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Kerio WinRoute Firewall™ is a corporate gateway firewall for small and medium-sized businesses. Equipped with VPN, anti-virus, web filtering, Internet monitoring and more, Kerio WinRoute Firewall provides a comprehensive network management and security solution.
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Release history

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  • Version 6.4.2 - January 24, 2008
    + Added support for Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)(February 13, 2008)
    * New McAfee anti-virus engine version 5200. All users are encouraged to upgrade. From February 1, 2008 onwards, there will be no further Anti-Virus definition files (DAT files) quality testing with the older engine.
    - Live.com was not recognized properly as a search engine
    - Fixed occasional false positive P2P detection on legitimate DNS traffic
    - Fixed Active Directory mapping timeouts causing delays in user-related operations, authentication, etc...
    - Fixed traffic policy rules with unresolvable host names causing blocking of valid DHCP service requests

  • Version 6.4.1 - December 13, 2007
    * Connection limit now applied on incoming and outgoing connections separately
    - Fixed bug in POP3 inspector causing certain emails being blocked
    - Fixed engined crash in on-demand dialing if a certain configuration was imported from KWF 6.3
    - Fixed proxy server sometimes not requiring authentication for HTTPS pages
    - Fixed engine was not started automatically after clean installation on Windows Vista
    - Fixed inability to login to the web interface for users without the 'view statistics' right
    - Fixed firewall traffic sometimes being accounted to random hosts
    - Fixed broken configuration of automatic hangup after inactivity (please check your settings after upgrade to 6.4.1)
    - Fixed displaying of national characters in alerts
    - Fixed eTrust plug-in

  • Version 6.4.0 - September 17, 2007
    + User activity logs in StaR
    + Printer ready version of StaR
    + Improved overall throughput performance
    + NAT was made more traversal friendly for VoIP applications
    + Added support for popular dynamic DNS services
    + Added URL based web exclusions from StaR
    + Added support for weekly quotas
    + Added possibility to select users' preferred language

  • Version 6.3.1 - May 30, 2007
    * link to Login Page re-added to Deny Page
    * Application Layer Gateway is now detected as conflicting service (it caused FTP connections to fail)
    * 'Valid On' Traffic Rule setting now always affect all existing connections
    * improvements in Web Interface layout in Safari
    - VPN traffic may be dropped by Anti-spoofing on server operating systems
    - fragmented packets were not handled correctly under certain
    circumstances (some connections were blocked)
    - antivirus process sometimes refused to use correctly licensed Avast
    - antivirus process could crash with NOD32
    - fixed crash caused by malformed StaR database file
    - RFC non-compliant e-mail could become corrupted by SMTP inspector
    - fixed accounting of FTP traffic through proxy server
    - traffic histograms were missing in Administration Console
    - redirect to website after successful login sometimes failed
    - stability of the Administration Console was improved
    - it was not possible to enable Clientless SSL-VPN user right in Administration Console without Kerio VPN installed

  • Version 6.3.0 - March 29, 2007
    Major new features:
    + Statistics and reporting (StaR)
    * Improved overall performance
    + Support for 64 bit systems
    + Support for Windows Vista
    * Improved P2P Eliminator

  • Version 6.2.3 - October 12, 2006
    + added support for Internet Explorer 7 to Kerio Clientless SSL-VPN
    - fixed corruption of configuration file when incorrect MAC address was entered in DHCP server configuration
      (This caused further changes to configuration to be mysteriously lost after reboot.)
    - fixed crash when a malformed DNS response is received
    - fixed crash when more than 3 custom forward DNS servers were specified
    - McAfee now works even if its subscription is expired (without updates though)
    - further fixes to video streaming (Amazon Music Sampler)
    - fixed malformed reverse DNS queries being incorrectly resolved to valid names
    - fixed missing error messages on unresponsive WWW sites
    - fixed "user transfer quota exceeded" alert being sent too often
    - fixed NOD32 plugin not working for SSL-VPN file transfers

