Kerio Personal Firewall 4.0.0 beta

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Released yesterday.
http://www.kerio.com/beta_section.html

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Version 4.0.0 RC1 - August 8, 2003

New features in version 4.0
enhanced packet filter - define unlimited number of protocols, services,
address groups, time intervals, etc.
firewall can be configured by simply permitting or denying communication to
applications - suitable for beginners and less experienced users who do not
want to use the advanced packet filter
Intrusion Detection System
System Security - applications on the desktop protected against being
rewritten, modified or misused by other applications, etc.
HTTP (web) content filtering - blocking of ads, popup windows, scripts etc.
( for experimental use only )
new status reports in the administration Window - traffic chart,
connections, etc.
many enhancements in performance and load on the memory, especially in the
kernel part of the engine
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Is there anyone testing it?
Comments are appreciated.

 

[dkg_ctc]

Released yesterday.
http://www.kerio.com/beta_section.html

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Version 4.0.0 RC1 - August 8, 2003 *snip*
Is there anyone testing it?
Comments are appreciated.

I installed it yesterday, and only ran into two issues.

1.) By default, all cookies are blocked by Kerio. It took me awhile
to figure this out, and I only did so after pulling out much of my
hair.
2.) Specifying port ranges to block/allow doesn't seem to work. You
have to specify each port manually.

 

[Mick]

Hello dkg_ctc,
You wrote on 9 Aug 2003 14:54:01 GMT:

I installed it yesterday, and only ran into two issues.

1.) By default, all cookies are blocked by Kerio. It took me awhile
to figure this out, and I only did so after pulling out much of my
hair.

A flaw perhaps... ;-)

 

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Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:52:41 +1000
Mick ha scritto:

I installed the previous beta last week and had a terrible time removing it. It
looked great but kept crashing (which was later identified in the forum as a bug
in that beta version). If you do end up removing it, make sure it removes
fwdrv.vxd from your static VxD list (msconfig -> Static VxDs) or you will have
problems. Once they have got a stable release going (other than vers 2.x), I
might reconsider re-installing it as it is getting better with every new release
especially in web filtering etc but right now I am happy with Sygate and my PAC
file.

Then I'll keep this 2.1.5 version: in addition I'm not so expert to be a
beta tester...
Thank you both, Mick and dkg_ctc, for your feedback.