Kerio 2.1.5 vs. Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0.15

[Rod]

After the recent posts about the vulnerabilities in Kerio 2.1.5 I decided
to download Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0.15.
Can anyone explain what are the differences between the two ?
Obviously Kerio is the successor of Tiny PF, but why should I prefer Kerio
over Tiny PF ?
TIA

 

[REM]

Rod <[email protected]> wrote:

After the recent posts about the vulnerabilities in Kerio 2.1.5 I decided
to download Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0.15.
Can anyone explain what are the differences between the two ?
Obviously Kerio is the successor of Tiny PF, but why should I prefer Kerio
over Tiny PF ?

I'm going to have to reread that thread. I got bits and pieces.

After being exploited three times in XP Pro running Kerio and Anti-Vir
I think I've finally got a handle on things. I also run the XP
firewall.

I use all critical updates.

I merged the reg file from here to disable a bunch of services I don't
need running:

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

I disabled activeX in Avant and in IE.

I am exploited, and I've been clean for 5 months now. I'm going to try
to be clean tomorrow...

 

[Nij]

After the recent posts about the vulnerabilities in Kerio 2.1.5 I
decided to download Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0.15.
Can anyone explain what are the differences between the two ?
Obviously Kerio is the successor of Tiny PF, but why should I prefer
Kerio over Tiny PF ?
TIA

They used to be made by the same people but TINY PF branched away from
Kerio. As it stand Tiny PF is lot more complex to use than Kerio. Kerio
2.1.5 is the best version of all the available Kerio versions (aside from
2.1.4).Much less complex and uses less resources than Tiny.

 

[Aaron]

I'm going to have to reread that thread. I got bits and pieces.

After being exploited three times in XP Pro running Kerio and Anti-Vir
I think I've finally got a handle on things. I also run the XP
firewall.

Exploited? Sounds serious. Any details?

 

[Rod]

They used to be made by the same people but TINY PF branched away from
Kerio. As it stand Tiny PF is lot more complex to use than Kerio.
Kerio 2.1.5 is the best version of all the available Kerio versions
(aside from 2.1.4).Much less complex and uses less resources than
Tiny.

I understood that, but like I said, I'm trying out TPF 2.0.15, which looks
about the same as Kerio 2.1.5 and it uses slightly less resources than
Kerio on my sytem. So I'm curious about the differences between those two,
and arguments why I should prefer Kerio over TPF.

 

[REM]

Aaron <[email protected]> wrote:

Exploited? Sounds serious. Any details?

I have had 3 worms installed. My kids use the machine, and I thought
it was locked down tight. The first was the MS mhtml vunerability. The
others I never determined exactly how they got in.

I seem to be safe now...

 

[Kerodo]

I understood that, but like I said, I'm trying out TPF 2.0.15, which looks
about the same as Kerio 2.1.5 and it uses slightly less resources than
Kerio on my sytem. So I'm curious about the differences between those two,
and arguments why I should prefer Kerio over TPF.

Rod, my guess would be that Tiny 2.x has the same fragmented packet
vulnerabilities as Kerio 2.x, but I don't really know for sure. Someone
would have to test it to find out.

 

[Rod]

Rod, my guess would be that Tiny 2.x has the same fragmented packet
vulnerabilities as Kerio 2.x, but I don't really know for sure.
Someone would have to test it to find out.

Thank you Kerodo, that's my guess to. I'm curious about other differences
to, I googled for a while but came up empty.

 

[Kerodo]

Thank you Kerodo, that's my guess to. I'm curious about other differences
to, I googled for a while but came up empty.

I'm not too sure about the differences. As far as I know, Kerio 2.x
picked up from where Tiny left off, so Kerio may have some improvements
and bug fixes since Tiny 2.x ended. If you had to choose between the
two, then Kerio 2.x would most likely be the better choice.

There are some people around who are familiar with both Tiny 2.x and
Kerio 2.x and know more of their history. Try asking your question
here, at this site below and see if you get some response. I think you
will...

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/kerio

 

[Rod]

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/kerio

Thank you, that's a very useful site.

 

[omega]

There was one thread there that seemed to at least start out to concern
the question of Kerio 2x v TPF 2x, but I wasn't able to really follow
it along to find any clear answers.

Thank you, that's a very useful site.

If you do end up starting a question there, and if you get any useful
bits, can you post them back here? (I don't like dealing with the web-
based message form for reading, but was interested in your query.)

 

[Rod]

There was one thread there that seemed to at least start out to concern
the question of Kerio 2x v TPF 2x, but I wasn't able to really follow
it along to find any clear answers.

I try to read that one to, and am still wondering if anyone could follow
it, there are a lot of subject changes in single threads on that forum.

If you do end up starting a question there, and if you get any useful
bits, can you post them back here? (I don't like dealing with the web-
based message form for reading, but was interested in your query.)

I would, if I could. I tried to sign up and still haven't heard from them.
My curiousity is decreasing, it's that laziness kicking in again.
The thing I'm more curious about know is the question if there's a safe
light-weight (or not-to-heavy-weight) freeware firewall out there.

 

[Kerodo]

The thing I'm more curious about know is the question if there's a safe
light-weight (or not-to-heavy-weight) freeware firewall out there.

If you like Kerio 2.x, you might also like Jetico Personal Firewall.
Very lightweight. Easy on ram and small executables, etc.

http://www.jetico.com/

Right now it's in beta mode, but it's fairly stable. Rules based like
Kerio, but even more powerful. It's free also at the moment, so you can
always use one of the current versions forever if you like. It may not
be free when they finally release it though. The interface is a little
complicated at first, but once you find your way around it's not bad.
Worth a look at any rate.

 

[omega]

If you like Kerio 2.x, you might also like Jetico Personal Firewall.
Very lightweight. Easy on ram and small executables, etc.

http://www.jetico.com/

Right now it's in beta mode, but it's fairly stable. Rules based like
Kerio, but even more powerful. It's free also at the moment, so you can
always use one of the current versions forever if you like. It may not
be free when they finally release it though. The interface is a little
complicated at first, but once you find your way around it's not bad.
Worth a look at any rate.

Thank you for the info.

 

[Rod]

If you like Kerio 2.x, you might also like Jetico Personal Firewall.
Very lightweight. Easy on ram and small executables, etc.

http://www.jetico.com/

Right now it's in beta mode, but it's fairly stable. Rules based like
Kerio, but even more powerful. It's free also at the moment, so you can
always use one of the current versions forever if you like. It may not
be free when they finally release it though. The interface is a little
complicated at first, but once you find your way around it's not bad.
Worth a look at any rate.

Thank you for that, I will try it out.

 

[Rod]

If you do end up starting a question there, and if you get any useful
bits, can you post them back here? (I don't like dealing with the web-
based message form for reading, but was interested in your query.)

One big difference I noticed was the fact that with TPF 2.0.15 I no longer
could get into my webmail through my browser (both hotmail and gmail).
So I switched back to Kerio 2.1.5.