I have been REALLY happy with the @Guard software firewall, but the company
has licensed its technology to Symantec and stopped selling it. I'm sorry
about that. Symantec paired the @guard code with its Anti-Virus technology,
which means that it no longer works on NT. The @Guard product combined a
software firewall with ad blocking software, content filtering and a decent
logfile set. They also gave it a very easy to use interface that includes a
dashboard that has a kind of GUI "netstat -a" type thingy going on. Upon
install, the firewall allows nothing out and nothing in, you have to set up
rules, and there is a handy rules-wizard that will pop up every time
something that is not "permitted" is trying to happen.
>From my *brief* examination of the Symantec site, it appears that they kept
all of this functionality, and added anti-virus protection between the
firewall and the computer.
You may want to check out this product for your Win9x/2000 boxes. It was
called Norton Internet something or other. The site is at
http://www.symantec.com yada, yada, yada.
Michael.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Gardner
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 2:07 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Quick qeustion about BlackIce Defender.
>
>
> At 02:02 AM 2/27/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >If i somehow get infected with a trojan such as Netbus or BO2k
> >which opens a backdoor in my computer and allows access for
> >others, will BlackIce stop the attacker from getting into my
> >computer using that backdoor?
>
> BID is not really a firewall, so no, it won't. It does monitor
> TCP and UDP
> ports and will tell you if and when someone is portscanning you (though
> often unnecessarily alarming the inexperienced), but that's about it. One
> thing I noticed about it was that before I installed it on my
> test Windows
> box, I portscanned the box from one of my Linux servers with nmap, and
> found no open ports. Once I installed BID and portscanned again,
> there were
> over 1400 ports open (mostly UDP). The BlackIce "support team" (meaning,
> read the website's pages and forget about calling) says that this is
> because portscanners often misread what BID is doing and that the ports
> aren't really open. When I asked "support" by email to further explain
> this, and gave all my relevant info, they turned around and asked me for
> the details of the "problem" and for my license number, etc. (and
> this was
> all quoted back to me at the bottom of their email, so they
> already had it
> all). Great support, eh?
>
> Anyway, "ports open" are ports open as far as I am concerned. I switched
> over to ZoneAlarm and I've been fairly happy with it since, although it
> does cause some Windows machines to suddenly freeze without warning,
> needing a cold boot. It happens to me in DOS sessions (compiling, running
> large programs, etc.). Hopefully subsequent versions will take
> care of that
> problem. And the ZoneAlarm folks are willing to deal with their
> "customers", unlike the BID folks.
>
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