Kerio Technologies' Personal Firewall is al een aantal jaar een veel gebruikte vuurmuur die bekend staat om zowel goede beveiliging als een eenvoudige installatie. De software is gratis beschikbaar voor particulieren, bedrijven moeten een licentie aanschaffen. Op Kerio's website troffen wij een nieuwe versie van de Personal Firewall aan, 4.0.10 genummerd. Deze release volgt slechts een dag na de vorige, 4.0.9. We vatten de samenvattingen van deze laatste twee versies even samen:
4.0.10 - December 12, 20034.0.9 - December 11, 2003
- fixed GUI crash when using certain combinations of color depth and font size
- fixed critical bug that caused KPF to fail in TCP stealth scans
- possibility to switch off learning mode in Network security (added "Any other application" rule)
- reset of statistics
- improved packet filter interface
- alert and logging can be enabled/disabled directly by clicking on the rule line
- hotkeys for moving rules (CTRL + up/down)
- multi selections for removal and changing the positions of the rules
- edited rule remains selected after editing
- enabling/disabling network traffic is logged into the Network log
- user can disable remote administration. KPF port 44334 can be stealthed.
- added McAfee VirusScan 7 and McAfee Personal Firewall 4 detection. KPF crashed inside McAfee's cslsp.dll if its installed. Therefore KPF popup filter is disabled in this case.
- filter rules are also applied for packets directed to unopened ports. In this case, if no rule matches, packet is dropped. It is now possible to specify rule for unopened port to let Windows generate "Port unreachable" ICMP reply (e.g. ident port (113) to allow proper work of ident daemon).
- when popup hotkey is switched off and on again, it actually works
- network/system rule couldn't be created when application path contains apostrophe
- fixed gui layout when using large fonts
- fixed update checker and product registration when using proxy
- update download canceling works properly
- fixed bugs that prevented Windows XP remote desktop to work properly
- fixed nested IP address groups
- fixed Hotmail natively in Outlook Express