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New features in Jetico Personal Firewall v.2

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Changelog

Jetico Personal Firewall is unique rule based firewall on the market. Its open confuguration does not contain hidden rules and dependencies. You can inspect or modify every bit of configuration.

In addition to real-time statistics, Jetico Personal Firewall displays real-time rules activity information. Logging subsystem allows user to trace down any firewall event.

Jetico Personal Firewall uses multiple level filtering scheme to provide highest protection level. Jetico Personal Firewall outperformed Zone Alarm, Outpost and other well known products in various tests:

Matousec.com firewall test results with emphasis on HIPS.
Firewallleaktester.com independent personal firewall test results.

Jetico Personal Firewall works on 32bit and x64 Windows Vista/XP/2003 Server/2000

New features in Jetico Personal Firewall v.2

System-related

Jetico Personal Firewall v2 runs as privileged Windows service. It can protect computer before user logon.
Native support for Windows XP Fast User Switching and Terminal Services.
Jetico Personal Firewall supports Access Control Lists for all main functions. Administrator can configure ACL to grant access to particular firewall functions for any user or group.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 Security Center support.

Jetico Personal Firewall

User interface

Improved rule editing interface.
New popup message. The new look for popup dialog is presented. Popup message text and rule creation options can be modified.
Firewall variables formerly controlled by Configuration Wizard, are integrated into main application window.
Language file support for easy localization. All translatable words and phrases are taken from single UTF-8 encoded text file.

Configuration

New XML-based open configuration file format. Detailed documentation is available upon request.
The new version maintains single protected firewall configuration for all users.
Simplified controls for configuration.
New hash handling scheme. Separate table for hash checking.
Each firewall filtering layer has own root table.
New automatic variables (per-connection) for local connections are supported.

Firewall rules

Rules support lists of parameters where possible.
IP rules support IP address ranges.
Low level protocol rules support filtering by MAC address.
Application rules have events for direct and indirect access to network. Indirect access details are also available.
New module for hash checking created.
Application, Process attack and Hash checking rules support wildcards in file paths.

Logging subsystem

Log entries can be associated with rule.
Firewall can create rule based on log information.
New WELF-compatible text log format. WELF is supported by many log analyzers.
Improved log control.

Translations

Jetico Personal Firewall supports easy localization. At the moment it is translated to the following languages:

Language Software Interface Translator Help File Translator
English Jetico, Inc. Jetico, Inc.
Brasilian Portugese MCHAL —
Chinese Simplified 风中决斗(fzjd) —
Chinese Traditional 席克資訊有限公司 (Steven Nien) —
Dutch Jochem —
French Patrick Leloup —
German Stefan Beinroth, Martin Zoller —
Italian Keltoi and Tom —
Japanese Dobry Den —
Russian Jetico, Inc. —
Spanish Senpai —
Turkish Mehmet Kalyon —

If you want to make Jetico Personal Firewall v.2 speaking your native language and more useful for your compatriots, please contact our Technical Support: support@jetico.com

