Is Zone Alarm Forcefield Just Another Big Brother?

After reviewing all of hype on the ZoneLabs website, I couldn’t wait for Tuesday to arrive so I could get my copy with a license key for a free year of use! This was going to be great; Secure Browsing has finally arrived!! (I could hardly sleep that night!)

Once I downloaded the application and received my special license key, everything went just as the promos had stated. It installed very easily and put itself as an additional toolbar on both my Firefox and Internet Explorer toolbars which contained a ForceField drop down menu, Protection Activity, Site Status, and Private Browser.

But then things began to change; maybe it’s because after working for corporations for the past 10 yrs, one of which was in bankruptcy for 3 years and demolished their long standing defined pension program along with so many other cold hearted choices that I have an inherent distrust that corporations don’t always have my best interest in mind. Maybe it’s because I’m an armchair marketer and love watching how products are promoted, some of which are not done with sincere integrity. Maybe it’s because I’m a geek and love information (I like to watch a computer defrag to see how bad the fragmentation is!). Maybe it’s because I have a knack for processing information resulting in seeing patterns that many others don’t. Maybe it’s because I believe in taking personal responsibility for my actions and am therefore prone to not let others do it for me if at all possible.

Whatever the case, little by little some things started to show up as I continued to use Zone Alarm’s ForceField. At first they were annoyances, but eventually turned into big questions of what is really going on behind the scenes......

Read the full blog post here: http://mice.org/blog/is-zone-alarm-forcefield-just-another-big-brother-p...

» posted by dmahler

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