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ZoneAlarm Employs Scare Tactics Against Its Users
snydeq writes "Check Point Software appears to be ripping a page from the 'scum it claims to fight,' running a scare-tactic warning dialog to frighten users into upgrading to a paid version of the company's ZoneAlarm firewall product. Preying on fears of ZeuS.Zbot, the Check Point warning dialog tells users their PCs 'may be in danger' without having found ZeuS.Zbot, nor having checked to see whether you're running an antivirus product. 'The program doesn't care if you're infected with ZeuS.Zbot, or if you have protection in place. It just wants to sell you an upgrade to the firewall that may or may not detect future ZeuS.Zbot variants' activities — some day.' Check Point's customers have inundated the ZoneAlarm forums with complaints."
Wikipedia mentions a pre-version in 1998.
What matters is that age is not an excuse for a lack of feature. The firewall in windows sucked and still has a long way to go to match what a linux user had 12 years ago.
"Use this Microsoft software and then your Windows computer will be secure."
Yes I know they work reasonably well, but man does that make me cringe. :p
You're using Windows, and sneering at Lusers? That's like a dwarf taunting midgets.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.