# Zone Alarm question.  Blocked intrusions huge.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zone-alarm-question-blocked-intrusions-huge/220314>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 21, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zone-alarm-question-blocked-intrusions-huge/220314 "2003-12-21T15:25:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zone-alarm-question-blocked-intrusions-huge/220314/21 "2003-12-22T05:29:13Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Musicat \*  
> **I use Blackice Defender**

[That might not be a good idea](http://www.grc.com/lt/leaktest.htm) :

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> Eleven Months after the release of our first, simple, but effective and popular (4,340,641 downloads) LeakTest firewall testing utility, BlackICE Defender (BID) continues to “leak” — as defined by LeakTest. But a recent update to BID (version 2.9cai) was hiding this fact from its users by effectively cheating the LeakTest.
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> Rather than enhancing BlackICE Defender by adding the sort of application-level controls that are available even from many completely free personal firewalls, BID’s publisher, NetworkICE, apparently chose to prevent LeakTest’s intended operation by adding specific awareness to BID of LeakTest’s remote testing IP.

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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zone-alarm-question-blocked-intrusions-huge/220314/22 "2003-12-22T05:43:26Z")

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> \*Originally posted by yabob \*  
> \*\*As people reboot their infected machines it may go away. \*\*

Get real! We’re talking Microsoft OS’s here; of course they get rebooted. Probably every couple of days or so.

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zone-alarm-question-blocked-intrusions-huge/220314/23 "2003-12-22T15:02:49Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Early Out \*  
> And we had to walk to the computer room, 6 miles through the snow, without shoes…

Only 6 miles? And you had feet? :eek:

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