KSSWare Extended IP Filter & Monitor

. Introduction

KSSWare Extended IP Filter & Monitor - a powerful firewall which can filter out
any IP packet, UDP packet, TCP packet, ICQ packet (by UIN), ICMP packet, and
can filter out any packets based on its content. The software is using standard
Windows 2000/XP/2003 filtering functions and consists of two main parts - a
filtering driver and a Graphic User Interface (GUI). The GUI has a built-in
powerful IP monitor which can monitor all IP traffic (source address,
destination address, protocol, speed, size, process name and main window title)
and create rules for its blocking. The process of installation of the software
is very simple. After GUI is loaded click in the menu "Configuration" -> "Driver" ->
"Install".

2. Features

- Flexible IP filter
- Flexible TCP filter with speed limit
- Flexible UDP filter
- Flexible ICQ UIN filter
- Flexible ICMP filter
- Flexible Content filter (examples for blocking HTTP-request, HTTP-answer,
POP3, SMTP, JPG, PNG, MP3, AVI, EXE, ZIP, RAR are included)
- Powerful IP Monitor with a filter
- Process name and main window title if available (Microsoft Windows XP and
higher)
- Black list
- Firewall Configuration Wizard
- Packets' statistics
- Log files (only when GUI is loaded)
- Installation and deinstallation are not required (except for the driver)
- Doesn't copy any files into system folders
- Standard Windows 2000/XP/2003 filtering API is used
- Support of all network devices
- x86 and x64 (AMD64) support
- Command-Line management (for more information run IPFilter.exe /?)
- High speed
- Freeware

3. Requirements

- Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003 for x86 or x64 (AMD64) systems
- .NET framework v2.0 or higher

4. History

- Version 1.0
* First release

- Version 1.1
* TCP filter: filtering by "sync flag" is changed to filtering by "connection
initiation"

- Version 1.2
* ICMP filter is added

- Version 1.3
* IP monitor is added
* Bug fixed: in some cases filter GUI could get the computer frozen

- Version 1.4
* Packet content filter is added

- Version 1.5
* Speed limit mode is added to TCP filter
* Current speed and average speed are added to IP monitor

- Version 1.6
* The product was rebuilt using .NET Framework 2.0
* Examples for blocking JPG, PNG, MP3, AVI, EXE, ZIP, RAR are added
* View filter for IP monitor is added

- Version 2.0
* Support of x64 (AMD64) is added
* TCP speed limit engine is improved

- Version 2.1
* IP monitor is improved
* Process name and main window title are added to IP monitor

- Version 2.2
* Some bugs are fixed
* GUI is modified
* IP monitor is improved
* Black list is added
* Firewall Configuration Wizard is added, which allows you to quickly and efficiently
create the rules of safe protection of your server and work station
* Import and export to text files are added

- Version 2.3
* Bug is fixed: driver was not loading black list after restart of the computer
* PID is added to IP monitor and log-files
* Command-Line management is added (for more information run IPFilter.exe /?)

- Version 2.4
* Bug is fixed: BSOD when applying the new rules or the new black-list too often
* 'Mirrored' option is added to IP4, TCP, UDP, ICMP and ICQUIN filters

- Version 2.5
* Some bugs are fixed in the GUI
* IP monitor is improved
* "Jump" action is added
* Import of the configuration files from command-line is added
* Option to fix indexes of the network interfaces is added
* Some TCP flags are added

5. Known issues

- Content filtering is applied only to incoming packets! This is the issue of
standard Windows filtering driver

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