LeakTest Program Version History
 v1.00 | Dec. 9, 2000 - Initial Release
First feature-complete release of LeakTest. |
| v1.01 | Dec. 13, 2000 - 'First Use' Pop-Up Help Dialog Added
A great number of people who were not reading the web-site information, or who were receiving pass-around copies of LeakTest, were confused about the program's intent. They were permitting the program to access the Internet, then becoming upset by LeakTest's claim to have "Penetrated" their firewall. So, I added a pop-up dialog to instructs first-time users to say "NO" when their firewall requests permission for LeakTest to use the Internet. After appearing once, LeakTest marks itself "read-only" to suppress repetitions of the pop-up help dialog. |
| v1.02 | Dec. 14, 2000 - Additional Operational Clarifications
 | Added another "first-time only" message explaining that LeakTest is more of a "research tool" than a "press and go" utility and asking them to please see the first two LeakTest web pages. |
| The "Expanded Help" mode will now be automatically active the first time (only) LeakTest is used. I'm hoping that they will then be more likely to read the explanations there. |
| Added clarifications to both of the "success" and "failure" result explanations. Again, hoping to reduce their confusion. |
| Updated the internal LeakTest web site URL. |
| v1.1 | Nov. 3, 2001 - BlackICE Defender "LeakTest Cheat" Update
An update to the BlackICE Defender personal firewall/IDS product added specific behavior to detect and block LeakTest. This would have been fine (terrific even) if the update would have also blocked any real Trojans. But NetworkICE only arranged to block LeakTest — apparently so that their users would believe that BID was now actually "leak proof", even though it hadn't actually changed significantly in that respect.
LeakTest was simply updated to use a different IP address (grc.com) and port (80) and it again penetrated through BID without any trouble. |
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