  • Version 6.2.2 - August 7, 2006
    + added TCP MSS altering to work around nonworking PMTU discovery due to blocked ICMP
    (this typically fixes nonworking HTTPS pages on PPPoE connections)
    * Administration Console now remembers last view in IP Address Groups, DHCP Scopes and Leases, HTTP URL Groups, Time Ranges screens
    * cache memory size configuration value has been removed (the best value is now auto-detected)
    * the timeout for half-open TCP connections has been decreased
    - fixed deadlock in UPnP service if an interface goes up or down
    - in SSL-VPN downloaded files are now forced to be saved to disk instead of opened in IE
    - fixed creating of huge antivirus temporary files even though size limit was configured
    - fixed occasional WinRoute service crashes during system shutdown
    - fixed crashing when loading user configuration where no user has administrative rights
    - fixed opened Administration Console aborting normal system shutdown
    - fixed problem with temporary files occasionally remained on disk after the antivirus scanning
    - fixed a potential bug that antivirus process(es) won't start during WinRoute initialization
    - fixed national characters handling in the administrative password dialog in the installation wizard
    - fixed loading of web pages on nonstandard TCP ports when going through multiple proxies
    - fixed nonworking CNN pipeline stream videos
    - fixed possibility to remove some interface statistics for some interfaces
    - fixed IP addresses for hostnames in the traffic policy not being updated often enough
    - fixed old half-closed FTP connections through the firewall sometimes remaining open for very long times
    - antivirus scanning failures are now logged into security log
    - fixed client FTP connections not being correctly reset if virus was found during the transfer.
    - fixed FTP inspector could parse certain (illegal) responses incorrectly causing the affected connection to hang
    - fixed bandwidth limiter behaving incorrectly if the IP address group selected there was deleted
    - fixed inability to send mail through certain rare servers if TLS transfers are denied by WinRoute
    - fixed possible file corruption during antivirus scanning on chunked HTTP connections
    - fixed nonworking quarantine storage of infected files found in FTP transfers
    - fixed changes to the default SSL web interface TCP port of 4081 not being applied until restart of WinRoute
    - user manually imported from AD now have their email addresses imported (affects only newly imported users)
    - fixed file and folder icons failures to load when browsing FTP via the HTTP proxy server

    Kerio VPN Client 1.2.2
    - fixed route to remote network being added to system even if it already exists

  • Kerio VPN Client 1.2.1 - May 4, 2006
    - fixed conflict with MS Firewall Client that caused OS crash

  • Version 6.2.1 - May 3, 2006
    - fixed service crash in email protocol inspectors
    - fixed occasional high CPU usage of the service
    - fixed handling of HTTP/0.9 responses
    (this caused false positives of binary characters in HTTP headers)
    - fixed ignoring traffic policy rules when host names were used
    - fixed nonworking Windows Update via proxy server
    - fixed monthly rotation of logs
    * denial pages no longer use SSL
    (this caused unexpected SSL certificate warnings in browsers)
    * improved handling of ICMP destination unreachable messages
    (this sometimes caused VPN tunnels to stop working)
    + added ability to select custom port for SMTP relay server

  • Version 6.2.0 Patch 1 - April 10, 2006
    - fixed service stability issue

  • Version 6.2.0 - March 23, 2006
    + Bandwidth Limiter
    + Dual anti-virus
    + Product registration from the administration console
    + VPN Client now supports 64bit Windows

  • Version 6.1.4 Patch 2 - January 19, 2006
    - fixed possible hang and 100% CPU consumption while browsing the web

  • Version 6.1.4 Patch 1 - January 5, 2006
    + added protection against the recent Windows metafiles vulnerability
    * updated antivirus plugin for Eset NOD32
    - fixed DoS caused by improper data handling in HTML content filtering
    - fixed DoS when too long strings are fetched from Active Directory
    - fixed engine's inability to start due to improper loading of statistics
    - fixed HTML content filtering was sometimes incorrectly activated even if disabled
    - fixed application of antivirus scanning rules to certain file names
    - improved RTSP protocol inspector compatibility with certain servers
    - fixed removal of custom service could sometimes disable related traffic policy rules

  • Version 6.1.4 - January 5, 2006
    + TCP sequence numbers awareness
    * ICSA certificate renewed

  • Version 6.1.3 Patch 1 - November 16, 2005
    - fixed serious bug in authentication of Active Directory users

  • Version 6.1.3 - November 10, 2005
    - fixed possible crash when trying to receive streams from certain RTSP servers
    - fixed possible hang when querying AD in some circumstances
    - fixed memory leak in Active Directory mapping
    - fixed filter errors in Active Directory queries
    - fixed possibile successful authentication of users with disabled accounts
    - fixed local database users with "@" character in their login name were not able to login
    - fixed detection of RRAS demand-dial interfaces
    - fixed statistics sometimes showing negative/incorrect values
    - bookmarks on the SSL-VPN page are now correctly sorted
    - NTLM is now disabled for Opera browser
    * the MAC address/vendor database has been updated to be more accurate
    * Windows Firewall service is now disabled during the installation due to persisting conflicts

