Agnitum heeft op zijn website een nieuwe versie van zijn firewallsoftware Outpost Firewall Pro geplaatst. Het gaat om versie 6.7 build 2957.446.0711 en vanaf deze pagina kan zowel een 32bit- als een 64bit-versie worden gedownload. Het programma houdt ongewenste indringers en spyware tegen, filtert op niet-gewenste content en heeft een ingebakken privacy-controller. De volledige lijst met veranderingen sinds versie 2.1 kan op deze pagina worden gevonden. In deze release is onder andere het anti-spyware-gedeelte verbeterd en is een installatieprobleem onder Windows 2000 verholpen. Voor de volledigheid geven we echter alle veranderingen sinds versie 6.5.5 build 2535.385.0692, de laatste release die in de Meuktracker behandeld is:
Outpost Firewall Pro 2009 (6.7 2957.446.0711)
What's new:The following issues are resolved (only significant ones are listed):
- Anti-Spyware engine improved
- Possible problems with installation on Windows 2000
Outpost Firewall Pro 2009 (6.7 2954.446.0710)
What's new:The following improvements are introduced:
- Windows 7 beta-support
- Anti-Spyware engine improved
The following issues are resolved (only significant ones are listed):
- Improved content filtering performance
- Issues with Heuristic analysis
- Issues with configuration after computer infection
- Self-protection exclusions list was not preserved under Windows Vista
- Issues after Windows Vista SP1 loading, including:
- Services were not started
- Strange windows behavior
- Slow startup
- Several most commonly reported crashes, including:
- Possible crash in case of insufficient memory;
- Possible crash while scrolling through the Host Protection components list
- Several most commonly reported freezes, including:
- Possible freeze on scrolling the applications list
- Possible freeze on UAC dialog display
- Some visual notifications could be displayed in Entertainment Mode
- Possible problems with ICS (packets could be blocked)
- Possible problems with drivers installation
- Possible compatibility issues with KAV/KIS
- High CPU load in case of working with Lingvo X3
- Hosts file modification could not sometimes be detected
- Adding Windows/System32 folder to exclusions did not work
- Rules for EMULE.EXE were not applied
- Issues while receiving mail using The Bat!
- Incredimail could crash on mail receiving
- Rawsocket rules did not work correctly
- Content filtering rules did not work for mtorrent.exe
- Port scanning false positives on detecting UDP packet to the closed port from DNS server
- Some printer functions did not work if Outpost was installed on a computer
- Outpost could cause GUI freeze under Windows Vista 64
- Internet Explorer could crash on trying to change site properties using Quick Tune plug-in
- No Quick Tune plug-in in Internet Explorer on x64 platforms
- Update settings did not work correctly
- Registry key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager] "BootExecute" was not protected
- Incompatibility with Jaws application
- Outpost service could not start with enabled UAC
- Windows Firewall could not sometimes be disabled after Outpost installation
- Incoming NetBIOS connections were blocked even if NetBIOS check box in LAN settings was selected
- By default content is not filtered for loopback address anymore
- Music could not be played from www.imeem.com with Outpost installed
- RPC DCOM attack could not be detected
- Outpost could not sometimes detect driver load
- Outpost could detect Norton Antivirus after its uninstallation
- Incoming connections could be successfully established in case of blocking policy
- Transit packets were blocked on attempt to open web pages on VMWare
- More minor issues
De volgende downloads zijn beschikbaar:Agnitum Firewall Pro 2009 6.7 build 2957.446.0711 (32bit)
Agnitum Firewall Pro 2009 6.7 build 2957.446.0711 (64bit)