[QUOTE]Originally posted by larryjs
[B]Go to http://www.grc.com to see how good Black ice works. It totally sucks. use Zonealarm.

People really need to stop taking ever thing that Steve Gibson says as the only truth. His write up on BlackIce was very poor. Of course it isn’t going to stop a program from "calling home" it was never designed to. He loaded it on a box that was already infected with a trojan and then claimed BlackIce didnt work. I personaly feel that the man has no right to give anyone security advice.

Both ZoneAlarm and BlackIce are good products, ZoneAlarm is free however you do have to pay for the Pro version.