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[Ilya Rabinovich]

DefenseWall Personal Firewall is the world's first Sandbox Firewall built with innovative 'Adaptive Automatic Protection'.

DefenseWall Personal Firewall extends the power of DefenseWall HIPS based on the simple ‘trusted or untrusted’ system of protection. There is no struggling with firewall settings, user modes, ports, sockets or rules.

No Firewall or HIPS Learning Mode
No Setup of Ports and Sockets
No Unwanted Restarts
No Application Checksum Re-checks
Industry-minimum number of popup windows

Features:

Adaptive Automatic Protection
• For both Outbound and Inbound Firewall protection, there is no manual configuration or learning mode - just install on a clean system and you are ready to go! Like DefenseWall HIPS, Personal Firewall is engineered to provide outstanding protection with the average-novice user in mind.

Whitelisting - Simplified Program Setup
• Digitally signed files from trusted vendors will run from the protected "Download Areas" automatically 'As Trusted'.

Unauthorized System Restart Protection
• Malware or untrusted programs or processes may attempt system restart to take over your computer - DefenseWall will stop it – you will get a warning and have the opportunity to allow it or deny it.

Outbound Firewall
• DefenseWall Personal Firewall controls Untrusted Applications that are connecting to the Web and warns you if a program is not under the outbound rules. Trusted applications are free to go, but you can block their Internet access too, with functions that are very simple to use.

Inbound Firewall
• DefenseWall Personal Firewall automatically blocks open listening ports of all the Trusted processes. So, if you have anything that has to have their ports open, you just set it as Untrusted and that's it. The reason is simple- if this application has a vulnerability and got exploited, the circumstances can be coped by sandbox protection. If a computer is within domain, DefenseWall automatically opens 445, 135, 137,138,139 ports. This innovative "Adaptive Automatic Protection", allows you to forget about ports setup.

Also, DefenseWall Inbound Firewall supports manual ports installation mode.

Manual Mode: Standard Profiles for Advanced-Expert Use
• Direct Internet Connection
• Wireless Internet Connection
• Home/Work LAN

Profiles are preconfigured for each connection environment and Ports can be added or removed from the Inbound list. The Green Checkmark Icon indicates closed ports.

Ah, and did I mention the skinning is back?

Download link is here:
www.softsphere.com/files/DefenseWall_Personal_Firewall_v3_00.exe

20 December 2009- Beta 2 is just uploaded. Download link is the same.

Avira, Avast inbound issuses are fixed, added inbound connections attempts logging. Many minor issues are fixed.

21 December 2009- new Beta2 build is uploaded. It fixes several compatibility issues.

23 December 2009- new Beta2 build is uploaded. It fixes DrWeb SpiderMail and few other compatibility issues.

24 December 2009- new Beta2 build is uploaded. It improves few things added into the previous build.

24 December 2009- new Beta2 build is uploaded. It fixes "run FireFox as trusted" issue.

25 December 2009- new Beta2 build is uploaded. It fixes an issue with Eset Security.

26 December 2009- Beta3 is uploaded. It fixes many issues- smooth work with AVG, multiple WinAmp "load module" dialog boxes, improves "Add/Remove Programs" window displaying speed, covers one hole in the protection code (programming error)

1 January 2010- Beta4 is uploaded. Now on, DefenseWall's main modules are totally in Unicode. Test it carefully as, during migration process I could make errors with my code.

4 January 2010- new Beta4 build is uploaded. If fixes running Thunderbird "run as trusted" issues as well as loosing untrusted status on copy one.

13 January 2010- new Beta4 build is uploaded. If fixes few BSOD issues.

14 January 2010- Beta5 is uploaded. Now on, network shared folders are untrusted (with an option to switch it on and off), as well as network areas by default.

16 January 2010- new Beta5 build is uploaded. It fixed Bonjour services and Sunbelt Personal Firewall issues.

17 January 2010- new Beta5 build is uploaded. It fixed one BSOD issue and two defense bypass techniques.

22 January 2010- new Beta5 build is uploaded. It fixed few MS Office 2010 beta Click-and-run edition compatibility issues. Still have no idea how to protect Outlook's accounts there :(.

