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NetPeeker Changelog

What's new in NetPeeker 4.5.2.1467

Jan 22, 2023
  • Improvements:
  • System guard add "effect day/hour" feature
  • Group edition further optimized console/agents communication, to avoid console hang caused by events flood.
  • Personal edition GUI show history bar when click the current down/up number
  • GUI Change text scale when user change Windows text size instead of DPI
  • Changed behavior of "Do not block local network". If one rule explicitly block by a local network address, honor it.
  • Issues fixed:
  • System guard fix issue that registry deletion was not detected/blocked
  • Fixed one crash when multiple network packets windows opened
  • Fix issue that drag/drop firewall rule items cause crash

New in NetPeeker 4.5.1.1453 (Dec 18, 2021)

  • Improvements:
  • Whole new group edition 4.5.1
  • Change archiving to report progress more smooth and easy abort
  • Also show service name for non-svchost services, and for Wow64 process
  • Do not show duplicate listening port if listen on multiple interface
  • Firewall events now show rule name in brief list
  • Tested works for Windows 11
  • Issues fixed:
  • Query log with exact remote name filter got empty result
  • URLs captured in log was not display when show log detail
  • In statistics view, change view size will cause plot showing mess up
  • IP location failed show latitude/longitude
  • Some process exit but still keep live in process list
  • Listening UDP port will lose track after several minutes
  • Failed resolve unicode DNS name

New in NetPeeker 4.5.0.1430 (Feb 1, 2021)

  • Re-written kernel driver for more solid architecture.
  • Better compatibility with Windows 10
  • New file/folder protection in SystemGuard
  • Display service name correctly on Windows 10
  • Acquire most established sessions upon install, do not need reboot
  • Improved priority based traffic shapping, better utilize network bandwidth
  • Audit files are more corrupt tolerant
  • Fixed outdated WHOIS and geo-location utility

New in NetPeeker 4.0.0.1381 (May 29, 2017)

  • Whole new GUI and API

New in NetPeeker 3.50.1177 (Jul 26, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • Optimized priority based throttle to be more smart and try to not waste network bandwidth.
  • Clean the Throttle setting page, move settings into extra dialog, to make settings clear.
  • Re-written the DOS detection code. Now it can detect DOS in period of "minute" or "hour" instead of "second" only.
  • Re-written the SYN flood protection code, actively force windows TCP/IP stack to release resources for the half-open sessions, to be able to accept more incoming connections
  • "System Guard" feature added ability to block .NET executibles.
  • Optimized BlueTrak rule importing, to be able to import more than 300000 records in short time. Also limited GUI ruleset tree to display only first 100 imported item, to improve dialog loading speed.
  • Personal Edition: Show different toaster title color for triggered allow/deny/ask rules.
  • Personal Edition: When close main window to the tray icon, display the "still running" balloon only twice (keep slient after twice display)
  • Added "Min" button to "View Detail" dialog.
  • Save and restore column position information for all TreeList controls, include columns width.
  • Add "Unblock" context menu for program and sessions, whenever there was a firewall rule created by "Block It!"
  • Issues fixed:
  • Display service name correctly for Win8/2012
  • Fixed conflict with "McAfee Internet Security" which caused sessions failed to be displayed
  • Fixed bug that when DNS cache full, firewall/throttle stop working for rules based on DNS name
  • Fixed an occasional BSOD when using throttle.
  • Fixed one BSOD on Win2003.
  • Fix issue that disabling rule in log or capture setting dialog does not work (it still enabled after applied).
  • Fix issue that when security event log was disabled and there is "NO log" rule, the blocked session still be logged.
  • Fix issue that when there are multiple-screen and the left one is the second one, Net-Peeker's scroll bars will stop working on the left screen.
  • Fixed issue that after firewall disabled, blocked ICMP/UDP sessions is still blocked
  • Fixed bug that throttle controls speed too aggressively when only one peer enable TCP window scaling
  • Fixed bug that some locale character in filewall rule name will crash GUI.
  • Personal Edition: Fix issue that when process dialog displayed for statistics or capture dialog, it bring up the main window and overlap the current dialog.
  • Fix issue that "Import Sponge's rule list" radio button will stay selected after selected once.
  • Fix bug that click column to sort does not work on columns which changed order.
  • Group Edition: Fix issue in remote installer dialog that collapse then expand the root network tree will result blank list.

