'Spy Site' Blocked by Zone Alarm on a Forum Page -- Forum Talk in photography-on-the.net forums

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Aug 18, 2008 03:26 | #1

A couple of times recently my Zone Alarm has popped up with an alert telling me it has blocked access from a 'spy site'. It has happened on the same page each time, but not every time I have been on that page. Here's the page:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=6083826#post6083826

The name of the so-called spy site is ****. Is this anything to be concerned about, or is Zone Alarm being trigger-happy?

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Aug 18, 2008 03:34 | #2

AFAIK, "****" is mearly a site used to transcribe very long URLs into much smaller, more manageable sizes.

I've never heard of it being anything but passive and transparent but anything's possible I suppose.

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Aug 18, 2008 03:42 | #3

Okay, thanks. It's probably that then. Zone Alarm does get a bit jumpy sometimes!

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Aug 18, 2008 05:29 | #4

I'd rather have slightly paranoid security software than it go the other way. I guess what it is getting stressed by is that tinyurl can be used to disguise where a URL is really pointing to. Like many things in life this can be used for benign or malign purposes.

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Aug 18, 2008 06:06 | #5

Yes more POTN strangeness on my PC :lol: I never did get to the bottom of all the other strange goings-on that I occasionally complain about on here!

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