Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 9 Nov 2005 8:57 pm |
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Kerio Personal Firewall has long been one of my favorites, as software firewalls go. Kerio is a child of the developers of the Tiny Personal Firewall, which is an outgrowth of the AtGuard Firewall, all of which have been in my arsenal for years, at one time or another.
You've heard the saying that all good things must end, and in the case of the Kerio Personal Firewall that time is coming fast.
According to a notice on the KPF 4.2.2 download page, at http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html all development will cease on December 31, 2005. If anybody wanted to grab a copy now is your chance. As of January 1, 2006 it will no longer be available from Kerio.com. Kerio will continue to offer technical support to paying customers for a while, but not to non-paying ones.
Here is the message on their website concerning this policy:
CUSTOMER ALERT
Kerio Personal Firewall is being discontinued on December 31, 2005. While Kerio will continue to support this product for all customers through 2006, we will not be actively developing any new features or functionality going forward.
Sidenote:
Kerio Personal Firewall is FREE for home and personal use. For corporate use please see the pricing and licensing policies section.
For home users, Kerio Personal Firewall 4 is available in two flavors - the full edition and the limited free edition.
After installation, KPF works as the full edition for 30 days, after which it becomes the limited free edition.
Limited free edition does not provide the content filtering capabilities such as blocking pop-up windows, ads, VB scripts, cookies, etc. and other extra features.
Current version: 4.2.2
Release date: October 18, 2005
File size: 5.3 MB
Download from: http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html
Wiz |
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