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.
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