October 21st, 2009· Resolved problem with Windows 7 User Account Control
· Stateful engine settings can now be tuned via registry
October 21st, 2009· Stateful inspection engine improved.
· Resolved problem with IIS7 incoming connections under Vista or Server 2008.
· Process protection enabled for Windows 7.
· A table's default action restored after import or clone operations.
· Popup dialog now supports empty groups list.
· "Critical system object modification" event parameters corrected.
· Application accessibility improved.
· Romanian translation provided by Mihai Iepure.
October 21st, 2009· Added ARP packet MAC addresses filtering
· Added Table hints for best template selection
· Added Table properties dialog
· Help file updated
· Minor issues resolved
October 21st, 2009· Pete Mierski translated language file to Polish language.
· Empty event in Application checksum rules fixed.
· Improved hash calculation.
· Documentation updated.
· JPF 2.1 beta only: UDP broadcasts support.
· JPF 2.1 beta only: resource leaks fixed.
February 3rd, 2009· JPF 2.1 beta has new stateful packet inspection module.
New SPI module features:
· passthrough connections handling;
· improved port scan detection.
· Please note: replies to broadcast UDP packets are not recognized in JPF 2.1 beta.
December 8th, 2008· Visual Studio build process hangup fixed.
· Stateful ARP filtering imroved.
· Process protection improved.
· Registry monitoring improved.
· New "change process privileges" process attack event introduced to control process privelege elevation.
· Ukrainian translation created by Xa0c.
· Language files updated.
· Configuration template updated
October 3rd, 2008· 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.
June 30th, 2008· 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.
May 26th, 2008· Problem with Firefox access to network fixed.
· Windows 2000 protection improved.
May 20th, 2008· 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.
May 5th, 2008· 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.
February 18th, 2008· Short filenames problem fixed.
· "Clone table" problem fixed.
· Dutch translation updated.
· Seamonkey detection added.
February 1st, 2008· Port scanning problems fixed.
· Hangup while updating DNS cache fixed.
· Hangup after security policy switching fixed.
· Spanish translation contributed by Senpai.
· Skype detection updated.
January 24th, 2008· System crash after group update fixed.
· Configuration Wizard UI is now correctly translated during setup.
· Dutch translation contributed by Jochem.
December 11th, 2007· 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.
October 16th, 2007· Memory leak in bcftdi.sys driver fixed.
· Domain names are printed in configuration tables is available.
September 20th, 2007· 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 updated: Rule for Ximeta NDAS devices added (off by default) / "Network Time Protocol client" application template table added / "Allow everything" application template table added
August 22nd, 2007· 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 commands added to the policy tree context menu.
· Expand/Collapse command 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 updated: Explorer.exe is allowed to access the network / Stateful ARP enabled to prevent ARP poisoning / "Bypass" rule fixed in the "Access to network" table
May 31st, 2007· System crash on high load fixed.
May 28th, 2007· Firewall freezing on switching security policy fixed.
· Setup program registartion fixed.
· JPF server memory usage reduced.
· Russian translation updated.
May 22nd, 2007· 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.
May 16th, 2007· 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 mesaages improved.
· IP rule parameters are displayed in the 'Misc' column.
· Configuration Wizard import function fixed.
· Chinese (simplified) translation contributed by Gao Xue Feng.
April 13th, 2007· 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. Added templates for: 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.
April 9th, 2007· 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.
April 2nd, 2007· "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.
· Registration dialog bugs fixed.
March 1st, 2007· 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.
January 15th, 2007· 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.
August 1st, 2006Removed 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.
Find us on Google+
