Kerio dropping personal & server firewalls...

R

REM

http://www.kerio.com/kerio.html


http://forums.kerio.com/index.php?t=msg&th=7040&start=0&S=87a76357fa565eb8998b4e93472fa6fb

KPF: End of Life December 31st 2005 [message #27272]

"Kerio Technologies has grown into a significant player in both
security and messaging markets. We have achieved many accolades, and
we have many satisfied customers all over the world.

Kerio now employs over one hundred people in our three offices
worldwide. We want to continue to deliver products that you enjoy to
use. We made a promise to give our customers the best products in
their category. And that means implementing some changes in our
product strategy.

During the second half of this year, Kerio will be discontinuing two
host-based security products from our portfolio – Kerio ServerFirewall
and Kerio Personal Firewall.

Kerio Personal Firewall will be discontinued as of December 31, 2005.
It will not be available for purchase after this date. Subscriptions
will not be renewed. Technical support will be provided to all
customers with valid subscriptions until the end of 2006.

Thank you for your support of Kerio."
 
B

Bill Day

http://www.kerio.com/kerio.html


http://forums.kerio.com/index.php?t=msg&th=7040&start=0&S=87a76357fa565eb8998b4e93472fa6fb y.

During the second half of this year, Kerio will be discontinuing two
host-based security products from our portfolio – Kerio ServerFirewall
and Kerio Personal Firewall.

Kerio Personal Firewall will be discontinued as of December 31, 2005.
It will not be available for purchase after this date. Subscriptions
will not be renewed. Technical support will be provided to all
customers with valid subscriptions until the end of 2006.
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oh, crap! More nuisance. If I understand this, it simply means they
won't develop or support it...It does NOT mean the current product, as
installed, will quit working. It DOES mean it's a good idea to begin
examining possible replecements for future reference.
 
R

REM

oh, crap! More nuisance. If I understand this, it simply means they
won't develop or support it...It does NOT mean the current product, as
installed, will quit working. It DOES mean it's a good idea to begin
examining possible replecements for future reference.
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That's what it sounds like to me. I'm still using v2.1.5 with the XP
firewall. I read on the site that this is NOT recommended, but it
seems to work fine. Maybe the newer versions have a problem?
 
B

Bill Day

oh, crap! More nuisance. If I understand this, it simply means they
won't develop or support it...It does NOT mean the current product, as
installed, will quit working. It DOES mean it's a good idea to begin
examining possible replecements for future reference.
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and it's interesting that they only released 4.2 in July. Since then,
there have been many reports of problems with all of the 4.X versions,
and many folks have reported going back to 2.15, which seems to be
pretty stable and reliable.

I'm guessing they 'upgraded' themselves into some serious problems
they just don't want to discuss, and have decided to get out of the
business, rather than struggle with fixes.
 
A

Art

This just mentions the server firewall, not the personal.

So it seems the web site isn't up to date then.

Recently, Sygate was sold to Symantec. So that's two popular
personal firewalls in a short time that are going the way of the dodo
bird.

Art

http://home.epix.net/~artnpeg
 
M

Mel

KPF: End of Life December 31st 2005 [message #27272]
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Loose 2 gain 1 back:

http://www.sensiveguard.com/

SensiveGuard checks every inbound and outbound network access for policy
compliance, suspends and warns on every access in real-time that is not
allowed or denied explicitly by policies. Security policies can be set
regarding program identities, network protocols, and remote network
address. Network address can be specified in a group (network zone).
Three address groups are created by default: any-remote group,
local-network group, and the Internet group. Customer address group can
be created to include any IP addresses or subnets.

SensiveGuard can protect files from being written, deleted, copied, and
read in real-time. By default, it suspends and warns on every write or
delete on executable files by any program with Internet connection. User
can add sensitive folders and files under protection that can not be
read, copied, written, or deleted by hackers remotely or spyware in the
background. File security policies can be set regarding program
identities, user initiation, folders and file types.
 
