Outpost Firewall PRO 4.0 Released!

Hi,

New Outpost Firewall PRO 4.0 has been just released by Agnitum:
http://internetsecuritysuites.blogspot.com/2006/09/agnitum-introduces-outpost-firewall.html

The official Agnitum download page is here:
http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/download.php

I've been already testing this product when it was in a RC-stage and it was working like a charm passing all the leaktests.

It is very interesting what other people think about it!

 

thanks for d info and good to learn that old customers are getting free upgrade..

 

I wonder when they are implementing a IDS. I also wonder if outpost now ha 100% fast user switch support. With 3xx when i switched to another user the outpost icon will appear but all notification balloons where showed in the other account ! If these two things are implemented/fixed i will try too use Outpost again

 

You can view the new features here:

http://www.agnitum.com/products/outpost/whatsnew40.php

 

Yes, i think they are to much conserned about those leaktest. They better implement an IDS with signatures and the full fast user switch support

 

agreed, the fast user switching issue was what made me leave Outpost behind

 

well they do have the Attack Detection plugin.

 

Is this the RC4 on full release, or have mods been made?

 

well that's an interesting one...people who have tried the two will be able to tell us seeing the version nos..

i also wanted to know if its working w/o too much mem prob or w/o any BSOD's....

i am currently using comodo and will switch only after some +ve feedbacks here..

 

I have an image of RC4,.. so I will have to check later

I didnt see any BSOD with RC3 or RC4 (I only installed those),.. memory use, I did not check.

 

well i have downloaded it,will try 2morrow..

 

Version number plus mem usage: see screenies. No BSOD's FYI

 

...and the other one:

 

Thanks,.. I have just installed the full release to check,... the RC4 was ver 4.0.960.6925(582)

Memory usage:-

 

looks really nice. sure it costs but meh

 

The main change with the 4.0 release (from the release candidates) is that it includes the ability to control access to Device/Physical Memory.

Fast user switching is not supported and Win9x/ME systems are only partially supported (Anti-Leak, Self Protection and Game Mode require Win2K/XP onwards).

As for an IDS, others have asked for this but as long as attacks are blocked, knowing what they were is of limited use (and it also raises the issue of false positives).

 

i would like to ask one thing.
Kaspersky's AV and outpost both have proactive defense and if we use it together than we will have to disable either of the two's proactive defense..

So,my question is which one is better to be used??

 

I have them both running along with ewido and KAV + Outpost Pro 4 do not have any problem.
So don't worry about any possible conflicts.

 

Legendkiller---You can use KAV/KIS and integrate Outpost Pro v.4 according to this site. http://www.kaspersky.com/faq?chapter=186528170&qid=192779758

I currently use KIS6 and am looking to integrate Outpost as well. Let's see how these 2 play with each other.

bubbadirect

 

In your opinion ,is it worth 9x/me users upgrading to this build?Ive read there are some improvements to the antispyware plugin but apart from this , i cant really see much to upgrade for.
tia
ellison

 

thanks guys for the link and help.

 

Just installed the latest v4 update and it runs much better.. Huge improvment over the 1st release.