  • Version 6.1.2 - September 7, 2005
    + Russian translation of all user interfaces excluding Administration Console
    + Admin console now warns if a new traffic policy could disconnect it
    + All domain controllers may now be detected automatically
    * Windows Update HTTP rule was changed to work with current Windows Update
    - Wrong HTTP rules were sometimes applied immediatelly after user login
    - Possible crash after deleting user's statistics
    - Possible crash when in lack of system resources
    - Certain combination of routes to VPN tunnels could cause 100% CPU
    - Changing 'VPN Tunnel' to 'VPN Clients' in Traffic Policy could corrupt configuration
    - Scripts/ActiveX filtering often corrupted pages
    - Newly created group could be assigned wrong rights
    - Nested AD groups didn't work properly for primary groups
    - Account used to access AD database did not suppor non-ASCII characters
    - Quota counter was is not reset at the end of its time interval
    - Quota was not applied immediatelly when reached, only after several seconds
    - Mail temporary files were sometimes left on disk
    - Cannot open folder in SSL-VPN if its name contained an ampersand (&)
    - Admin console runtime error when deleting address group
    - "Error: function called with invalid parameters" when killing connections
    - Changes in configuration of users were not logged into config log
    - HTTP log did not log username for all requests
    - P2P alert message sometimes showed incorrect ports
    - Gzip encoding for HTTP servers in LAN was always turned off
    - Parent proxy password was unencrypted in configuration
    - VPN was not able to deliver very small fragmented UDP packets
    - Hibernation was not allowed even if VPN is not installed
    - Sometimes connection failover alert might not be sent
    - Alert messages in Spanish and Slovak were displayed as plain text only
    - Update checker didn't indicate failures

    Changes in Kerio VPN Client:
    + Russian translation
    - Autoconnect only works for the first server in advanced mode
    - Taskbar notification area messages were incorrectly formatted

  • Version 6.1.1 - July 14, 2005
    - fixed possible hang when hostnames are used in policies
    - fixed possible crash when changing interface name
    - fixed traffic policy corruption with certain interface names
    - fixed possible temporary hang while sending messages to users
    - fixed authentication of users when installed on a domain controller
    - fixed Active Directory mapping problems with nested groups
    - fixed Active Directory mapping problems with cross-domain group memership
    - fixed authentication of users that are members of groups with national characters in names

  • Version 6.1.0 - June 23, 2005
    Major new features:
    + Transparent user mapping in Active Directory domains
    + Support for multiple Active Directory domains
    + Kerio Clientless SSL-VPN
    (web-based secure access to network shares in LAN)
    + Customizable routing configuration for VPN tunnels
    + Spanish localization

  • Version 6.0.11 - April 7, 2005
    - fixed possible crash in RTSP protocol inspector
    - fixed possible crash on systems with more than 64 network interfaces
    - fixed several bugs in statistics calcullation
    - fixed incorrect logging of broadcast packets in anti-spoofing
    - fixed several issues in the remote administration protocol

  • Version 6.0.10 - March 22, 2005
    - fixed possible crash when establishing / closing VPN connection (error 10038)
    - fixed possible hang of WinRoute service when changing SSL certificate for VPN server
    - fixed minor bugs in VPN server
    - fixed resource leak in SMTP protocol inspector with unconfigured relay (error 10035)
    - fixed collision with running ICF service on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
    - fixed problem with setting user rights for installation directory on startup
    - fixed problem with DNS names in traffic rules and address groups
    - fixed crash caused by Avast module if it was simultaneusly used in both KWF and KMS
    - several minor improvements / bug fixes in SMTP protocol inspector
    - several minor bug fixes in Administration Console
    + protection of firewall host against Land attack packets
    * improved antivirus scanning of files being download using download managers

  • Version 6.0.9 - December 9, 2004
    - fixed posibility to poison DNS cache
    - fixed possible CPU/memory DoS in SMTP inspector
    - reduced access rights to WinRoute's directory
    - fixed handling of HEAD method in HTTP proxy server
    - fixed bad date in file names quarantine directory
    - blocking and logging of P2P traffic is now more accurate
    - invalid domain name in NT import no longer display local users
    - administration console now checks passwords for maximum length
    - administration console now behaves correctly if connection to the engine is lost
    - fixed up&down arrow buttons in Antivirus/HTTP scanning rules
    - transferred data for multimedia streams are now displayed correctly
    * improved logging of ISS orange filter categorization failures
    * removed SMTP NOTIFY extension from alert emails
    + SCCP (Cisco Skinny) protocol inspector now correctly handles conferrence calls
    + added ability to highlight certain lines of logs
    + support for hibernation (if VPN is not installed)

  • Version 6.0.8 - November 4, 2004
    - fixed nonfunctional user accounts that were imported from WinRoute Pro 4.x in the past

