Kerio Personal Firewall 4.0.0 Beta 1

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Luuve

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I have tried several versions of v3 beta on my old Win98 system and they didn't get along so well. They caused so much problem started from booting, couple times I had to boot to safe mode in order to remove it.

I just downloaded v4 beta and may give it a try on the new built system running WinXP.
 
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scarecrow

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KPF 3 had certain issues on W9X- but ran fine on 32-bit Windows kernels. This new version features a new GUI style, which I'm still trying to digest.
 
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scarecrow

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Well... I don't lose my patience too easily with buggy betas, but this one is almost unusable. I think the betanews version is NOT official, but rather an internal KPF 4 pre-release for beta testers: It even downloaded Windows installer at startup, although the latest version was already present at the system! :p
I will wait for the next beta to decide if I jump to the 4.X train... and anyway the kerio site does NOT mention this release at all-yet.
 
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Luuve

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Thanks for the information about the beta version. Since I am pretty new to XP I think it's safed for me to wait a little longer to start messing around with beta and new apps.
 
zver

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Kerio 3 was working decent on my mashine,and 2.14 is the best firewall ever made...PERIOD!!!!!!!Installed version4 yesterday and gui sucks--back to 3 version....
 
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zver said:
and gui sucks...
Click to expand...
The GUI is not a real problem- if you toy with it a bit everything is there, albeit differently arranged.
The problem is the firewall itself: unstable, settings are not stored, advanced settings window crashes all the time...
I admit that the new GUI somehow reminds bad things (read: Zone Alarm pro), but that is all.
 
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Markbot

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I really like this software and the price can't be beat.

When I upgraded from 2.14 to 3 beta 6 I got an error message everytime I rebooted. So I uninstalled both versions (both 2.14 and 3b6 were listed in add/remove programs). Then reinstalled 3b6 and it is working fine now. Since then 2.15 came out and now 4 beta 2. I would like to try 4b2, but need upgrade instructions from 3b6 to 4b2. Any ideas?
 
RASTABT

RASTABT

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Markbot YOU can install over the top of v3. Or do what you have done so far by removing your current version then a clean install of this one...:)
And yes Kerio is very nice bit of software!
 
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Markbot

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@Rastabt
Is there a way to preserve the rules set that I have already rebuilt since 2.14? I really don't want to rebuild it again.

What is the name of the Yahoo group for this program?
 
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scarecrow

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Markbot: The best way to migrate from 3b6 to 4b2 is waiting for 4b3...
4b2 sux bigtime too- still lots of nasty bugs, mainly application level settings not being stored, the old "open port 80" bug coming back and several other peculiarities.
For me at least 3b6 works great.
 
RASTABT

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Sorry bro I had the understand that you had v3 installed.:( Doh!
Not sure has to your Q. has I had uninstall 2.14 then installed v3 just incase there might of been some problems... I'll check on the homepage and get back to ya sorry.
 
RASTABT

RASTABT

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@ scarecrow thanks for the feedback bro.
I'llwait for reports of a stable v4 B4 I install any beta v4 series.. v3.6 still rocking. :cool:
 
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Markbot

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Rasta,

I'm still on 3b6 for now. I meant to say I would like to preserve the rule set from 3b6 when I go to 4. Sorry for the confusion.
 
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