Prevent ZoneAlarm from phoning home

Amit Agarwal
Zonelabs ZoneAlarm Security Suite phones home even when instructed not to contact ZoneLabs servers.

To block ZoneAlarm Firewall from phoning home, add the following code to your Windows hosts file:

127.0.0.1 cm2.zonelabs.com
127.0.0.1 hs2.zonelabs.com
127.0.0.1 ls2.zonelabs.com
127.0.0.1 pa2.zonelabs.com
127.0.0.1 ps2.zonelabs.com
127.0.0.1 register.zonelabs.com
127.0.0.1 update.zonelabs.com

Location of Windows Hosts file:

Windows 95/98/Me c:\windows\hosts

Windows NT/2000/XP Pro c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Windows XP Home c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts