What's new in DefenseWall 3.25
Apr 30, 2015
- Privilege escalation from within trusted zone solved
- Untrusted zone bypass method covered.
- Whitelist has been extended.
- Help file updated.
New in DefenseWall 3.24 (Mar 27, 2014)
- Digital certificate issue solved.
New in DefenseWall 3.23 (Mar 21, 2014)
- Support for new Chromium-based Opera.
- Minor improvements.
New in DefenseWall 3.22 (Jul 30, 2013)
- Google Chrome crashes when untrusted solved.
- Windows 8.1 Preview support.
- Internal browser "Tab" issue solved.
- Untrusted Zoom Player issue solved.
- Internal improvements on performance.
New in DefenseWall 3.21 (Feb 16, 2013)
- Now it's possible to update FireFox, uTorrent and ICQ out of box, without need to run them as trusted first
- Windows 8 Mail Metro is set as untrusted by default
- Minor internal improvements
New in DefenseWall 3.20 (Nov 14, 2012)
- Automatic cleanup for internal lists enhanced.
- Whitelist extended.
- Solved an issue with FireFox can't play Flash-based content.
- One new hotkey (Win-Alt-'R') added for displaying trusted and untrusted processes currently running.
- Number of untrusted processes, displaying with tray icon, up to Creer, thank you for the icon's artwork!
New in DefenseWall 3.19 (Aug 28, 2012)
- Windows 8 compatibility improved.
- FireFox Aurora/Nightly update issue solved.
- An issue solved with the main executable.
- Whitelisting list enhanced
New in DefenseWall 3.18 (Apr 30, 2012)
- Every binary module is digitally signed.
- Found and solved an issue with copy control functionality. Now it puts untrusted attribute correct way.
- Found and solved an issue with Windows events were triggering once per two seconds.
- Found and solved an issue with inability to start WMP initialization in trusted zone for Windows 8.
- Whitelisting enhanced.
New in DefenseWall 3.17 (Feb 10, 2012)
- Internal improvements on various 3.16 issues
New in DefenseWall 3.16 (Nov 18, 2011)
- Anti-TOCTTOU protection issues solved.
- Windows 8 pre-beta compatible.
- Project is re-written with safe string functions.
- Initialization scripts are improved.
New in DefenseWall 3.15 (Jul 20, 2011)
- Internal lists caching implemented.
- Anti-TOCTTOU protection hardened.
- New protection methods implemented.
- Few issues are solved.
New in DefenseWall 3.14 (Jun 30, 2011)
- "Go Banking/Shopping" mode is enhanced with built-in elementary browser. From now on, this mode does not terminate all the untrusted processes.
- Opera auto-updates are supported.
- Protection algorithms are improved.
- Various compatibility issues are solved.
- BitCoin client for Windows is covered by "Resource Protection" to prevent walled.dat stealing.
New in DefenseWall 3.13 (May 26, 2011)
- A serious issue may allow malware to execute on every Windows restart solved.
- "Stop attack" now restarts services that were terminated in order to restore full computer functionality without restart.
- Minor updates and fixes.
New in DefenseWall 3.12 (May 13, 2011)
- Now DefenseWall push its logging reports into the Windows "Application" log.
- MS10-73 covered for unpatched Windows instances.
- Compatibility issues with third-party software solved.
- White list extended.
New in DefenseWall 3.11 (Apr 11, 2011)
- Multiple kernel memory leaks issues are solved, as well as two BSOD ones.
New in DefenseWall 3.10 (Mar 24, 2011)
- Tray menu re-built.
- New popup dialog on new "Program Files" folder making by untrusted process.
- "Untrusted Applications", "Rollback", "Firewall" and "Defense Excludes" dialog's lists are much faster.
- Untrusted status visualization with Windows Explorer.
- Whitelist is enhanced.
- Two BSOD issues solved.
- Minor security and compatibility issues solved.
