My wife has been running BlackIce on her computer (Windows) and about a month ago she started having troubles. CD burn errors, slow copying of files and general system slowdown. I checked the performance graph in Task Manager and the CPU usage was spiking from a few percent to 50%, up and down like a yoyo when the system was idle. I narrowed the culprit down to the firewall, BlackIce. When I disabled it's services and removed it from the startup folder everything was normal again. I've discovered that she can still use it although if the GUI is loaded (which puts an icon in the system tray) the spiking returns. Right-click on the icon and choose 'exit' and the spiking stops (although the BlackIce services are still running and hence the firewall is fully functional). Now a month later if you open the GUI the CPU usage starts spiking from a couple % up to 90%. It's getting worse.ISS (who produce BlackIce) tout themselves as the world's greatest security experts but this program (at least the GUI part of it which is minimal anyway) is behaving like a badly written piece of sh|t.Anyone got any ideas what is wrong? Or suggestions for a better firewall?I won't touch Norton junk (too intrusive, registry bloat etc.) and I had trouble with Zone Alarm years ago on Win98. When I uninstalled it, it trashed the registry on the way out.Thanks for any adviceArnie

on 02 Jan 2007, something possessed Arnie to write:You can Try Kerio Personal Firewall. It says it's Trial-ware, but after the 30 days is up, you just lose some web-content filtering stuff (adblocking, which I never really had to use anyway). It allows you to set rules based not only on how programs access the Internet, but also allows you to set custom rules for ports to block and leave open as well, should you ever want/need to block or allow a certain port range. It also can monitor your PC for changed programs, and alert you when a program is trying to access another program on your PC (i.e. when you click on a mailto link in your web-browser, the web browser will need to communicate with some program on your PC). You can, of course, turn this option off if you like.Well, I hope you find something out there that will suite your needs. Good luck.Regards,Will

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BlackIce firewall from ISS - Is it a POS?

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Arnie 19 years ago

Tony wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@TheDeli.Sandwich:

Heya Tony, datsa baloney widda pickles tooah mate.

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Arnie 19 years ago

Tony wrote in news:459CC2B8.EEC89810 @TheDeli.Sandwich:

Heya Tony. You a only gotta aska mate. Whereza diss fosi punk live? Fosi wid the F***in fishes. Now make a my fuckina sanwidge anna no more a your fresha f***in baloney. I lika mine a tough anna chewy.

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Death9 19 years ago

You need to go back and look at the history of ZA that you're using as it's no piece of cake.

And about your god Gibson that you worship and Leatktest, here is a little tip for you.

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All the old boy did was load your computer up with a lot of snake-oil trying to protect *you* from *you*.

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