GeSWall 2.5 Professional Edition Released

[dmenace]

i went to the GeSWall website; http://www.gentlesecurity.com/download.html; to find GeSWall 2.5 Freeware has now been released!

Furthermore a "GeSWall 2.5 Professional Edition" is available. Does anyone know what is the difference between the two versions? (Is there a comparison table anywhere?)

I will try it out in my VMWare machine and let you know what's changed.

[KikiBibi]

Here's the chart.

http://www.gentlesecurity.com/professional.html

[dmenace]

Thanks, that is one difficult page to find! So they basically cut down the free version of GeSWall very slightly.

Edit:

So basically you can use version 2.3x, and get similar protection to version 2.5 pro. I haven't found a "What's New" section on their website so I suppose they have the same security but version 2.5 adds more programs. Does anyone know if there are any notable new security features in release 2.5?

[Devil's Advocate]

Looks to me you are paying for the white list and settings for safe applications no?

Not a big deal..

[Pedro]

If i understood them correctly, i'm uninstalling, or keeping 2.3.

Freeware version only protects email client and browser??

If that's true, i have 3 possibilities: keep this 2.3 version, go for SandboxIE definetly, or try out BZ free version.

[alfa1]

here is a sort of "what's new":

http://www.gentlesecurity.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=50


However, what about the strenght of this release?
Even if an old version was tested (2.2.5), Geswall from this review http://www.techsupportalert.com/secu...ualization.htm exited with broken off boneses as opposite to the competitors.....

[lucas1985]

that test is flawed. GeSWall does not stop the malware. It tracks the files created and redirect the registry calls to a virtual registry. Because of this(no malware "separation"), GeSWall was no longer tested.
That test methodology clearly favours the virtualization concept of Sandboxie, GreenBorder, DefenseWall, BufferZone