Security / networking guys - how full of shit is GRC?

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On their shields-up testing, they have a portion called "unsolicited packets" which they define as
Unsolicited Packets: PASSED — No Internet packets of any sort were received from your system as a side-effect of our attempts to elicit some response from any of the ports listed above. Some questionable personal security systems expose their users by attempting to "counter-probe the prober", thus revealing themselves. But your system remained wisely silent. (Except for the fact that not all of its ports are completely stealthed as shown below.)
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What "questionable" systems counterprobe? Wtf is he talking about? I mean, I've never heard of an IDS/IPS doing that....
 
i used to run blackice back in the day. There was an exploit that would corrupt your data if somebody sent you a malformed packet

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Scud said:
True but if you were cool you had to run it.
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I guess I was cool for 24 hours. Was so sick of configuring it I removed it. The firewall built in XP and my router were plenty good enough back then and plenty good for what I do at home now.
 
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