The Jetico Personal Firewall software allows the user:
• Protect computer from both inbound hackers' attacks from network as well as from unwished network access attempts performed by malicious software.
• Choose a pre-defined Security Policy.
• Edit existing Security Policy.
• Create own Security Policy (i.e. the firewall rule set configuration).
• Monitor running applications that access network.
• Monitor selected/all the network packets as well as selected network events.
Operating Systems: 32/64 bit - Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2008 Server, 2003 Server, 2000

New features in Jetico Personal Firewall v.2:
System-related
• Jetico Personal Firewall v2 runs as privileged Windows service. It can protect computer before user logon.
• Native support for Windows XP Fast User Switching and Terminal Services.
• Jetico Personal Firewall supports Access Control Lists for all main functions. Administrator can configure ACL to grant access to particular firewall functions for any user or group.
• Windows XP Service Pack 2 Security Center support.

User interface
• Improved rule editing interface.
• New popup message. The new look for popup dialog is presented. Popup message text and rule creation options can be modified.
• Firewall variables formerly controlled by Configuration Wizard, are integrated into main application window.
• Language file support for easy localization. All translatable words and phrases are taken from single UTF-8 encoded text file.

Configuration
• New XML-based open configuration file format. Detailed documentation is available upon request.
• The new version maintains single protected firewall configuration for all users.
• Simplified controls for configuration.
• New hash handling scheme. Separate table for hash checking.
• Each firewall filtering layer has own root table.
• New automatic variables (per-connection) for local connections are supported.

Firewall rules
• Rules support lists of parameters where possible.
• IP rules support IP address ranges.
• Low level protocol rules support filtering by MAC address.
• Application rules have events for direct and indirect access to network. Indirect access details are also available.
• New module for hash checking created.
• Application, Process attack and Hash checking rules support wildcards in file paths.

Logging subsystem
• Log entries can be associated with rule.
• Firewall can create rule based on log information.
• New WELF-compatible text log format. WELF is supported by many log analyzers.
• Improved log control.

Homepage - http://www.jetico.com