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Re: Zone Alarm - Why I don't trust it

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From: Mark Sieving
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:00

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bi446@torfree.net (Christopher Anthistle) wrote:

>I checked some of the Windows Registry entries it made and was surprised 
>to find that in
>
>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Zone Labs\ZoneAlarm\Registration]
>
>the user information was in encrypted format. I do not know of any other 
>programs that do this.  What, I wondered are these guys hiding.  Why is 
>the user denied knowledge of what registry information is kept about him 
>or her.  This is my registry, not theirs.

The only keys I have in my registry are LastCheckDate, which has a hex
value, and RegisterDate, which has the date I registered ZoneAlarm.

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