Download a copy of tcpview, then you can see what is
connected to your PC....
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I doubt this is anything serious at all. A well known software product like ZoneAlarm simply cannot send information to somewhere covertly without someone finding out about it pretty quick by simply looking at what data is being sent out. The people who make zone alarm would realise this and so I don't believe they would even think about attempting it.
My firewall: a Hub, an old Pentium III PC, pulled out the CDRom, HardDrive, Video and Sound cards, 8 megs ram, and have two NIC cards. Basically it's a stripped down computer. Then I use http://www.coyotelinux.com/ free firewall. Everything is blocked; everything. The firewall runs off the floppy disk into Ram. Completely invisible from the outside world. I packed up my LinkSys; ppl can still get to ya. Software Firewalls eat system resources, KT recommends to get a real hardware firewall (linksys are pseudo hardware fw...it is really still primarily a software fw) and use your old PC to make a killer FW.
127.0.0.1 is listed as "loopback adapter" under the firewall and zones area in ZA 6.xx
This guy just drips paranoia. Why do I care what Israel thinks I am doing?
The news is also all over Usenet that Checkpoint is spying through Zone Alarm. I do not use Zone Alarm.