madirish
Premium
join:2003-08-04
Cleveland, OH
2 edits | Sunbelt Personal Firewall 4.5.916
prompted to backup rules did so and then tried to import same spf.cfg.Kero shut down,restarted and wiped out all rules. |
Sunbelt Personal Firewall 4.5.916.0 Readme File
04/26/2007
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(c) 2005-2006 Sunbelt Software. All rights reserved.
This document provides late-breaking or other information that supplements
the Sunbelt Personal Firewall documentation.
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CONTENTS
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1. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
3. ORDERING AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT INFORMATION
4. KNOWN BUGS, LIMITATIONS, AND WORKAROUNDS
5. CHANGE LOG
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1. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
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The Sunbelt Personal Firewall helps control how computers share information with
other computers through the Internet or a local network. It also protects computers from external
or internal attacks from other computers. The Personal Firewall is especially useful for laptop
computers since they are easier to compromise because of built-in wireless access.
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2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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* Operating System
o Windows XP Media Center Edition
o Windows XP Professional
o Windows XP Home
o Windows 2000 Professional
* Pentium 400 MHz or higher (Pentium III is the recommended minimum)
* 15 MB free disk space
* 64 MB memory
* 800 x 600 monitor resolution
Sunbelt Personal Firewall 4 does not run on the following operating systems:
* Windows NT
* Windows 2000 Server
* Windows 2003 Server
* Windows 95
* Windows 98 or Windows 98 SE (Second Edition)
* Windows ME
* Windows Vista
* 64 bit Versions of Windows
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3. ORDERING AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT INFORMATION
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If you would like to order Personal Firewall visit the Sunbelt Software online shop
(»www.sunbelt-software.com/Home-Ho···irewall/)
Voice: 1-888-NTUTILS (688-8457)
Technical Support: support@sunbelt-software.com
Knowledge Base:
»support.sunbelt-software.com/scr···d_lvl1=3
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4. KNOWN BUGS, LIMITATIONS, AND WORKAROUNDS
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* When using a password to restrict access to the configuration console, you may encounter
some screen flicker if you cancel the password request dialog.
* There are known issues when using Sunbelt Personal Firewall and certain USB
wireless network cards that may cause General Protection Faults.
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5. CHANGE LOG
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* Corrected issue in which registration fails when firewall is enabled.
* Significant improvement in network performance when web filtering is enabled.
* Enhanced Process Injection prevention to prevent code inject attempts into Windows system DLLs.
* Corrected numerous application crashes in the firewall service.
* Corrected various crashes in assist.exe
* Corrected issue in which setting password and checking for update does not cancel authentication form.
* Corrected issue in which binary data appeared in logs.
* Significant improvement in product stability.
get it here:»www.sunbelt-software.com/Home-Ho···irewall/
updater didn't pick up new version as of this post
edit-changed title to Sunbelt Personal Firewall |
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madirish
Premium
join:2003-08-04
Cleveland, OH
| after installing and checking for new version .918 shows up.Installed without a problem but still have the same problem importing newly created spf.cfg file-wipes out rules and reboots Sunbelt.Cannot access Packet Filter Rules-Sunbelt keeps crashing  |
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Qwerky
join:2006-05-24
Adanac
| reply to madirish
Hi madirish, thanks for your continued updates and info. I'm wondering whether you've had any success with 4.5.916?
I've been using 4.2.3 for about a year [Hey, just checked the date on the install directory--it's a year and a week exactly  .], and have been satisfied except for the one issue of occasional BSODs when allowing/creating new rule when prompted. Because of that, I'm thinking I ought to update.
So, I've just downloaded 4.5.916. Should I uninstall 4.2.3 and then do a fresh install of 4.5.916? Or, should I install 4.5.916 over top of 4.2.3? Or, should I not bother with this version at all  ?
Thanks.