Changelog

06-November-2008 | v.2.0.2.7 update
Italian translation created by Keltoi and Tom.
Japanese translation updated.
03-October-2008 | v.2.0.2.7
Setup program improved.
Uninstall program improved.
New "critical system object modification" process attack event introduced to control access to critical system configuration objects.
System crash caused by hook detector fixed.
25-August-2008 | v.2.0.2.6
Stefan Beinroth and Martin Zoller created German language file.
Memory leak in bcftdi.sys fixed.
Random crash in bcftdi.sys fixed.
User interface adjusted for right-to-left reading order.
Incomplete group export bug fixed.
ARP packet parameter logging added.
Log tab selection style restored.
06-August-2008 | v.2.0.2.5
"Add parameter to group" option added to popup dialog.
Kernel exception on multicore systems during fast user switch fixed.
Setup program fixed.
30-June-2008 | v.2.0.2.4
Firewall now creates backups prior to updating configuration file.
More accurate "indirect access to network" detection.
"Access to network" for large .exe files fixed.
Truncated path in "access to network" events fixed.
Kernel exception on fast user switch fixed.
Protocol list in low level protocol module fixed.
26-May-2008 | v.2.0.2.3.
Problem with Firefox access to network fixed.
Windows 2000 protection improved.
20-May-2008 | v.2.0.2.2.
Inter-process communication monitoring improved on Vista systems.
Executable image hash is now checked on-demand for large files.
Bug in Security Center detection on Windows XP SP3 fixed.
Import/Export and Language menu item id collision fixed.
Brasilian, Russian and Turkish language files updated.
05-May-2008 | v.2.0.2.1.
Configuration Import/Export added. Now Jetico Personal Firewall can import/export individual tables or security policies.
New process attack evens added:
  • "control process" produced when an application requests access rights that will allow it to terminate suspend or crash another application;
  • "control system services" produced when an application requests access to Service Control Manager.
By monitoring these events Jetico Personal Firewall can effectively defeat attacks modeled by kill, crash, suspend and system shutdown simulator tests.
Default configuration template updated.
System crash on logging fragmented packets fixed.
Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 random crash fixed.
Group management code improved.
Group contents are displayed in rule parameter editors (tooltips).
Minor group tab user interface bugs fixed.
Table names in actions list are sorted alphabetically.
Wrong registry key and application path report in Process attack popup dialog fixed.
Chinese Traditional translation provided by Steven Nien.
Turkish translation provided by Mehmet Kalyon.
Authors updated language files to reflect the latest user interface changes.
18-February-2008 | v.2.0.1.5.
Short filenames problem fixed.
"Clone table" problem fixed.
Dutch translation updated.
Seamonkey detection added.
01-February-2008 | v.2.0.1.4.
Port scanning problems fixed.
Hangup while updating DNS cache fixed.
Hangup after security policy switching fixed.
Spanish translation contributed by Senpai.
Skype detection updated.
24-January-2008 | v.2.0.1.3.
System crash after group update fixed.
Configuration Wizard UI is now correctly translated during setup.
Dutch translation contributed by Jochem.
11-December-2007 | v.2.0.1.2.
Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 support.
Jetico Personal Firewall v.1 hook detector added to 32-bit version.
Sending message to another application detected. "Breakout" tests passed.
ARP stateful filter parameters can be changed via registry now.
Problems with network connections after installation on Vista systems fixed.
Hook detector hangup on SMP Vista systems fixed.
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT blue screen on Vista systems fixed.
Memory leak during uninstallation on Vista systems fixed.
Stability at high load improved.
Policy combobox behavior fixed.
Configuration template updated.
25-October-2007 | v.2.0.0.37.
Stateful ARP rule now protects from ARP DoS attack.
Low level protocol rule can check ARP opcode, source and destination IP addresses now.
License checking in setup program fixed.
Policy combobox update problem fixed.
Configuration Wizard can now detect files in %SystemRoot%\System32 directory on 64-bit systems.
Default configuration template updated: Avant, Maxthon, Netscape 9, Safari browsers detected; Vista UAC application detected; Added Windows components that require indirect access to network; "Network Time Protocol client" template fixed.
12-October-2007 | v.2.0.0.36.
Memory leak in bcftdi.sys driver fixed.
Domain names are printed in configuration tables is available.
20-September-2007 | v.2.0.0.35.
System crash caused by bc_tdi_f.sys driver under heavy load fixed.
Application adding via "..."(Browse) problem in rule editor on Vista fixed.
Firewall shutdown now allowed with expired license.
Configuration Wizard "Next >" button behavior fixed.
Default configuration template updates: Rule for Ximeta NDAS devices added (off by default); "Network Time Protocol client" application template table added; "Allow everything" application template table added
22-August-2007 | v.2.0.0.34.
Stateful inspection for ARP protocol added.
Monitoring of direct access to memory, OLE/COM communications, process code/memory modifications disabled in 64-bit versions to prevent conflict with Kernel Patch Protection after Windows Update KB932596.
Clone/Delete policy, Clone table, Expand/Collapse commands added to the policy tree context menu.
Empty values handling fixed in rule parameter editors.
Column order save/restore bug fixed.
French translation provided by Patrick Leloup.
Default configuration template updates: Explorer.exe is allowed to access the network; Stateful ARP enabled to prevent ARP poisoning; "Bypass" rule fixed in the "Access to network" table.
31-May-2007 | v.2.0.0.33.
System crash on high load fixed.
25-May-2007 | v.2.0.0.32.
Firewall freezing on switching security policy fixed.
Setup program registartion fixed.
JPF server memory usage reduced.
Russian translation updated.
22-May-2007 | v.2.0.0.31.
Log subsystem performance improved.
Log race conditions fixed.
Commercial license expiration bug fixed.
Opera 9.20 and Skype detection improved.
'About' dialog text fixed.
Traffic summary labels corrected.
23-April-2007 | v.2.0.0.30.
Rule update after group values change fixed.
Rule reordering for copy/move operations fixed.
