ZoneAlarm Now Treats tinyurl.com as Spy Site

[Dick K]

My copy of ZoneAlarm, running under MCE2005, has recently
started to block tinyurl.com as a spy site. Previously
it allowed normal access. Is this modified behaviour now
normal and justifiable or have I got a problem with my
system? If the latter, advice would be welcome.

 

[Slarty]

My copy of ZoneAlarm, running under MCE2005, has recently
started to block tinyurl.com as a spy site. Previously
it allowed normal access. Is this modified behaviour now
normal and justifiable or have I got a problem with my
system? If the latter, advice would be welcome.

The very name 'Zonealarm' is all you need to know. You have the solution,
or do you let that application control what you are allowed to do?

 

[Dave Cohen]

My copy of ZoneAlarm, running under MCE2005, has recently
started to block tinyurl.com as a spy site. Previously
it allowed normal access. Is this modified behaviour now
normal and justifiable or have I got a problem with my
system? If the latter, advice would be welcome.

No problem with the free version running winxp. I use www.tinyurl.com
from time to time.
Dave Cohen

 

[Dick K]

No problem with the free version running winxp. I use www.tinyurl.com
from time to time.
Dave Cohen

Thanks for the reply. At least I now know that it's not a general
problem, I can only find one very old reference suggesting that
tinyurl might be unsafe:

http://users.tns.net/~skingery/weblog/2004/10/tinyurlcom-spyware.html

Absent any explanation I guess I'll just have hope for the best,
override the block in ZoneAlarm and write this off as one of those
inexplicable events which plague Windows from time to time.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

phaoloo joined this Usenet-scraping forum today to make his first post:

You can now preview the real link behind "tinyurl" link by typing
*preview* at the beginning of the link (http://tinyurl/techarena.in
--> http://preview.tinyurl/techarena.in)

You forgot the required TLDs in your links.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/techarena.in

...which still doesn't work. And adding "preview." to the links is very
old news.