Ryan, I've used blackice with few problems for the past year, but lately every time i connect my blackice engin stops, and I can't get it to restart....now I use tiny personal firewall...try that. [I've also heard about buffer overflows, and exploits with blackice lately? Is that true?]
There is little conflict with sympatico highspeed and tiny though.
I know what you mean about people trying to get in....there was a new page of hack attempts everyday when i checked blackice....most were using rogers cable, or bell highspeed from the toronto area.....