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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: aldrums who wrote (11040)	6/24/2000 11:27:00 AM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 14778

"wonder if I should upgrade or leave well enough alone" if you have 2.1.u, you are current. 2.1.w was released to resolve conflicts with 'u'. if you don't have the most current version on your 2nd puter, take a look at the fixes, changes and add-ons (like beefed up intrusion detection, support for win2000, audible alarms, new interface, more) provided by the new release: *********************** "What: This is BlackICE Defender release 2.1. Why: This release provides the following fixes/changes: Support for Windows 2000. BlackICE is now supported to run on Windows 2000 Pro. Improved user interface and functions: Configurable severity levels to trigger visual and (new) audible attack notification. Configurable Attacks and Intruders tab columns; you can view all of the data previously hidden in attack-list.csv. Visible menu. Attacks and Intruders tabs now have indication of an attacker's or intruder's blocked state. Copy to clipboard (via Ctrl-C) capability on Attacks and Intruders tabs. Graphical LED lights that provide visual indication of network activity. Auto-checking for new BlackICE updates Auto-port blocking response. BlackICE will now do an automatic port block on certain critical attacks (e.g. Trojan horse attacks like Back Orifice) New Detections: FTP file exec exploit FTP compress exec exploit POP3 RETR argument very long Empty fragment ICMP flood Twinge attack Zero length TCP option TCP small segment size TCP SYN with URG flag TCP Invalid Urgent offset UDP short header DNS BIND version request DNS null PrettyPark worm ILOVEYOU virus NetSphere HTTP activity HTTP asp with \ appended CGI finger.cgi WebSpeed admin URL UBB suspicious posting SubSeven ICQ pager URL Oracle batch file URL sojourn.cgi argument contains %00 Index Server null.htw exploit FrontPage extension backdoor URL FrontPage htimage.exe URL InfoSearch CGI exploit Cart32 Clientlist URL Cart32 ChangeAdminPassword URL Listserv CGI exploit HTTP URL contains %00 HTTP User Agent field overflow SMB startup file SMB autoexec.bat file SOCKS login failed SOCKS connect SOCKS over SOCKS SNTP malformed RPC bad credentials RPC suspicious credentials RPC getport probe rpc.sadmind overflow Mstream agent activity Mstream handler activity Applicability: This update is applicable to all BlackICE Defender releases. Content: BlackICE Defender Release 2.1 blackice.exe version 2.1 blackd.exe version 2.1 blackdll.dll version 2.1 blackdrv.vxd version 2.1 (for Win 95/98) blackdrv.sys version 2.1 (for Win NT) " ************************* imo, networkice has smoothed out most of the initial wrinkles that surfaced immediately after the 6/10/00 update release. hope this helps :) mark