Got this pop-up from Zone Alarm

13 years ago

Global Virus Alert

Risk: High

Threat name: ZeuS.Zbot.aoaq

Discovered 9/13/2010

Trojan Virus steals banking passwords and financial account data.

Your computer is at risk using the free ZA.

It goes on to show how AVG, AVAST, Norton, do not protect against this virus. Only the ZA suite will protect 100%

I keep getting this pop up on my netbook. I just updated to FF 3.9 and the MS updates and Flash.

Anyone heard anything about this?

Jane

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sugar_fl
13 years ago
My son just called & woke me up with the same popup.. what is going on?
sugar_fl
13 years ago
My son was in minefield when it popped on. He has just updated to FF 3.6.10 today. He downloaded FF from Softpedia
and minefield from the Mozilla site.
Dar
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owbist
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It goes on to show how AVG, AVAST, Norton, do not protect against this virus. Only the ZA suite will protect 100%

That strikes me as pure scareware, sad that Zonealarm has lowered it's standards to that level to encourage buying the pro version.

My (limited) understanding of virus and malware is that all companies involved cooperate when trying to keep us safe. Can anyone really believe that the other companies are sat back enjoying a coffee and ignoring this?
zep516
13 years ago
More here,

Zonealarm Marketing Trick!

Here is a link that might be useful: zonealarm-false-alarm
sugar_fl
13 years ago
What is another GOOD firewall that is free.. think we are gonna change.
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jane__ny
Original Author
13 years ago
Thank you Zep. I think I will copy that letter and send it off to them.

This must be connected to the updated Firefox. I have 5 machines. I updated FF on two computers, so far. I'm only getting this popup on those two machines.

Why would FF get involved with this?

Jane
zep516
13 years ago
I'd tend to think that is some kind of coincidence. Don't see how that is possible that Firefox up-date has anything to do with it. I'm sure others are reporting the problem even with out Firefox installed. As to why the other computers are not affected I can't answer. You're in the perfect setting for a test, up date the 3ed pc and see..
sugar_fl
13 years ago
I just updated FF yesterday.. I rebooted a few minutes ago & got the same popup. I rebooted yesterday before the update with no popup.
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ravencajun Zone 8b TX
13 years ago
unfortunately it is not the first time zonealarm has chosen some really bad marketing methods, they did one of these type some time back and of course the adding of the toolbars in the free version has had it put in the Hall of Shame for a while now. It is still a very good firewall and free is nice but I am sure many will leave them due to their methods.
As to other free firewalls Online Armor and Outpost are good options. here is a list from Gizmo's
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I will add this, I and several others in the security community no longer recommend Comodo due to some of their business practices, so consider that before choosing it and you can of course do some research on that to find out more info. Corrine had several good write up's on her blog.
grandms
13 years ago
I got the same sleazy marketing page from ZA this morning using Chrome browser. It has nothing to do with FF. If I can find a free version of Online Armor, I think I'll go back to it.
zep516
13 years ago
Well be careful uninstalling it,

Unfortunately when you attempt to remove Zone Alarm Firewall and if fails then you internet connection may stop working and itÃ¯Â¿Â½s very difficult to fix that issue.

I have never used the tool or recommended it. But I do know it can be difficult to remove.

Here is a link that might be useful: firewall-with-zone-alarm-removal-too