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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (8498)	2/27/2000 9:04:00 PM
From: caly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110587

Yes, so far I like BlackIce. It has more bells and whistles than Sybergen, but I'm not so sure they're necessary. When I installed ZoneAlarm 2.0 at work, it drove me crazy at first because I had it configured to filter OUTBOUND traffic too. It essentially prompts you everytime you use a new application to go out on the Internet. Funky things were happening with regard to it not allowing me to access certain sites at certain times. I'm not sure what that was all about, but it was annoying enough to disable it. BlackIce has certainly opened my eyes to the garbage going on out there. Within 3 days of installing it, I had been "probed" 22 times. The nice thing they do is give you good information about what the attack was and whether it's something you should worry about. Almost all of my attacks have just been sweeps where someone is probing an entire range of IP addresses looking for things like trojan horses and PC Anywhere. Just to see what would happen, I tattled on one user who must have hit me a half-dozen times with different probes. BlackIce gives you instructions on how to report these people and exactly what files you need to send to the attacker's ISP to report them. Within one day I heard back from the ISP telling me the problem had been handled. Haven't been probed by that user since. After the recent DOS attacks, I don't think they're messing around with these things anymore.