I'm clean

[Don Rose]

Hi Ron,

Zonealarm is freeware and will fill the bill. I don't know why it will not
run on your puter. PKunzip for dos does not have your little attachment and
works extremely well and is freeware. Aladdin expander for windows is
freeware and also does not include little *extras*.

To see if your computer is vulnerable to attack go here:

https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

Then click test my sheilds and probe my ports. 

At 10:24 AM 10/29/2000 -0600, you wrote:

>I downloaded PKZip from the Web site, to get a decent Windows based zip
>manager. The non-retail version of this program (don't know about the
>retail version) includes a cute little unannounced worm called Tsadbot that
>forever more runs in the background and communicates with SOMETHING out
>there in cyberland whenever your computer is running. The idea, I think, is
>that this little gargoyle is assembling, and presumably disseminating, a
>compilation of your Net trafficking habits (and possibly (probably))
>installed software list, for a user profile database to be sold to other
>vendors as a marketing tool. In truth, it could be sending ANYTHING off
>your hard drive to ANYONE out there and you wouldn't know the difference.
>Zone Alarm will control traffic in both directions, but I can't get it to
>work for some reason. Can't access the thing once it's installed to
>configure it, but it did tell me what was happening when it detected
>outbound traffic. PKZip, interestingly enough, will not run without it's
>parasite. 
>
>Quite a few vendors offering shareware or freeware versions of their
>commercial software are using this thing, so if you use any shareware
>products from prominent companies, you may have it. Decide for yourself
>whether it's important enough to be concerned about. 
>
>Now, does anyone know of a good firewall that DOES monitor and
>report/control outbound traffic as well as inbound?
>
>Ron N
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