IMSecure

Thanks for the suggestion, but I’ve already been there and their Virtual On Line Help focuses plenty of Zone Alarm problems but not much for IMsecure Pro. And The darn thing keeps going back to network connectivity problems, which I don’t have. I can connect fine. The program starts fine, but it doesn’t encrypt my messages any more and it’s not logging actions anymore. ZL Help doesn’t address any of those issues. I suppose they want me to spend $2.95 a minute on their “Premium Phone Help” to figure out what’s wrong with their product. Hello….. Zone Labs, is anyone out there? I’m using your 15 day trial program….. I want to buy the registered version…… But if the registered version of IMsecure Pro is anything like the trial…. You aint gettin’ my dough!

AIM encryption made easy. I created a page with help on howto create a self-signed certificate (free) all by yourself. You can do it with OpenSSL or you can use a program I wrote to automate the process. I haven’t seen a page that teaches you howto make it yourself, so I wrote one 😉

Anyway if you use openSSL command-line style, there will be a few steps to go through. However, if you go with Self-Signed Certificate Creator (SSCC), you’ll be a click away from your own certificate.

AIM Encrypt’s publicly distributed certificate is really insecure, it gives you a false sense of security. Everyone with the exact same certficate can actually decrypt your messages. How secure is that?

So, DIY, make your own cert. After you do, I have some documentation on howto import it into AIM if you don’t already know. Please gimme some comments on howto improve the page/program 😉

URL is at:

http://secure.sylikc.net:8080/self_signed/
or just http://sylikc.net/?secure, and find the HOWTO on the bottom.