Once a license for Kerio Personal Firewall is purchased, the product must be registered. Once the registration is completed, all features including those which are not available in the free edition are enabled (see chapter 3.1. Limited Free Edition).
Kerio Personal Firewall can be registered in the user interface of the firewall or at Kerio Technologies Website.
Notes:
For personal and non-commercial purposes, Kerio Personal Firewall is free and registration is not required. After 30 days from the installation, Kerio Personal Firewall starts to behave as a limited version — see chapter 3.1. Limited Free Edition.
For detailed information on licensing policy, refer to Kerio Technologies Website (http://www.kerio.com/).
If a direct connection to the Internet is available to the Kerio Personal Firewall's host, registration can be done through the firewall's user interface.
To view license and subscription information, go to the Licence tab under Overview.
- Limited free edition before expiration of the trial period
The trial period expires 30 days after the first installation of the product on a particular host. During this period, all features of the product are available even without a license being purchased.
Basic information about the product are provided in the Product section. Click to run registration wizard (see chapter 3.3. Registration wizard).
Number of days left to expiration of the trial period is provided in the License section.
- Limited free edition after expiration of the trial period
If the product is not registered by the end of the 30-days trial period, it is switched into the free, but limited edition. This means that some features of the firewall are not available any longer (for details, refer to chapter 3.1. Limited Free Edition).
Basic information about the product are provided in the Product section. Click to run registration wizard (see chapter 3.3. Registration wizard).
The License informs users that the product currently operates in the unregistered limited version.
- Licensed version
Once Kerio Personal Firewall is registered, all features are available without any limitation. The License provides detailed information on the current license.
The button in the Product section is disabled.
The License section provides information about the current lincense number, date of the license expiration and date of the last free update (subscription expiration date and time). Click to register the purchase number to prolong the subscription. Click the button to run corresponding sections if the registration wizard (see chapter 3.3. Registration wizard).
The Registered to section provides information about the company or the person which the product is registered to. This information can be modified. The Company / Name and the items cannot be edited (subject of the registration cannot be changed).
Kerio Personal Firewall can be also registered at Kerio Technologies Website (http://www.kerio.com/, section eShop / License Registration). This registration method can be used even if the Kerio Personal Firewall host cannot connect to the Kerio Technologies' registration server (e.g. if the communication is blocked by a network firewall).
Insert your registration number obtained against purchase of the
product and your subscription number into a corresponding form. If numbers
specified are valid, a corresponding license key (the
license.key file) will be created. Download this file and
save it into the license directory under Kerio
Personal Firewall
(C:\Program Files\Kerio\Personal Firewall
4\license by default).
All features of the product will be available upon the next start of the Personal Firewall Engine service.