http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm Use this reference to give you a feedback of someone besides myself. I used Black Ice for about 6 months and I found that I got hacked. I had a hidden log that was running and found that 18 hours of logs were missing from the listing. Yea someone got into my system. Fortunately there was nothing to steal. Whoever it was knew the weakness of black ice. I do not know if they have ever fixed that problem. You can notice how well they fixed the Firewall leakage test as listed on this web site. My company wants me to move to black ice and I just don't have the courage to do that again. If you want to try it out go ahead but use it on a machine that you don't have any critical data on. I got attention from the hackers because I reported every probe attack from the hackers around the world. That part of the firewall works great. I just got one real mad at me and he wanted to prove himself against me. So far I have not been hacked using Zone alarm. Again not as useful but what do you expect with a free version for personal use. If you use a few tricks you can make Black ice secure. Run it as Restriced user. DO not have admin rights logged in. Then you can log in as an administrator to check the logs. Mininimize the profile. The smaller the target the better off you will be. Good luck.
-----Original Message----- From: garren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Feedback on BlackICE... Hi all, I am looking at BlackICE and wondering if anyone has good/bad feedback on the tool. Do you think it does a good job of the combined Firewall/IDS/etc security that it claims it does? I have it installed and running and it has caught a few port scans and a DoS on my system but that could be just window dressing. Feedback is a good think... looking forward to yours. Cheers...
