Evil Port Monitors. I can't think of a better label for the large assortment of junk that's masquerading as something that will protect and notify you of dangerous intrusion attempts .
Evil is what they are.
A well-meaning friend suggested that perhaps I was being too harsh. I thanked her for the suggestion. She was right that they are indeed technologically challenged . . . These things are deliberately deceptive which makes them ethically challenged in my book. But many companies are leveraging customer ignorance and trading on hype.