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January 23rd, 2004, 10:18 PM
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Why are you saying it’s sending your ebay password. Firewalls don’t have packet sniffers so how do you know what’s being sent.
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Unless he was using a sniffer of some sort, I don't see how he could pull the information to know what was in the packets being sent
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explain what makes you say it is broadcasting your "ebay Password"
First, software firewalls are all packetsniffers. That is the only way they can find what packets mean what, and how to drop them. Second, Zonealarm uses that packetsniffing filter to check for your ebay password. In setup, it has the option for you to put in sensitive information that you don't want escaping your computer no matter what(ie passwords, names, cc#'s, etc). A primary default setup is for it to ask what your ebay password is, and it will monitor it. If something tries to send text == to that password for ebay purposes or whathave you, zonealarm alerts you and halts that packet transfer.
It does the same thing with all outgoing programs, altering you to outgoing traffic, what it is, and if you want to block it or not. 
EDIT: I can't believe someone negged the origonal poster because they didn't understand how Zonealarm works, and assume that because he knows his ebay password was in danger, they assume he is up to illegal activity or covering something up. Seriously now...
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