New in NetPeeker 3.40 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Network traffic quota. Allocate monthly or daily quota based on rule, chose block or limit speed after quota used up. This is a feature under "Throttle" engine, requires "throttle" engine to be enabled. You can also check current quota status inside throttle setting page.
  • Generic rule editor now support "remote country" criteria, so firewall and speed limit rule can be created based on remote country.
  • "Who is" and "session information" dialog add option to get remote geolocation.
  • A new utility to migrate exist agents to new console
  • Improvements:
  • All Editions: A new log query option to "show security events only"
  • All Editions: Added default option "Do not block or limit speed for sessions inside local network"
  • All Editions: Bytes and speed calculation changed to include all packet headers instead of payload only, to more suit the calculation of ISP and Windows system So the speed Net-Peeker displayed will be slightly higher then application display who only care about paypload
  • All Editions: Auto fit column size when user double-click any list column header
  • All Editions: By default enable log events and setup log folder to "[Net-Peeker folder]\log"
  • All Editions: Added log option to not save remote information in statistics, to reduce data size
  • All Editions: Improved the statistics bar display, to show more low data when contrast is too high
  • All Editions: In any query dialog, whenever "from date" or "to date" changes, automatically adjust the other one to avoid invalid date range
  • All Editions: Adjusted default firewall rules to avoid false alert on Win7
  • Personal Edition: Disable "block all traffic" when user is in remote session, to avoid leaving the remote machine unreachable
  • Group Edition: Improved agent status detection, do not warn user if agent not power on, only warn on real abnormal disconnection.
  • Group Edition: Improved security event collection. Agent will cache them locally if console not running or unreachable, and send them all to console when console connected again
  • Group Edition: All connected agents will get polled for speeds every 5 seconds, no need for "Monitor agent speed" menu. "Managed" agent will still get polled every 1 second
  • Bugs fixed:
  • All Editions: Fixed a crash on Vista/Win7
  • All Editions: Fixed one issue on Win2003R2 SP2 that occasionally copying file from Win7 to it will fail
  • All Editions: Fixed processing on UDP packet which caused inaccurate bytes/speed display and speed limit.
  • All Editions: Fixed bug that statistics bar failed to show data larger than 2 gigabytes
  • All Editions: Fix bug that exporting log items get wrong result.
  • All Editions: Fix a false positive in System Guard when application try to create an exist key
  • Personal Edition: Fixed one issue that when screen size changed, GUI cannot be display because it remembered old position which now outside of screen.
  • Personal Edition: Fix issue that failed to detect system process termination on Vista/Win7
  • Personal Edition: Fix issue on traffic history dialog that scroll forward requires two clicks on the scroll bar.
  • Group Edition: Fixed a bug that uninstallation occasionally delete license and config files even if was informed not to

New in NetPeeker 3.30 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • New major feature - System Guard. Protect system by monitoring operations on registry and execution attempts, deny operation by rules.
  • Removed "popup killer" feature for XP/2003 (for Win7, there was no such feature), because web browser did better now.
  • Distinguish services hosted inside svchost.exe, display them separately.
  • Re-write the throttle priority codes, now it's easier to use and not require input network interface maximum speed.
  • Improved string display in detail dialog and log viewer, to display long strings neatly.
  • Changed WhoIs code to parse new data format get from ARIN.
  • For firewall/throttle/log rule list, added check box beside each rule to disable/enable rule more easier (per customer request)
  • Group edition console can "un-manage" agent now.
  • Group edition console highlight current "managed" agent.

New in NetPeeker 3.21 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • New features added:
  • Firewall rule on application now support wildcard.
  • For example A rule of "c:\program files\aaa\*.exe" will match all ".exe" files inside that folder, not include sub folders.
  • A rule of "c:\program files\...\*.exe" will match all ".exe" in folder "c:\program files", include all sub folders.
  • Bug Fixed:
  • Fixed issue with Win2003, on which coping file from Win7 to Win2003 failed.
  • Fixed crash in WhoIs. When query "flip.com", the server return line too long.
  • Fixed several crashes on Vista/Win7
  • Fixed an issue on firewall rule on URL. If the session accessed multiple URLs, firewall rule only worked one first one.
  • Fixed GUI exit when ESC pressed.
  • Fixed license issue on Group edition, the license information was not sent to agent.
  • Tuned the throttle to make it more accurate.
  • Fixed speed calculate issue on PPPOE network, which was faster then real speed.
  • Fixed a bug that setting throttle on single session did not work.
  • Fixed the statistics dialog, sometimes it display empty graph

New in NetPeeker 3.20 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • Fully support Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 2008
  • Fixed the packet delay issue
  • Add applications and sessions speed limit feature (by customer request)
  • Add pausing and resuming live data capturing feature.
  • Freshly installed Netpeeker can start working without rebooting, except it will not monitor established sessions prior to the installation.
  • Fixed the XP SP3 firewall issue, which denied the DNS client by mistake.
  • Firewall and Throttle features will be disabled by default. This is to avoid the problem during installation through remote session.
  • No longer requiring the Windows Firewall to be disabled.
  • Removed pop-up killer feature for Vista and Windows 7, because modern browsers have better pop-up control themselves.
  • Stopped Windows 98/ME and NT support, because Microsoft stopped supporting them.

