RE: FW: BlackIce Defender???

["Noller, Gregory" <Noller2G () kochind com>]

I have machine on rr.com cable service at home running BOF, BlackIce
Defender, and @Guard (recently acquired by Norton/Symantec).

I get alerted every day, and every night, to port scans, BackOrifice probes,
and pcAnywhere probes by all three.  It's constant, and it's usually pretty
close to me geographically.  Probably on the same "segment" or whatever.

Funny though...put a snifferr on and the packets are all screwey:  24.94.x.x
is what ipconfig says my local machine address is, but the sniffer records
the local address to be a 10.x.x.x address.  Weird.

Anyway...I find @Guard to be more configureable, but "harder" to use (wife
hates it).  Black Ice has only four positions so wife likes it (but she
turns it off to establish a NetMeeting video call - then forgets to turn it
back on) and I dislike it's lack of granularity and poor logging.

Greg Noller
Wichita




On Tuesday,October 26,1999 2:49 PM, Rick Smith
[SMTP:rick_smith () securecomputing com] wrote:
> At 02:27 PM 10/26/99 -0500, R. DuFresne wrote:
> > I musty be really confused, backofficer is a firewall?  I thought it was
> > merely a port listener, comprable to netcat or nukenabber, but hardly a
> > fully functional firewall utility of any sort...
>
> Point taken. I think there's something really smart about combining a port
> listener with a personal firewall. Maybe it's too geeky for the masses,
but
> I like the notion of combining the otherwise silent protection of port
> blocking with the feedback of a port listener. If Black Ice did the right
> thing with the GUI, it may well be a winner.
>
> What kinds of experiences have people had with "personal firewalls?"
> Personally I've generally either lived behind a hairy chested corporate
> 'wall or I've done without at home.
>
>
> Rick.
> smith () securecomputing com
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