People get trained like monkeys to agree with dialog boxes without paying attention to them. It is our automation and added intelligence that has led to BlackICE being the most popular personal firewall in corporate environments. Corporation managers go through extensive analysis of these things and understand the difference in technology. Most consumers buy personal firewalls because they believe they can identify hackers and stop the identified activities. They are quite surprised to learn that their personal firewall cannot differentiate hackers from normal activity.
Corporations have an even worse problem.
I manage several servers, and use it routinely on them. Of course folks are going to threaten if someone exposes them. The fact that BlackICE can't do this is testament to the uselessness of this product and the absolute crap they have come up with in their official response. On a side note, Gibson isn't the only one to have slated BlackICE, several magazines have noted a particular lack of BlackICE doing anything useful when compared to other Personal firewalls. If you want daily updates on news, enter your email address below, then click the 'Join List' button.