Application rule parameters (local port, remote address) order corrected.
Hash parameter handling bug fixed.
Event log messages improved.
IP rule parameters are displayed in the 'Misc' column.
Configuration Wizard import function fixed.
Chinese (simplified) translation contributed by Gao Xue Feng.
13-April-2007 | v.2.0.0.29 Release Candidate.
Extra memory usage issue fixed.
JPF.exe startup problems fixed.
Domain names added to IP addresses in Log tab and Popup dialog.
Configuration template updated. New templates: Skype, ICQ (ICQ, ICQ Lite, Miranda, Trillian, Qip), IRC (mIrc, Miranda, Trillian), Windows Messenger, Windows Media Player, Direct Connect (DC++), BitTorrent (uTorrent)
Language file and translations updated.
9-April-2007 | v.2.0.0.28 Beta.
System crash on installing global hook fixed.
Basic SYN flood protection added to stateful rules.
License expiration warnings added.
Brasilian Portugese translation contributed by Milton Chaves de Almeida.
Language file (langfile.txt) updated.
2-April-2007 | v.2.0.0.27 Beta.
"Critical registry modification" process attack event added.
DLL injection detection code improved.
Crash on cancelling new rule creation fixed.
Setup program prepared for localization.
Updated Configuration Wizard can translate configuration texts.
Language file (langfile.txt) updated.
Japanese translation contributed by Dobry Den (website).
Registration dialog bugs fixed.
5-March-2007 | v.2.0.0.26 Beta.
Configuration Wizard Windows 2000 compatibility problem fixed.
Popup questions in the default configuration template updated.
Help->About dialog now displays localization info.
RTL languages support added.
Language file (langfile.txt) updated.
28-February-2007 | v.2.0.0.25 Beta.
System crash on launching applications from network drive fixed.
Random system crash in bcftdi.sys fixed.
Vista 64-bit edition login problems solved.
System crash after firewall uninstallation on Vista 64-bit edition fixed.
Network problems after JPF uninstallation on Vista fixed.
Windows Media player file access problem fixed.
Firewall hangup on changing configuration file fixed.
Firewall crash on adding rule with "go to table" action fixed.
Default configuration updated to minimize amountof popups.
22-February-2007 | v.2.0.0.24 Beta.
OLE/COM interprocess communications handling fixed.
Configuration Wizard added.
31-January-2007 | v.2.0.0.23 Beta.
System crash on answering popups fixed.
Application groups editor fixed.
30-January-2007 | v.2.0.0.22 Beta.
System hangup on incoming connections fixed.
Windows 2000 drivers compatibility issue fixed.
Windows 2000 setup program fixed.
Network file paths handling corrected.
17-January-2007 | v.2.0.0.21 Beta.
System crash on dual-processor systems fixed.
System folder redirector compatibility issues fixed on 64-bit systems.
Failure on editing rules with "Inverted match" on Application parameter fixed.
15-December-2006 | v.2.0.0.20 Beta.
Vista systems support added.
System crash on intensive logging fixed.
"indirect relativeness" indirect access to network type added for complex indirect relationships like process_1-parent->process_2-interprocess call->process_3
"Browse" button added to application groups editor.
Popup dialog updated.
Terminated process ID logging fixed.
Firewall upgrade procedure fixed.
9-November-2006 | v.2.0.0.17 Beta.
Zero applications hash fixed.
Hangup on playing video files (direct access to memory) fixed.
System crash on UDP communications fixed.
JPF network monitor driver crash fixed.
More verbose popup questions in default configuration.
2-November-2006 | v.2.0.0.16 Beta.
Crash on checking application activity fixed.
Hangup and configuration file corruption after multiple drag'n'drop operations fixed.
27-October-2006 | v.2.0.0.15 Beta.
Winxows XP 64-bit, Windows 2003 server (both 32 and 64-bit) support added.
DNSTester test passed.
IP CRC checking fixed (IP rules).
Empty popup messages removed.
Firewall access control list checking fixed.
Buffer overflow on entering long application names fixed.
DHCP rules added to default configuration.
26-September-2006 | v.2.0.0.10 Beta.
System startup problems fixed.
System crash on process attack rules fixed.
Incorrect list of protocols handling fixed in IP rules.
Rule editors design improved.
Setup program fixed.
Default configuration changes: jpf.exe allowed to install global hooks; Spelling errors corrected.
Jetico Personal Firewall executable modules were signed.
13-September-2006 | v.2.0.0.9 Beta.
System crash on rules with empty groups (appeared in v.2.0.0.8) fixed.
Rule from log creation function fixed.
11-September-2006 | v.2.0.0.8 Beta.
Blue screen after moving disabled rule fixed.
Multiple events checking is corrected in hash checking rule.
Type of empty tables (network/application/...) is written to configuration file.
Default action update after editing fixed.
Configuraton tab remembers selected table between sessions.
Uninstal program fixed.
"Groups" tab fixes: Warning on used groups deletion added; "Expand" context menu function implemented; "Create" context menu function fixed.
"Applications" tab fixes: Header and context menu added to translatable strings; "Copy text" context menu function fixed.
Options->General/Log/Access control dialogs added to translation.
Popup dialog tooltips fixed on Windows 2000.
29-August-2006 | v.2.0.0.7 Beta.
Firewall startup bugs fixed (error codes 80080005, 80070776).
Duplicated popup messages fixed (echo popups).
Buffer overrun on long flienames in application groups fixed.
"direct memory access" process attack event handling fixed.
UDP port checking bug is fixed in IP rules.
Window position is saved on shutdown now.
View->Toolbar status is displayed correctly.
Default configuration file updated to allow Jetico Personal Firewall client-server communications; Duplicated rules removed.
14-August-2006 | v.2.0.0.6 Beta.
"CoCreateInstance failed. hr=0x80070005" bug fixed.
System crash on rules with wildcards fixed.
"Copy text" function fixed.
Group view context menu fixed.
"Select log file" and MRU list are removed from log view context menu.
Default configuration file fixes: access to network is granted to csrss.exe and services.exe; "System" hash checking removed; rule creation mask is fixed for 'ask' rule in the "Network activity" table.
Uninstaller changed to clean up Jetico Personal Firewall registry entries.
3-August-2006 | v.2.0.0.5 Beta.
Uninstaller problem fixed. "File"->"Save as" function implemented.
1-August-2006
Initial Jetico Personal Firewall v.2 release
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