{"id":304,"date":"2010-09-20T21:20:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T01:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/20\/checkpointzone-alarm-lose-with-fake-threat\/"},"modified":"2010-09-20T21:20:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T01:20:23","slug":"checkpointzone-alarm-lose-with-fake-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/20\/checkpointzone-alarm-lose-with-fake-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"CheckPoint\/Zone Alarm Lose with fake threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve written about this tactic before – using ‘rogue\/fake’ threat or infection warnings to distribute REAL malware<\/a>. This is one very effective way to get unsuspecting or untrained people to accidentally actually \u2018infect\u2019 themselves.<\/p>\n

It now appears that a legitimate (using that word lightly now) company – CheckPoint, makers of ZoneAlarm is using the same tactic to ‘up sell’ their products to unsuspecting consumers. I hope others do not follow.<\/p>\n

Please take the time to read this very short article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At one time I used and recommended their products and most were quite good. In fact ZoneAlarm was one of the first \u2018software firewalls\u2019 I every used consistantly \u2013 over a decade ago.
However………<\/p>\n

With this move CheckPoint has assured itself that it will be uninstalled and\/or blocked on ALL of the machines (hundreds) I manage or have any influence upon.
I am passing this information to EVERYONE in my sphere of influence and I hope they do the same. Maybe even demand a refund pro-rata on any products they have installed. <\/p>\n

Real D*%k move CheckPoint. See you later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve written about this tactic before – using ‘rogue\/fake’ threat or infection warnings to distribute REAL malware. This is one very effective way to get unsuspecting or untrained people to accidentally actually \u2018infect\u2019 themselves. It now appears that a legitimate (using that word lightly now) company – CheckPoint, makers of ZoneAlarm is using the same … Continue reading “CheckPoint\/Zone Alarm Lose with fake threat”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,135,80,52,136,51,11],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikemartinezonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}