| Being told that someone is scanning my ports as and when it happens doesn't do much for me, except steal the focus from whatever program I am working in and consign my keystrokes to a bottomless pit. There's no useful action I can take in response to the alert - that's Bullguard's job!
It does it very well.
I just wish it would do it quietly and unobtrusively without jumping up like an attention-starved 4 year old, "Look what I did!" and then 10 minutes later "Look what I'm not doing any more!"
When port-scans overlap I feel like a kindergarten teacher  .
Today, more than five minutes after I disconnected my broadband connection, Bullguard alerted me that a ban had elapsed, causing the high-speed action game I was playing to minimize itself at a critical moment. "Game over, man!"
Can anyone explain why these alerts are compulsory? Do they serve as anything but a reminder that Bullguard is working? If not, why not tell us we've been scanned at Windows shut-down and point us to the security log? (And where is that? Bullguard doesn't say.)
For the Bullguard developers, here's an  - why not make alerts optional? I would probably find them less annoying if knew a way to turn them off without turning off Bullguard firewall protection. Oh, another ! How about checking to see if the connection is still active before butting in?
Bullguard does seem to be the best... but it's not perfect yet!
Dave
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