M

me

On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 09:46:22 -0500, REM wrote:

KPF: End of Life December 31st 2005 [message #27272]
Click to expand...
Loose 2 gain 1 back:

http://www.sensiveguard.com/

SensiveGuard checks every inbound and outbound network
access for policy compliance, suspends and warns on every
access in real-time that is not allowed or denied
explicitly by policies. Security policies can be set
regarding program identities, network protocols, and remote
network address. Network address can be specified in a
group (network zone). Three address groups are created by
default: any-remote group, local-network group, and the
Internet group. Customer address group can be created to
include any IP addresses or subnets.

SensiveGuard can protect files from being written, deleted,
copied, and read in real-time. By default, it suspends and
warns on every write or delete on executable files by any
program with Internet connection. User can add sensitive
folders and files under protection that can not be read,
copied, written, or deleted by hackers remotely or spyware
in the background. File security policies can be set
regarding program identities, user initiation, folders and
file types.
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Isn't it LAN only (vs. stand-alove PC)?

J
 
M

Mel

Isn't it LAN only (vs. stand-alove PC)?
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What make SensiveGuard different from other firewalls are:
- Protection of not only the network, but also sensitive system and
personal files.
- Intelligent detection of malicious operations from legitimate user
operations with local keyboard and mouse inputs.
- Powerful policies handling a wide range of security situations
regarding program identities, user initiation, network protocols,
network zones, file-types, and security actions of allow, deny and
suspend.
- Easy to use and learn. No user configuration is required. Default
policies will allow most common network and file accesses while new
policies can be created automatically upon user's operations.
- Comprehensive network and file access loggings separated into days.
Users can review and audit complete network and critical file access
for any given date, knowing exactly what happen to the network and
sensitive files.
 
M

Mutlley

Mel said:
What make SensiveGuard different from other firewalls are:
- Protection of not only the network, but also sensitive system and
personal files.
- Intelligent detection of malicious operations from legitimate user
operations with local keyboard and mouse inputs.
- Powerful policies handling a wide range of security situations
regarding program identities, user initiation, network protocols,
network zones, file-types, and security actions of allow, deny and
suspend.
- Easy to use and learn. No user configuration is required. Default
policies will allow most common network and file accesses while new
policies can be created automatically upon user's operations.
- Comprehensive network and file access loggings separated into days.
Users can review and audit complete network and critical file access
for any given date, knowing exactly what happen to the network and
sensitive files.
Click to expand...

I looked on the Kerio web site and they only mention dropping the
Server Firewall.

"September 1, 2005
Kerio ServerFirewall will be discontinued as of September 30, 2005.
Technical support and security updates will be provided to all
customers with valid or expired licenses until September 30, 2006."
 
J

Jan

On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 09:46:22 -0500, REM wrote:

KPF: End of Life December 31st 2005 [message #27272]
Click to expand...
Loose 2 gain 1 back:

http://www.sensiveguard.com/

SensiveGuard checks every inbound and outbound network access for policy
compliance, suspends and warns on every access in real-time that is not
allowed or denied explicitly by policies. Security policies can be set
regarding program identities, network protocols, and remote network
address. Network address can be specified in a group (network zone).
Three address groups are created by default: any-remote group,
local-network group, and the Internet group. Customer address group can
be created to include any IP addresses or subnets.

SensiveGuard can protect files from being written, deleted, copied, and
read in real-time. By default, it suspends and warns on every write or
delete on executable files by any program with Internet connection. User
can add sensitive folders and files under protection that can not be
read, copied, written, or deleted by hackers remotely or spyware in the
background. File security policies can be set regarding program
identities, user initiation, folders and file types.
Click to expand...
I have been using SensiveGuard for 3 days now and just uninstalled it. I
kept getting blue screen dumps after leaving the pc for awhile. I don't
know what the problem was.
 
R

Ray

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