A "NetFilter" Next?

Malicious hackers and Windows unsafe networking are something we need to defend against. So my
response was the creation of ShieldsUP!, then working to raise the level of awareness of the need
for good personal firewalls. The LeakTest utility was the most recent step in that quest, and the
future NanoProbe and GENESIS developments will advance ShieldsUP! to the next level. This will
include the long-awaited HyperSpeed Port Scanner which has not been forgotten or abandoned. It
will be part of the next release of ShieldsUP! The Assimilator project will evolve along with the next-
generation of ShieldsUP!!, illuminating the "stress-response" of personal routers and hardware
security solutions.

Spyware vendors caught my eye next. The free OptOut utility was the first result, followed by the
well-publicized battle against Real Networks and the other spyware downloaders. I intended to —
and promised to — push OptOut further, but virtually every spyware company started behaving
much more responsibly (under the pending threat of an expanded OptOut), and the excellent, free,
Ad-Aware anti-spyware utility from LavaSoft appeared on the scene to pick up where OptOut left
off. People continued to ask for a complete anti-spyware utility from me (the version of OptOut I had
promised), but with the spyware companies behaving much better, and an effective free alternative
from Lavasoft, it made no sense for me to take the time to create a commercial utility which would
largely duplicate their efforts . . . and when doing so would prevent me from working on other non-
duplicative work . . . like the GRC NetFilter.

Filtering the Net — The ULTIMATE Solution.