LockDown Review
From: www.sharewarejunkies.com

Type of Program: Anti Hacker/Trojan
Supported Platforms: Win 95/98/2000/NT
Company Name: LockDown Corp.
Version: 4.0
Price: $99
Installed Size: 2mb

I thought long and hard about reviewing this because
I already had an excellent Anti Hacker program and I
was reluctant to uninstall that in order to run LockDown
2000. However being a brave chappie I said "Knickers to it,
I'll give it ago". My fears were unfounded.

LockDown really secures your computer against hackers.
It also includes a Trojan scanner in case you are foolish
enough to say, open e-mail attachments without checking
them first. The Trojan scanner can be set to scan in the
background, constantly checking for the little devils.
LockDown uses a generic engine that scans the registry,
win.ini, sys.ini, config.sys and autoexec.bat for any changes
and trust me it works. If you install a new program LockDown
2000 will alert you of the change audibly and pop up a window
to show you exactly what changes have been made whilst giving
you the opportunity to undo the change or keep it. If you just
ran a game or a small utility, and it installed a Trojan
program that starts up every time you start up windows, it
would be detected. There is also a manual Trojan detection
scanner.

All excellent so far but what you really want is to stop the
hacker getting in and yes LockDown does that effectively.
As the rule of Murphys' Law would have it I have suffered
no attacks over the past few days so there I was praying for
a hacker attack and nothing, perhaps they knew I had LockDown
2000 and it wasn't worth trying. No problem, there are sites
where you can test your computers' security. The one I used
was http://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2. This site simulates
hacker attacks and posts results immediately with advice.

(NOTE From LockDown Corp.: HTTP://www.onlinescanner.com
is a new online scanner with more options and tests then
the above site.)

Before I give you the results let me tell you that with my
usual anti hacker program you have to go through a bit of
a long winded process of doing Whois, trace route, translating
the log file and finally e-mailing the hackers ISP. It means
opening, running, closing and copying and pasting from several
programs. OK back to the results, I started the security test
and LockDown immediately sprang into action. Off went the
siren, up popped a window telling me what was happening and an
instant traceroute was done and a log created. This is what
you get in the log

[09/12/1999 01:08:47] Incoming nuke attempt from IP Address:
207.71.92.221

[09/12/1999 01:08:47] WinNuke Attempt on Port 139
Intercepted by LockDown.

[09/12/1999 01:08:47] Log auto-saved to: 12091999.LOG

[09/12/1999 01:08:47] Attempting to trace hacker's connection...
Please stand by...

[09/12/1999 01:08:48] =[Trace Route]=

[09/12/1999 01:08:48] 09/12/1999 01:08:48-[From 207.71.92.221]-

[09/12/1999 01:08:53] => internet-gw-fe0.screaming.net

[09/12/1999 01:08:53] => via.nyc2.verio.net

[09/12/1999 01:08:53] => ord2.ord0.verio.net

[09/12/1999 01:08:53] => sea3.pao6.verio.net

[09/12/1999 01:08:53] => shieldsup.grc.com

[09/12/1999 01:08:53] ============================

Brilliant!! You'll notice the whole process from attack
to traceroute result only took 6 seconds. Now you can use
LockDowns' built in Whois facility (with a choice of
Whois servers) and get the hackers ISP, e-mail address and
the e-mail address of the ISPs ISP and send off a copy of
the log to them which should result in action being taken..
The test result reported triumphantly that Port 139 was open
and then had to rather sheepishly admit it couldn't get in.
There is also a built in manual Traceroute facility should
you wish to use it.

Other features include Update, Disconnect options, IP filter
options and level of Hacker Detection options.
I liked the option to detect attempts to crash ICQ as I am
a regular ICQ user. I would suggest you visit the LockDown
2000 site at http://www.lockdowncorp.com for detailed
descriptions of the above options as it would take me far too
long here.

This is a "must have" program for your own security and the
chance to get some of these pathetic people off the net. If
you don't get this program you'll only have yourself to blame
the next time you have to do a complete reformat.

Performance: * * * * * (FIVE STARS)
User Friendly: * * * * * (FIVE STARS)
Cost: (Considering the protection offered) * * * * * (FIVE STARS)
Ease of Installation: * * * * * (FIVE STARS)
Support: * * * * * (FIVE STARS)
Reviewed by Simon Baillie