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57 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but only HALF of the solution, April 28, 2002

By	Jose David Trejo "Trejo" (the Nation's Capital) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I must say that this is a great intrusion and informative tool, but please do NOT confuse this program with a firewall.

The intent of this program is to explain attacks or attempts on your pc. This is especially good for admins at small businesses and such.

The difference between this and a firewall, such as Zonealarm for example, is that the firewall BLOCKS all incoming connections that are NOT AUTHORIZED, regardless of the content. This program is content based, analyzing data, leaving it vulnerable to some malicious attacks.Zone alarm is a great firewall, but its logging abilities pale in compaison to BlackICE. THat is why the ideal situation has you running BlackICE and a firewall.

The ideal use of such a program is paired with a firewall.

I do not mean to put this program down at all. It is a fine program, and is a great add on for less technical individuals or even higher ones who need need to catalogue/review attacks on their pc/server at a moments notice.

Fine software in my opinion.

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31 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Many Biased Opinions, August 13, 2003

By A Customer

I've used Blackice for a long time and I'm very satisfied. So many people get confused with the older versions of this software and the latest (3.6) and say that it can't filter outbound traffic. The latest version does do this very well. I've tried every internet firewall test i could find and blackice passed all of them 100%, including gibson research corporation's shields up! and leaktest. I did have to manually tweak the config file to get the thing to block ICMP pings, but it was easy. I especially like the interface, which is straightforward and doesn't use any flashy graphics to look good, it's just a piece of software that sits there and does its job.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Peace of Mind., April 15, 2002

By	Warren Alexander (Las Vegas, Nevada USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have tried many anti-Virus programs, and with the proliferation of "Hackers: and other undesirables on the Internet, I wanted something that really worked.

Black Ice is the answer, you can set the level of protection you want, you get a history of attempts to get into your computer, and it is an all around good program.

It is not an anti-Virus, it is a intrusion protector, the people who sent you the spam never know what happened to the message they sent to you it just disappears. Something hard to find today a product that does what it says it will do.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 stars Too many things get thru. I'm going back to a different firewall.
I had Mcafee security suite, FREE, through my comcast provider.

I used Black ice years ago and thought I would try it again, after seeing a review on it... Read more

Published on December 2, 2005 by DISenchanted

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to use, excellent software
I've owned and used BlackIce for over 7 years now. In all it's upgrades, it has been a non-intrusive, easy to use and effective software product. Read more

Published on May 30, 2004

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad Investment
This Software is not worth the money or the trouble. I had problems since day one when I installed this piece of junk. Read more

Published on October 17, 2003 by F. Garcia

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware this product!
I recently purchased this product. It did not function. repeated e-mails to the manufacturer got no response. Purchase at your own risk.

Published on October 10, 2003

1.0 out of 5 stars I may not be fair to this device but....
I couldn't install it simply because it promised me in the ad on Amazon that it would work with Windows 95, which hardly anything else will do. Read more

Published on October 30, 2002

3.0 out of 5 stars has strange features
The product actually has many excelent features that will make it come out of the crowd

Published on May 24, 2002 by Santhosh Kumar.R

1.0 out of 5 stars Garbage -- The worst software I have ever purchased
Save yourself a lot of headaches and look for other software packages to secure your computer. BlackICE is the worst software I have ever purchased: buggy, horrible support,... Read more

Published on May 6, 2002

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