  • Version 6.0.7 - November 4, 2004
    * passwords for local users are now stored using stronger encryption
    * workaround for strange behavior of IE back button when dropping HTTP
      requests (e.g. ad-blocking HTTP rule is enabled)
    - fixed some HTTP and FTP rules not working randlomly
    - fixed non-working HTTP and Web log in upgraded installations
    - fixed FTP handling when configured to use parent proxy
    - VPN routes marked as 'unknown' no longer remain in the routing table
    - fixed possibility to edit int16 type options in DHCP server
    - fixed support for more than 255 routes in VPN
    - fixed crash of administration console in Status/Interfaces screen
    - actual traffic is now displayed correctly in statistics
    - fixed character coding in slovak version of web interface

  • Version 6.0.6 - October 5, 2004
    + HTTP, FTP, SMTP and POP3 insplectors now check JPEG files against the recent GDIPLUS.DLL vulnerability
    * Cobion OrangeFilter has been renamed to "ISS OrangeWeb Filter", functionality remains the same
    - fixed hanging of WinRoute service in DNS resolver
    - zero quotas are no longer ignored
    - fixed editing of inbound policy in the traffic wizard
    - alert whan hanging up failover RAS line now displays line name correctly
    - fixed blocked communication after boot if Windows Firewall is detected on Windows XP SP2
    - fixed handling of messages in SIP protocol inspection

  • Version 6.0.5 - September 22, 2004
    + VPN clients can now be configured with custom IP routes
    + VPN clients can now be assigned fixed IP addresses
    + resizeable traffic histograms
    * improved routing table screen in administration console
    - fixed conflict with 3rd party applications that install custom layered service providers
    - fixed boot problem on Windows 2000
    - fixed handling of emails sent as attachment
    - fixed transfer rate bug in traffic histograms
    - fixed automatic login for IP address groups
    - denying of unscannable or corrupted files now works correctly
    - fixed blinking of text in logs
    - SSL certificates with national characters are now displayed correctly
    - fixed false installer complaint about WinRoute Pro being installed

  • Version 6.0.4 - August 19, 2004
    - fixed dropping of NAT connections when user logs in or out

  • Version 6.0.3 - August 17, 2004
    + support for Windows Security Center in Windows XP SP2
    - fixed incorrect handling of TLS-secured POP3 and SMTP
    - dates in alert emails are now properly formated
    - traffic rules with interface source no longer permit packets from firewall
    - fixed file name matching in ftp policy when using MS IE as client
    - "Error: function called with invalid parameters" no longer appears when clearing a log

  • Version 6.0.2 - August 10, 2004
    + possibility to specify file size limit for antivirus
    + possibility to duplicate rule in HTTP/FTP policy
    + firewall can be excluded from quota actions
    * address group can be used for user automatic login
    * several minor improvements in administration console
    - fixed several bugs in SMTP protocol inspector and antivirus
    - fixed memory leak if DNS forwarder was disabled
    - fixed non working proxy if DNS forwarder was not configured
    - fixed crash when removing DHCP scope exclusion
    - fixed bug in SIP inspector
    - fixed minor bug in IRC protocol inspector
    - installer sometimes failed to update Kerio VPN Adapter driver and returned error 0x80070103 - fixed
    - Kerio VPN adapter sometimes lost it's primary IP address - fixed
    - authentication method for user imported manually from NT domain is now correctly set
    - fixed non working automatic login from firewall host

    Changes in Kerio VPN Client since 1.0.0:
    - configuration was not saved sometimes - fixed
    - "SSL error 0/5" during connection establishment replaced with more specific message

  • Version 6.0.1 - June 23, 2004
    - fixed 100% CPU ussage on Windows servers with DNS system service enabled
    - fixed DNS forwarder on Windows Server 2003 (error 4507:10013)
    - fixed handling of STLS command in POP3 protocol inspector
    - proxy server now works if DNS forwarder is disabled
    - proxy server now does not always require NTLM authentication
    - authenticating via proxy server no longer sometimes ends with a blank page
    - VPN server no longer stops working when the system is under heavy load
    - deleting interface no longer changes traffic rules which refer it to 'any'
    - fixed crash of administration console in interface statistics
    - fixed ability to edit network interfaces when VPN is not installed
    - fixed disappearing of settings in the AD/NT authentication screen
    - fixed wrong sorting of antivirus rules for HTTP/FTP
    - log rotation is no longer grayed out when set to keep 0 files
    - the number of consumed licenses is now displayed also for trial license

  • Version 6.0.0 - June 7, 2004
    + Integrated client/server and server-to-server VPN solution
    + Alerts and notifications
    + Antivirus protection for emails (POP3 and SMTP)
    + Improved realtime user monitoring and traffic statistics
    + P2P Eliminator - universal P2P blocking
    + Support for VisNetic Antivirus Plug-in 4



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Antivirus control cleans HTTP, FTP, SMTP & POP3 traffic.
Surf protection prevents users from accessing inappropriate websites.
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Understand how employee use the Internet through instant reports.
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