New in NetPeeker 3.1 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • Fully support x64 windows (XP and Windows 2003)
  • Shows and Logs all accessed URLs
  • For rules on ICMP protocol, now you can specify the ICMP types
  • Improved log viewer for personal edition, to be the same as group edition. (Query logs faster and shows in pages)
  • Enhanced file version detection, now display version information for some modules with wrong language code
  • Enhanced statistics collection, now can gether real time statistics instead of 5 minutes delay
  • Show national flags for country in WHOIS query result.
  • Improved agent connection, reconnect after network broken

New in NetPeeker 3.0 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • Distributed network traffic monitor.With agents installed on target computers, now you can monitor application speed on any local computer from console
  • From console, you can limit network speed of any local computer
  • Improved log data structure, more query options, and more fast.
  • Archive logs and statistics from agents, zip on the fly.
  • Browse archived logs without uncompress zip file.
  • Live capture network packets from any agent.
  • All agent will report security events to console, you can see all events centrally from console.
  • Remote install agent without going to the desktop (not available for 98/ME agent)

New in NetPeeker 2.83 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • New features added:
  • During install time, there are two new firewall options: "Typical Mode" and "Learning Mode". While "Typical Mode" is the same as old versions, the "Learning Mode" will ask user for actions on each network activity.
  • Interface list in the Throttle setting dialog now display both active and inactive interfaces, include dial-up and VPN, and it will show the interface descriptions.
  • Now you can set option of firewall rule to disable it after certain time.
  • For "Allow" firewall rule, you can set it to block more connections if the concurrent sessions exceed limitation.
  • Features improved:
  • The firewall popup confirmation dialog is improved. User can chose from multiple pre-defined rules for future actions.
  • Uninstall of NetPeeker will not remove license information unless user ask for.
  • Improved firewall preview, shows all options.
  • Bug fixed:
  • Fixed a throttle bug on 98/ME which cause system freeze (System function ExQueueWorkItem() is not safe on 98/ME).
  • Fixed a crash when throttle apply to heavy IIS server.
  • Fixed a crash on XP SP2.
  • Fixed the waiting message of WHOIS dialog on 98/ME

New in NetPeeker 2.82 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • New features added:
  • New scale sliders on "history graph" dialog
  • New capture option to set how many packets stored in each capture file. Old way will start a new capture every 5 mins, which will generate too many files sometimes
  • Backup old firewall rule file whenever it changed
  • Features improved:
  • Now it is WinRoute compatible, but following features was disabled to avoid conflict.
  • Limit speed for ICS clients.
  • Ask for confirmation when sending ICMP or raw IP packets.
  • Bug fixed:
  • Fixed a kernel memory leak when log is enabled
  • Fixed a bug that display speed incorrectly for heavy server
  • Fixed the freezing small traffic graph on main window.

New in NetPeeker 2.81 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • New features added::
  • Live capture traffic packets for application/process.
  • Generate capture rule from live capture
  • Monitor and block listening actions on UDP ports
  • Features improved:
  • Enable modifying all option settings when install, before reboot.
  • Automatically convert 8.3 file path name to long path name.
  • Display sequence number in capture display dialog
  • Bug fixed:
  • Fixed the upload plot in statistics view which could not update. (maybe due to a XP theme problem)
  • Fixed the bug that listening port will disappear after sometime.

New in NetPeeker 2.8 (Jun 5, 2012)

  • New features added:
  • Throttle Priority: Give critical applications more bandwidth.
  • DOS attack detection and block: Block remote address if it try to connect to your computer very frequently.
  • Firewall can run on "Learning" mode: Prompt user before take action, and create rules by user demand.
  • Log live update: Live update log item list when you browse the latest logs.
  • WHOIS now can return domain name registration information.
  • Application traffic graph: display application traffic graph along with total traffic graph.
  • New option to disable updating session information: This will keep low CPU usage on busy server.
  • Features improved:
  • Now the "Load capture file" feature can load both saved capture file and raw capture file
  • Single driver which compatible with F-Secure and Outpost products, no patch any more.
  • Log viewer can load raw log file.
  • Improved the graph display, more smooth when drag the scroll bar, and display the time range tip while dragging.
  • Event popup "toaster" use different color to indicate different critical level.
  • Change the meaning of system buttons: "minimize to tray icon" changed to "minimize to taskbar", while "exit" changed to "minimize to tray icon".
  • Display full main menu when right click the tray icon.
  • If capture was enabled, system firewall will capture the problem packet automatically when detected attack.
  • Bug fixed:
  • Fixed a memory leak in system objects, which will cause crash if run with Symantec AV for long time.
  • Now the log viewer filter can handle wildcard "*" correctly
  • Fixed a crash when running with VPN.