can somebody please help me. i have black ice firewall i nstalled along with norton's anti virus running windows 98se. even with running the latest update of black ice i keep getting probed by bt internet, even though i have blocked them forever i still keep getting a probe from them. i have tryed closing all open ports, but it seems bt have found same that are still open.

Don't worry, black ice defender is doing it's job - the world and his mother can probe you if they can detect your ip address, black ice is doing the right thing in letting you know that you're being probed - but the main thing is it's not making any response to the probe - so as far as bt are concerned you don't exist at that address and no ports are available. If you're worried about black ice's capability go to this address;

http://grc.com/


if it shows you have any open or vunerable ports, then I suggest you use Zone Alarm, which free and very good, or Norton Personal FireWall which isn't free and is also very good.

:tup:

Of course if you want to know why you should be worried about Blackice then you should go to another page at GRC http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm

Originally posted by Demo
Of course if you want to know why you should be worried about Blackice then you should go to another page at GRC http://grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm


Yeah Demo, I stopped using BlackIce after reading that report at GRC on it.

Agree with you 100% about Zone Alarm, sadly a lot of people think that because it's free it can't be any good. When in reality it's the best IMHO.

I agree. I would say ZoneAlarm is the best!!! But for some real testing of your system I would try

:hdspin::round::hdspin:DSL Report Shield probe. (http://www.dslreports.com/scan) At best Shields Up test will give you about 14 hits on za but dsl will give 500 hits and you can do one by e-mail which I haven't tried yet. Best part it's free.