GeSWall 2.5 Professional Edition Released

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.

 

Here's the chart.

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

 

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?

 

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

Not a big deal..

 

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.

 

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/security_virtualization.htm exited with broken off boneses as opposite to the competitors.....

 

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