Build 338/350
Personal Firewall
- Network mask support in Select Address dialogs
- Filtering of localhost packets in Rules creation dialog
- Filtering of transit packets in Rules creation dialog for better performance on the gateway PCs
- RAWSOCKET and non-IP protocols control
- Ability to allow/block ICMP type 10 (Router Solicitation)
- Presets for working in Windows Domain
- Support for creating rules for applications with non-English names
- Ability to add command line parameters in Rules->Action->Run application dialog
Component Control
- Option to accept one changed component for all applications at once
- Option to view all controlled components for particular application
- Option to rebuild component control database from scratch
Leaktests
- Protection against process memory space hijacking by malicious code (Copycat and Thermite leaktests)
- Prompt for launching a process in hidden window (former DisableNetworkForHiddenPrcoess option in outpost.ini)
- Password protection from unauthorized stopping/terminating of Outpost service
Logging
- Option to turn logging off without Outpost restart
- Export of log files in CSV format
- Log viewer shows records in real time
- Component control events are logged
Advanced Configuration Wizard
- Option to edit application rules while performing auto configuration during installation
- Option to build component control database during installation
- Option to run auto configuration similar to one run during installation when creating a new configuration
Miscellaneous Outpost improvements
- Access to Log Viewer can be password protected
- Faster IGMP and ICMP packet processing
- "What's new" is available" from the Help menu
- Warning if user exits Outpost or switches it to Disable mode
- "Show Logging" option added to tray shortcut menu
- Outpost does not require a restart after entering registration key
- All passwords used in Outpost are encrypted
- The date before license expiration is shown
- [Last Hosts] option in outpost.ini is no more logged
- Automatically switching to Block most policy after certain period of inactivity or screen saver activation
- Ability to select a policy for Background mode
Attack Detection plug-in
- Option to play sound when attack or port scanning is detected
- Option to unblock the IP that was blocked by Attack Detection plug-in after attack or port scanning
- Turn on and off detection of attacks of particular type
- Exclusion list of IPs from which port scanning would not be detected
- Exclusion list of ports to which port scanning would not be detected
- Customizing a weight of danger for port to trigger Port Scanning detection warning
- Customizing a weight of danger to trigger Port Scanning detection warning for Minimum, Normal and Paranoid mode
- Fine tuning of attack and scanning detection internal parameters
DNS Cache plug-in
- All requests to remote port 53 violating the DNS standards are blocked
- Ability to exclude host from being cached
Attachment Filter plug-in
- Non-English attachments now also can be renamed
- CLSID now also can be renamed
- Attachment extensions are shown in Properties dialog
Advertisement blocking plug-in
- Ability to download list of keywords from Agnitum forum (AGNIS list)
- Import and export of the settings
Active Content plug-in
- Referrer blocking on site-per-site basis
- Prompt option for referrers
- Import and export of the settings
Content plug-in
- Option to exclude some sites from being blocked by plug-in
- Import and export of the settings
Fixes (only Major are listed)
- BSOD on Hyper threading PCs
- Log Cleaner crashed and slowed performance
- Different kind of system freezes including freeze due to alert on blocked attack, freeze during standby, freeze caused by malformed e-mails
- Incorrect service registration distorting TCP protocol performance
- Memory leaks due to IGMP flood
- Troubles in rules settings for applications located not on hard disk (floppy, CD, etc.)
- Outpost crashed during Windows shutdown
- NetBIOS counters now show correct number of sent / received bytes
- Blocking of access to specific sites
- Errors while creating exclusions lists for Ad blocking and Active content plug-ins
