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From: jhintz <>
Subject: Re: FTM was Re: [FreeHelp] ZoneAlarm
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 11:55:52 -0600
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Please "can it" and move you discussion offline or to a more appropriate
list. One of you is talking about a specific bit of software by a
specific company, and the other is talking about a *class* of software -
and nit-picking what "might happen".

-J

Robert W Fay wrote:
>
> Joan,
> On 29 Dec 2001 at 12:13 someone wrote:
> > This is probably getting a bit far afield for this list (sorry Pat) but
> > I didn't want to let this statement stand.
> Really, it should go to the Virus list
>
> It is "spyware" only in the
> > broadest sense of the word, and I've never heard anyone call it a
> > "trojan" before.
> Nope. Better check the AV sites and the archives of Virus-L and
> alt.comp.virus and alt.comp.anti-virus. Its clearly a trojan and that
> is widely agreed. If it weren't a trojan, then ZA would not detect it

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