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John Corliss wrote:

> Christopher Anthistle wrote:
>
> > Absolute trust in Zone Alarm is required by the user (that it will not
> > transmit unauthorized data), I don't now have that trust so I
> > uninstalled it (using the custom option to get rid of everything listed)
> > a few days after I installed it.

Then I said:

> Well, this is sure a shock. Good job on your research. I had installed Zone
> Alarm on my system, but then removed it because it slowed everything down so
> much. By backing up my registry, and using InCtrl4 and Catfish I caught and
> removed all the leftovers after I uninstalled. At the time of the uninstall,
> I remember briefly thinking how odd it was that anything should be left on
> my hard drive after removing the program.
>     After reading your post I took a hard look at my registry just to be
> sure. There were none of the entries you mentioned, so I must have restored
> the previous version of my registry.

Well, I've reconsidered after reading some of the replies to your post. Still a
good job of detective work, but I think we can pretty much rest assured about
the personal info being for their use only. I would feel safe using  Zone Alarm.
However, I won't because of the way it slowed down my system.
--
John Corliss
'69 FLH
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