ZAAS blocks PC Flank

system · 2007-12-15T21:55:24.000Z

I have the “Patch Tuesday Special” of ZoneAlarm AntiSpyware. It includes ZA Pro fw.

I went to PC Flank site to do a fw check & ZAAS blocked PC Flank’s site, also got a pop-up from ZAAS notifying me it blocked the site as “Spy”.

Does PC Flank have a bad rep? Is it a spyware site?

I had no trouble with Shields UP, passed 100%.

On my laptop with Spyware Terminator & PC Tools fw+ I had no trouble with PC Flanks site, passed 100%. Shields Up, 100% also.

avast! on both! 8)

DavidR · 2007-12-15T23:22:12.000Z

I would have thought that the whole idea of trying to bypass a firewall may be considered malicious by anti-spyware, etc.

avast detects many firewall bypass files as it isn’t to know if this is legit or malicious use. It detects the zabypass.exe and breakout.exe that I know of but it doesn’t detect pcflankleaktest.exe (very old copy that I have on my system).

system · 2007-12-16T01:34:36.000Z

David,

Maybe I missunderstood you, but avast! didn’t block PC Flank’s website, ZAAS blocked it.

DavidR · 2007-12-16T02:27:31.000Z

That is what I said it is considered malicious by some ant-spyware/virus software although not detected by avast it is by the ZA anti-spyware, so there is nothing strange in that because of its actions.

Submit it to virustotal and you will probably see others consider it malware or a tool, etc.

system · 2007-12-16T05:47:17.000Z

Thank you.

It seems PC Flank is on ZAAS’s block list as I didn’t get a chance to click on any test. The block of the site was instant.

DavidR · 2007-12-16T13:55:21.000Z

If the site is on a block list, seems they are trying to avoid the test and possibly failing it.

system · 2007-12-20T00:06:46.000Z

I found the setting to unblock PC Flank in ZAAS. I tested ZAAS (ZA Pro fw) with PC Flank & it passed 100%. I’m not surprised, ZA free always passed.

Maybe PC Flank is a fp in ZAAS (ZoneAlarm AntiSpyware [includes ZA Pro fw]).

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