Jetico Free Personal Firewall
Jetico Personal Firewall 这是一款全面而又简单易用的个人网络防火墙,它可以定制事件日志、报告,定制适合自己的防火墙选项。极为开放友好的模块架构可以使网络安全评估更为简单。支持Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP。
使用Jetico个人防火墙你可以
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1.在连通互联网时防止你的个人计算机受到黑客和恶意软件的攻击。
2.使用预防御安全策略。
3.编辑防御安全策略(例如:防火墙规则集配置功能)。
4.生成你自己的防御安全策略。
5.监视访问互联网的应用程序。
6.监视被选择(或全部)的网络数据包和网络事件。
Version 1.0.1.61 Freeware
19th July, 2005.
Following is a list of bugs fixed:
#Occasional problem of unloading firewall user interface module at shutdown time in Windows NT 4.0 is fixed.
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Jetico Personal Firewall for Windows v2.0 public beta
Important notes. Read before installation.
Jetico Personal Firewall v2 is beta software. It has numerous improvements and may contain bugs.
Please do not use it on production systems.
Please uninstall previous versions of Jetico Personal Firewall software before installing this one.
Installation program does not mark Jetico Personal Firewall server to start at boot time. Instead, it sets server startup type to "Automatic".
Jetico Personal Firewall package does not contain Configuration Wizard program.
Removed features
Windows 9x/Me system support discontinued. Please use Jetico Personal Firewall v1 for these systems.
System-related changes
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.
User interface changes
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 changes
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.
Changes in 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 changes
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.
The latest fixes and improvements
1. 3-August-2006 release. Changes:
Uninstaller problem fixed.
"File"->"Save as" function implemented.
2. 14-August-2006 version 2.0.0.6 beta released. Changes:
"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 fixed: 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. 29-August-2006 version 2.0.0.7 beta released. Changes:
Firewall startup bugs fixed (error codes 80080005, 80070776).
Duplicated popup messages fixed (echo popups).
Duplicated rules in default configuration fixed.
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
4. 11-September-2006 version 2.0.0.8 beta released. Changes:
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:
a) Warning on used groups deletion added.
b) "Expand" context menu function implemented.
c) "Create" context menu function fixed.
"Applications" tab fixes:
a) Header and context menu added to translatable strings.
b) "Copy text" context menu function fixed.
Options->General/Log/Access control dialogs added to translation.
Popup dialog tooltips fixed on Windows 2000.
5. 13-September-2006 version 2.0.0.9 beta released. Changes:
System crash on rules with empty groups (appeared in v 2.0.0.8) fixed.
Rule from log creation function fixed.
6. 26-September-2006 version 2.0.0.10 beta released. Changes:
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
a) Jpf.exe allowed to install global hooks.
b) Spelling errors corrected.
Jetico Personal Firewall executable modules were signed.
7. 27-October-2006 version 2.0.0.15 beta released. Changes:
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.
8. 2-November-2006 version 2.0.0.16 beta released. Changes:
Crash on checking application activity fixed.
Hangup and configuration file corruption after multiple drag'n'drop operations fixed
If you want to evaluate Jetico Personal Firewall version 2, download and install following file
:
Jetico Personal Firewall for Windows 2000/XP
- 2845 kB
Jetico Personal Firewall for Windows 2000/XP and NT4 SP6