VirtualLarry
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| reply to IGGY
Re: Privacy in the new ZoneAlarm 5.5
said by IGGY  :I think it is very self explanatory. The option isn't present within the trial version. I would think that you could set this during the install of the product. I wouldn't be so quick to discount the exact wording of "does not appear", and equate it with "does not exist".
When ZoneLabs added the unique user-id tracking and phone-home feature to ZA Free back in the 3.x era, at one point there was an installer option to disable it, and they removed that option - but the feature was still there, and still enabled.
Personally, given their past history, my interpretation is that it phones home, and you have no say in the matter. If you want to disable that "feature" - then you must pay for the software.
said by IGGY :Since that is part of the installation process. The feature is present in my paid Suite version. I've not used the free version since a beta test a few years back. And I only played with it for a few days time. That's just it - the paid-for version shows you the option and gives you the choice to disable it. The free version (generally) does not. (Caveat: I haven't use ZA for quite some time, I stopped using it around when they started tracking users of the free one with no way to disable it, that was the final straw that pushed me to Kerio. So I can't say for certain that this new version is doing that, but I would personally tend to believe so.) |
