Another problem I faced with ZA that made me disable all privacy features in it was the fact that some random images were replaced on sites by other images from sites I had previously visited! It freaked me out and I actually thought I was compromised :) But on further investigation I found out that the way ZA pro works is that it sets up a proxy on ur machine, and your web browser access the websites through the ZA proxy, and the ZA proxy filters out all the things you configure it to filter out, all of this happens behind the scenes and without any user intentions and any changes in proxy settings on the browser.
At first, the new ZA privacy options seemed great, but they were too buggy, slowed down web-browsing , and made some sites unusable, so I simply turned all privacy options off. -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:19 AM To: 'macula@secure'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Possible ZoneAlarm 3 Problem??? I got a couple responses back today and in summation it appears to be a proxy problem on the server. The bug apparently can be easily corrected on the server side and they will be fixing it shortly. The phpbb.com proxy doesn't strip the packet content length on a http 1.0 connection -- which is why you get a 4 digit code randomly in the html source. Za privacy forces a http 1.0 connection when it is active. Otherwise most modern browsers use http 1.1 connections where this isn't a problem (unless you are behind some other proxy which forces a 1.0 connection). Nathan. -----Original Message----- From: macula@secure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 6:51 PM To: Nathan Anderson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Possible ZoneAlarm 3 Problem??? had the exact same problem. i was using ie6 and za 3 pro. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 3:01 AM Subject: Possible ZoneAlarm 3 Problem??? > > I was doing some surfing the web yesterday and one of the web sites haven't > been to for a while had some weird characters around the web site. At first > I assumed that they were doing some debugging since it appeared to be random > 4 digit codes in random places on the web site. Later in that same session > I had some problems viewing one of the theme demo pages on the same > site; so > I disabled the Privacy system in ZA and notice that the web site > worked properly without the codes. So I investigated it a little more > and here are > the results of my tests: > > 1. I.E. 5.5 & Netscape 4.7x will both show the page with random 4 > digit codes randomly through the page. 2. Netscape 6.2.1 won't show > the page -- the view source for the page only shows "< html>< body>< > /body>< /html>" (without the spaces) 3. Opera 6.01 refuses to do > anything with the page. > > If I disable the Zone Alarms Privacy features (i.e. Click on the > Browser in > Program Control->Programs and turn off Privacy) all the browsers work > properly as then ZA is no longer filtering the connection. > > I filled out the form on ZA's website to report this and got back a > nice canned response that had nothing to do with the problem I > reported. So I replied and got another stupid response from them that > again had very little > to do with the problem. > > So can someone confirm this problem: > > I'm using Windows 2000 fully patched. > Zone Alarm 3.0.118 (Latest Version) > The web site www.phpbb.com. > > Nathan.
