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A recent BlackICE purchaser wrote to us:
"As someone who has recently purchased blackice defender, I was understandably worried by Steve's derogatory remarks
about the program and it's functioning. So I mailed them [ISS/NetworkICE] and asked for comment. I paste it here un-altered, f
or whoever may wish to read it."

For those who are interested, here is the reply this BID user reportedly received from the
anonymous "Trish M." at BlackICE Technical Support in reply to his concerns, followed by
the reply I sent back to him (non-anonymously):

BID's Official Response & My Reply


October 25, 2001
LeakTest and the Windows XP Built-In Firewall
The Windows XP built-in firewall:

The rate of LeakTest downloads jumped significantly on October 25th, 2001, presumably due to the release of Windows XP on
that date.

It is understandable that new Internet savvy users of Windows XP, who are aware of our work here at grc.com, would be curious to learn about their new system and its Internet defenses.

Just so you know, WinXP's built-in firewall does not attempt to manage or restrict outbound
connections at all. It appears to be a useful firewall for hiding the machine from the
Internet (it has "stealth mode" unsolicited packet handling), but you will still need to
use a good third-party personal firewall if you wish to manage and control outbound
connections from your system.

Introducing LeakTest

his site has been most well-known for its FREE ShieldsUP! Internet security test. Crucial
as it is to protect yourself from malicious hackers outside, those bad guys represent only
half of the threat. The Internet has proven to be an extremely fertile transportation
medium for all manner of nasty Trojan horse programs, rapidly proliferating viruses, and

privacy invading commercial spyware. As a result, it is no longer true that all of the
potential problems reside outside the computer.hfully test for LeakTest's outbound communications. As far as we know, BID
has no such
cpability. So it appears to have been designed merely to mislead and hide that truth from
ts usrs.
his IP address-specific blocking could have falsely lead BID's users into believing that
their updated BID firewall was now providing the sort of outbound blocking, protection, an
d awareness that LeakTest was designed to detect, test, and report. (And which all effective personal firewalls provide.)
lthough we would celebrate the addition of true outbound application-aware control and
blocking to BID, achieving that sort of protection is significantly more difficult ? and
certainly far more valuable to its users ? than blocking a single IP address at Gibson
Research Corp. in order to falsely appear to be doing more than they are.
eakTest Version 1.1:
Shortly after we learned of and confirmed this unfortunate decision on the part of
NetworkICE's developers, we updated the original LeakTest v1.0 to version 1.1 by simply presumably also could.
It is understandable that new Internet savvy users of Windows XP, who are aware of our work here at grc.com, would be curio
us to learn about their new system and its Internet defenses.
Just so you know, WnXP's built-in firewall does not attempt to manage or restrict outbound
connections at all. It appears to be a useful firewall for hiding the machine from the
as it is to protect yourself from malicious hackers outside, those bad guys represent only
half of the threat. The Internet has proven to be an extremely fertile transportation
medium for all manner of nasty Trojan horse programs, rapidly proliferating viruses, and
rivacy invading commercial spyware. As a result, it is no longer true that all of the