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BlackIce
From: Curt Wilson - Netw3 Consulting <netw3 () netw3 com>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 23:33:53 -0600
I've not used the corporate version of BlaceIce, but I'm running Black Ice Defender on my Win2k pro system, and it seems to catch a lot of hostile traffic, but sometimes is a little big vague in it's descriptive qualities. For instance, a SYN-FIN scan may be classified as an "OS fingerprint" when that may not be the case. Of course, you can dump your data into an app such as Ethereal for greater analysis, but it's still a "light" IDS/personal firewall in my opinion. It may certainly be good enough to get the job done. BTW I've not ran mine in "paranoid" mode so there may be more security with this setting. It's also got a nice auto update feature to keep things current. The granularity of attack criteria is not as detailed as I would like, but for the price, I think it's a great choice. Curt Wilson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | Curt R. Wilson * Netw3 Consulting * www.netw3.com | | Internet Security, Networking, PC tech, WWW hosting | | Netw3 Security Reading Room : www.netw3.com/documents.html | | Serving Southern Illinois locally and the world virtually | | netw3 () netw3 com 618-303-NET3 | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://www.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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