Agnitum's Outpost Firewall Pro 3.0 delivers even more protection against spyware and hacker attacks along with improved performance, control and usability.
The following features are introduced:
- Real-time spyware protection monitors and blocks every attempt by malware to harm your computer.
- Spyware On-Demand Scanner lets you check your system for spyware threats to identify and remove them from your computer.
- ID Block prevents specific personal data leaks from occurring on your computer.
- Attack Detection plug-in now detects and averts particular Ethernet attacks such as IP spoofing, ARP scanning, ARP flood and others, protecting your system from invasions on a local network and more Internet attacks providing even more solid protection against external threats.
- Improved Component Control monitors the more vulnerable locations and files to decrease the number of pop-up prompts that demand your attention.
- The Smart Advisor provides additional information on each Outpost Firewall Pro event and gives recommendations so users are more confident in their decisions.
- New Startup Wizard allows performing quick initial configuration of Outpost Firewall Pro after installation.
- Our feedback service lets you report Outpost Firewall Pro security issues to our support service directly from the program.
The following issues are fixed (only significant ones are listed):
- 'Allow/Block Once' commands logic was changed. All data from specified local ports to specified remote ports and addresses is allowed/blocked during a single communication.
- Subnet mask and wildcards ('*') can be correctly used in editing dialogs for IP address lists.
- Rules creation for FTP DATA is fixed. If your computer was set up as an Internet Connection Sharing gateway, access to FTP servers could have been blocked if using FTP active mode.
Besides, a lot of stability and usability improvements are performed.