24 January 2010- new Beta5 build is uploaded. It, mostly, improves whitelisting. One security bypass technique is covered.

25 January 2010- new Beta5 build is uploaded. It polishes whitelisting scheme.

29 January 2010- new Beta5 build is uploaded. It copes very interesting fake AV auto-run scheme.

23 February 2010- Beta6 build is uploaded. It improves Automatic Adaptive Protection and UDP firewalling scheme.

[Killer22]

Awesome man
I'll try and comment back.

[virtumonde]

Awesome Ilya,been waiting for this for long.
2 quick observations i'm not sure if they are bugs or is it so by design.
1 On xp pro with DefenseWall and windows firewall on ,utorrent port checker says the port is closed.I have to disable inbound protection in DW to appear as green.
The firewall profile is adaptive automatic protection.How do i get open port and keep the inbound protection too?

2.I installed my file manager(directory Opus) normally as trusted,and even if i added it's folders under firewall (deny as trusted and untrusted) i had to reboot in order for the connections to be blocked.Is it normal like this?
With already installed programs the blocking rules seem to work without a reboot beeing needed.

[callisto]

Oh,..Non!Again blue skin!!!
Why the skin is Blue????????
All programs have a blue skin.....blue like most of others !
Almost all previous versions are blue and now the new Version 3 it is blue!

Edited by callisto, 05 December 2009 - 11:57 AM.

[Ilya Rabinovich]

1 On xp pro with DefenseWall and windows firewall on ,utorrent port checker says the port is closed.I have to disable inbound protection in DW to appear as green.

Because it's running trusted. "Adaptive Automatic Protection" do not allow trusted programs to have listening ports open. Move to untrusted.

2.I installed my file manager(directory Opus) normally as trusted,and even if i added it's folders under firewall (deny as trusted and untrusted) i had to reboot in order for the connections to be blocked.Is it normal like this?

Did you restart the application itself? DefenseWall (at least, currently) do not change settings for already running processes, only for the newly created.

[Ilya Rabinovich]

Why the skin is Blue????????

All the dwall_skin.dll project will be available for you to change skin colors the way you want it.

[Killer22]

Ilya,
looks like a great program.
but if i have inbound protection enabled, I have no internet access but if it is switched off, internet is back. How can I fix this?

Running XP Online Armor 3.5 Avira Antivir Premium with Defensewall 3

Edited by Killer22, 05 December 2009 - 12:01 PM.

[virtumonde]

Because it's running trusted. "Adaptive Automatic Protection" do not allow trusted programs to have listening ports open. Move to untrusted.

Yes it runned trusted ,i understand now.


Did you restart the application itself? DefenseWall (at least, currently) do not change settings for already running processes, only for the newly created.

No i did not.After reading your answer this became clear also.
All clear now.Thanks for fast reply

[Blackcat]

Hi Ilya,

I posted these questions over at Wilders;


Questions;

1. I assume it is recommended to switch off the Windows Firewall when running DPFW?

2. Any ideas whether this beta is compatible with Microsoft Security Essentials now?

3. This is a free upgrade to present license holders of DW?

Great work, Ilya

[callisto]

It is a normal?

[callisto]

Ilya,
looks like a great program.
but if i have inbound protection enabled, I have no internet access but if it is switched off, internet is back. How can I fix this?

Running XP Online Armor 3.5 Avira Antivir Premium with Defensewall 3

Why you use Online Armore together with DefenseWall?
One is enought!

[Killer22]

It is a normal?

I get the same message.

[s4u]

Interesting news.
I'd like to test it as well. where can I find a beta license?

[Killer22]

Ilya,
looks like a great program.
but if i have inbound protection enabled, I have no internet access but if it is switched off, internet is back. How can I fix this?

Running XP Online Armor 3.5 Avira Antivir Premium with Defensewall 3

Why you use Online Armore together with DefenseWall?
One is enought!

Ilya has already said that Defensewall with firewall will be able to run with any other 3rd party firewall.
I might dump Online Armor if defensewall if enough.

[Blackcat]

DWPF does not appear in the Firewall Window in the Security Centre.