BlackIce Freebie!

[TonyT]

OK, for all you guys too cheap to shell out 4o bucks for the registered version of Black Ice Defender you can get a 45 day scaled down trial from CNET/Download.com.

Description
BlackICE Basic is an evaluation version of BlackICE Defender, the award-winning intrusion detection system. It scans your Internet connection looking for hacker activity, much like antivirus programs scan your hard disk looking for viruses. BlackICE Basic will identify the type of attack and the identity of the hacker so you can begin to understand what security risks are lurking on the Internet. BlackICE Basic will not affect your PC or Internet experience. This utility does not provide any of the active countermeasures to attacks that BlackICE Defender provides; that is, there is no blocking of attacks or malicious activity. It is only an advisory tool.


http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-10105-100-1552373.html?tag=st.dl.10000_103_1.lst.titledetail

[Oskar]

Yeah, thats true, but the problem with the trial is that it doesnt protect you. All it does is tells you that you are being scanned and there is no way to stop it. Useful to see if its a good program but as sercurity, the trial is useless.

[TonyT]

Yeah, that's true, but it'll make a believer outa a non-believer! And the BID website says there is no trial version of BID,& doesn't provide a link to the older demo version.