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Note: I have also e-mailed this to three addresses at Zone Labs:
info@, support@ and sales@zonelabs.com
Alan.

Alan Browne wrote:

> Dear Zone Labs,
>
> As you know very well, your free product "Zone Alarm" has been
> enthusiastically
> installed on thousands of PC's to help protect people against
> unauthorized intrusion.
> This is more important everyday as the number of cable modem served PC's
> in North America
> is estimated to have passed the 2 million mark.  Add to this the number
> of DSL subscribers
> and the benefits of good firewalls "for the masses" cannot be
> underestimated.
>
> Unfortunately, there have been a variety of allegations and questions
> surrounding the
> "TrueVector" technology inherent to Zone Alarm.  This has raised
> suspicions that
> the product is somehow reporting back private information about the
> "user habits"
> of users who have installed this wonderful product.
>
> I am one of those who has been labeled "paranoid" by several Zone Alarm
> fans.
> I am not paranoid.  But I am concerned.  What I do on the internet is MY
> business,
> and nobody else's.  If I want to tell you what I do, I'll tell you,
> otherwise leave me
> alone.
>
> I am also a fan of Zone Alarm (and I've had the thing for only 18
> hours!), but the
> allegations, suspicions and questions beg for a simple resolution:
>
> Would Zone Labs please publicly certify in a letter on the Zone Labs
> website, and
> also in the various apropriate newsgroups that Zone Alarm does not
> report anything
> back to Zone Labs or any other company, agency, person, etc. on the
> contents of the
> users system that could in anyway be construed as private information,
> INCLUDING
> information related to the users "internet habits", contents of files
> unrelated to
> Zone Alarm, etc.  I'll leave it to you and (probably) your lawyers to
> define the exact wording.
> But get this: people want their privacy RESPECTED in all manners.
>
> In fact, if you were to make such a statement while simultaneously
> introducing a price
> for this LEAN, effective and professional product, I would be among the
> first in a line
> of thousands to purchase a licence.
>
> Best Regards,
> Alan Browne.