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Qwerky |
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madirish
Premium
join:2003-08-04
Cleveland, OH
| said by Qwerky  :Hi madirish, thanks for your continued updates and info. I'm wondering whether you've had any success with 4.5.916? I've been using 4.2.3 for about a year [Hey, just checked the date on the install directory--it's a year and a week Iexactly .], and have been satisfied except for the one issue of occasional BSODs when allowing/creating new rule when prompted. Because of that, I'm thinking I ought to update. So, I've just downloaded 4.5.916. Should I uninstall 4.2.3 and then do a fresh install of 4.5.916? Or, should I install 4.5.916 over top of 4.2.3? Or, should I not bother with this version at all ? Thanks. Hi Qwerky
I can export config file but still cannot import same file.
You can just install over 4.5.916 over 4.2.3 if you want-I've done both.I like to uninstall a build every once and awhile and then install the new build (but since this problem with the config file and trying to import it I've been uninstalling the old and then installing the new build)
and your welcome  |
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JTM1051
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-08
Moorpark, CA
| reply to madirish
Been a long time user of ZA. Still using ZA Pro 5.5.094.000 because I do not care for all the non-firewall features/bloat of the 6.x/7.x versions and have decided time to switch to a true "firewall".
In the process of deciding whether to switch to Sunbelt Kerio PFW or Comodo Pro.
How has the Kerio PFW 4.5.916 been for you, and have you experienced problems by users posted over at the CastleCops' Official Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall Support Forum?
Several users posting that they have gone back to 4.3.268 version.
Wondering if I should try the 4.5.916 or 4.3.268? If 4.3.268, where can one download it from? (did not see any links at Sunbelt Kerio PFW for older versions)
TIA |
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madirish
Premium
join:2003-08-04
Cleveland, OH
| older versions can be gotten here:»www.filehippo.com/download_kerio···irewall/
I have removed SunBelt firewall from both of my computers.Am currently using OA.
I would try the older build 4.3.268.Good luck! |
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JTM1051
Premium,MVM
join:2000-07-08
Moorpark, CA
| Thanks!
I have removed SunBelt firewall from both of my computers. ... Was that due problems you were having with SPF?
I would try the older build 4.3.268.Good luck! The "Good Luck!" just a general good will jester, or that I'll need it? |
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madirish
Premium
join:2003-08-04
Cleveland, OH
| said by JTM1051 :Thanks! I have removed SunBelt firewall from both of my computers. ... Was that due problems you were having with SPF? I would try the older build 4.3.268.Good luck! The "Good Luck!" just a general good will jester, or that I'll need it? 1-you're welcome
2-nothing adversely affecting the firewall.Just couldn't import a rules config either from a current build or from a rules config from Kerio 2.1.5(other people were having this problem).Also got tired of the long periods between updates and new bugs being created with the new builds.Just lost faith in Sunbelt.
3-just a good will jester |
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gwion
wild colonial boy
Premium,ExMod 2001-08
join:2000-12-28
Pittsburgh, PA
| reply to madirish
Hi, friends... yep... I'm still using 2.1.5 ... despite the limitations, it's still the best packet filter (pure sense) available. I don't really know of anybody, nowdays, in the mainstream, doing a power user sort of firewall, in the metaphor of (old) Kerio, and I think it's a shame. Win32 brought computing to the masses, but it left us old goats out in the barnyard. The current incarnation of Kerio is an "integrated suite", and Sunbelt gives us no option. Take the suite, or take nothing.
Tiny > Kerio > Sunbelt was a one-trick pony, but it did the trick VERY well. It filtered ports and protocols. It relied on our understanding of which and whatever of those made sense, within our own understanding and use of the medium.
Firewall developers, take note. All you do, by coding the proxy with the firewall with the "privacy app" (usually, just an extension of the proxy, I digress) is create multiple, crossed over, unpredictible points of failure. Modular makes sense; small, one-trick apps, which can be "suited", if so desired, with PERL or TCL (obscene letters, of course, to a proprietary writer like MS, but... again... I ... hoo-boy, - - I digress... )
Remember, the original Tiny was a freebie spun off from the enterprise level suite Tiny was selling to the Navy and Air Force, the old "CMDS" (centrally managed desktop security) system - they sold it off to some Chinese company... digressing, again, uh-hum...
Hell...
Doesn't anybody do anything, anymore...
... just to be "Best of breed"?.?. |
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