New in DefenseWall 3.09 (Dec 7, 2010)
- Windows Vista/7 Scheduler issue solved
- Windows Vista/7 login/logout issue solved
- Overal protection level increased
New in DefenseWall 3.08 (Oct 13, 2010)
- MS Word, AVG 2011, Norton Online Family, IIS, Apache and some other compatibility issues are solved.
- Programming errors in protection are fixed.
New in DefenseWall 3.07 (Sep 7, 2010)
- This build contains a number of security improvements and compatibility issues solved.
- Greek UI translation added.
New in DefenseWall 3.06 (Aug 6, 2010)
- This build solves several issues, including a BSOD one.
- German UI translation added.
New in DefenseWall 3.05 (Jul 27, 2010)
- Windows Shell .LNK exploit coped.
New in DefenseWall 3.04 (Jul 17, 2010)
- Anti-TOCTTOU (race conditions) protection has been improved.
- Shared folders issue has been solved.
New in DefenseWall 3.03 (Jul 6, 2010)
- Strong anti-TOCTTOU (race conditions) protection is integrated into.
- Untrusted document files, not allowed to be modified by untrusted, running with MS Office, are able now to be modified.
- Various issues are improved.
New in DefenseWall 3.02 (Jul 6, 2010)
- This build solves multiple issues, including a BSOD one.
New in DefenseWall 3.01 (May 20, 2010)
- This build solves multiple issues, found with v3.00.
New in DefenseWall 3.00 (Apr 21, 2010)
- New DefenseWall Personal Firewall edition is created.
- Dynamic Trusted/Untrusted zones control for installation software is added.
- System shutdown control is added.
- Screen capturing control for untrusted processes is added.
- Whitelisting for new "known as good" installation programs is added.
- Multiple stability and security-related issues are solved.
New in DefenseWall 2.56 (Jun 29, 2009)
- Various third-party compatibility issues are fixed. DDE launch is improved. IBM Lotus Symphony support is added.
New in DefenseWall 2.55 (May 21, 2009)
- New Windows 7 Release Candidate compatibility issues are fixed.
New in DefenseWall 2.54 (May 4, 2009)
- This version fixes various issues alongside with sandbox defense hardening.
- Atlantics Word Processor support is added
New in DefenseWall 2.53 (Apr 8, 2009)
- This version fixes various issues found with the 2.52 one.
New in DefenseWall 2.52 (Mar 20, 2009)
- This build fixes main module high CPU usage as well as a number of third-party software compatibility.
New in DefenseWall 2.51 (Mar 9, 2009)
- This build fixes a number of serious flows with the previous versions as well as a few kernel memory leaks.
- System time protection is added.
- Symbolic links protection is added.
New in DefenseWall 2.47 (Jan 23, 2009)
- This version fixes a number of problems found with the 2.46 version
New in DefenseWall 2.46 (Jan 23, 2009)
- Advanced COM protocol control.
- Improved localization abilities (dwall_res.dll). Now on, you can make any localizations by your own hands.
- Performance improvements.
- OpenOffice3, Google Chrome, SWR Iron, Windows Media Recorder 12, Reply Media Catcher and other software support with default ruleset.
- Removable HDD's are supported as removable devices.
- Process separation for MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word Viewer.
- Removable sources are untrusted by default.
- Buggy ActiveSkin is dropped off. Software is temporary unskinned.
- Also, version contains a number of compatibility fixes.
New in DefenseWall 2.45 (Jan 23, 2009)
- Significantly increased the number of auto-protected files extensions in order to improve GpCode protection.
- Added an ability to automatically launch browser for "Go Banking/Shopping" as trusted.
- Added an ability to save DW's logs into one text file.
- Added "Query Google" function for keys/files/folders from the rollback list.
- Added "Save Details" function to save keys/files/folders info from the rollback list.
- Added "Secured Files" excludes feature.
- Added protection against account rights removal.
- Re-organized shell extension menu.
- Added additional resource protection for aMSN, Windows Address Book and Outlook Express mailing folders.
- Also, version contains a number of compatibility fixes.
New in DefenseWall 2.44 (Jan 23, 2009)
- This version contains a number of fixes and improvements.
New in DefenseWall 2.43 (Jun 7, 2008)