BlackIce firewall from ISS - Is it a POS?

Arnie · 2007-01-02T11:41:19+00:00

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

Jan 02, 2007 22 Replies

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Arnie 19 years ago

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