
> mynetwatchman.com for a who is lookup and incident report. On the
> really rare occasion that it checks for updates, I give it permission
> to update, and it does. There are improvements and added features
> when done. Checks for spyware, malware, and BHO's find zilch. My
> Antivirus prog is updated first thing every day. Lately, new
> signatures are added sometimes twice a day. I receive daily virus
> alerts from Panda Software.com. I have never had a virus on this
> machine. Panda has nuked several, though. No reason to be paranoid.
> charlie R.

Hi Charlie,

My answer had nothing to do with being paranoid or not, it just gave
you ideas about how to find out where the "outbound traffic" was going,
and since you didn't mention the addresses etc. I had to assume you
didn't know... in which case the procedure I outlined would have given
you a) Information on IP's and domains it was trying to connect to; and
b) the data it had exchanged (so you could examine that, to find out
whether or not this had to do with spying!) with the outside world!
Hope this clarifies the context in which my answer was posted.

Dick