FortiClient Endpoint Security 5

FYI, FortiClient for Windows 5.0.6.320 is out.

 

Is there a changelog?

 

http://docs.fortinet.com/fclient/re...5.0-Patch-Release-6-Windows-Release-Notes.pdf

FWIW, I gave Forticlient a second chance and re-installed it on a portable laptop running a Intel Core Duo T2300 with 2.5GB ram, and W7HP. It slowed to a crawl for the next 3 days. The services were consuming 40-50% of cpu time, especially when browsing. I went back to Avast. I think Forticlient is a great package, and I really want to use on clients/ familly pc's as a free solution, but until they tackle the cpu usage issues, Avast will have to be my primary choice.

 

I want to use it too but even my new notebook with i5 cpu was getting slow. I think there must be something wrong with FortiClient.

 

FortiClient (Windows) v5.0 Patch Release 6
• Improved usability of the repackager tool
• Repackaged clients can be upgraded
• Option to drop IPv6 traffic when an IPsec VPN connection is established. IPv4 traffic is sent
through the tunnel or otherwise, depending on whether split tunnel is used

 

I like their virus detection but they blocked my favourite sites which doesn't contain anything malicious at all. It's sound like I'm running parent control program in my pc.

 

their web filter more or less is a parental control
it is very restrictive, you must configure the setting to match your need.

 

As soon as they fix the high cpu usage issue, I'll give it another go....

 

Never experianced high cpu usage except when forti was scanning my computer.

 

Newer PCs can handle it, but it just bogs down pre "i"3,5,7 machines using W7, which is what most of my relatives overseas are using.

 

Yeah it can feel heavy on older laptops. On those laptops I install K9 and Bitdefender safeplay.

 

Older laptops I usually run;

Kaspersky (all settings to LOW)
F-Secure
and even sometimes Chicalogic(MBAM) w/Web Filter off.

Other AV's seem to bog them down more than I like. Webroot seems good too, but I tend to not utilize products from larger US_Based companies when possible. (and I've had that logic since the 1990s)

 

But Webroot is not exactly a big company compared to Symantec, McAfee etc etc...

 

I noticed Forticlient creates a "Fortinet virtual adapter" network connection.
Do I need to modify the TCPIP settings of that adapter to use OpenDNS too, or is this adapter kind of daisy chained to the physical adapter, which uses OpenDNS ?

Thanks!

P.S. Now at 5.0.7.333, by the way.

 

Replying myself:
No need to modify the virtual adapter's DNS settings, it uses the physical adapter's ones.

 

Can't find the changelog anywhere, the Fortinet website is a totally mess.

 

Why not?

 

Because of NSA, FBI and so on.

Is the latest version of Forti lighter?

 

What's the point if you are already running Windows.

I don't have a direct access to my Forti client running computers but I haven't heard from their end users that their machine started running suprisingly fast. So Im assuming it's exactly like before.
Still, it's a perfect run and forget set ups on those machines that you don't have access to for years to come.

 

http://docs-legacy.fortinet.com/fclnt.html
http://docs.fortinet.com/forticlient/release-information

http://docs-legacy.fortinet.com/fclient/forticlient-xml-50.pdf
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January 23rd, 2014
http://www.neowin.net/news/forticlient-507333
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Security-Related/FortiClient.shtml

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FortiClient (Windows) v5.0 Patch Release 7
• Improved antivirus scanning performance
• Improvements to the Endpoint Control GUI

 

Has anyone tried the latest version? I'm wondering if it still consumes too much cpu cycles.

 

I want to know that too, could you please try it?

 

I just tried the very last version; I don't know about CPU cycles, but for sure Fortinet is not lightweight at all.

 

I went ahead and installed it on a client's pc. If she complains about slower performance, then I'll likely install Avast instead.