Kerio Personal Firewall 4.2
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Kerio Personal Firewall 4.2

User's Guide

Kerio Technologies

Printing Date: June 29, 2005

This guide provides detailed description on the Kerio Personal Firewall, version 4.2.0. All additional modifications and updates reserved.

For current product version, check http://www.kerio.com/kpf.

This product includes the following open-source libraries:

libiconv

Libiconv converts from one character encoding to another through Unicode conversion.

Author: Bruno Haible

OpenSSL

Toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols.

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/).

zlib

Zlib is a general purpose data compression library.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. Kerio Personal Firewall 4.2
1.2. System Requirements
1.3. Conflicting Software

2. Installation

2.1. Installation, Upgrade and Uninstallation
2.2. Initial Configuration
2.3. Update Checks

3. Product Registration and Licensing Policy

3.1. Limited Free Edition
3.2. Product registration
3.3. Registration wizard

4. Firewall Components and Basic Control Features

4.1. Kerio Personal Firewall Components
4.2. Icon on the Systray

5. Firewall Behavior and Interaction with Users

5.1. Firewall Behavior
5.2. Connection Alert (unknown traffic detection)
5.3. Starting/Replacing/Launching other application Dialog
5.4. Host Intrusions Alerts
5.5. Alert Dialog Window (alerts on events)

6. Firewall Configuration

6.1. Configuration Dialog
6.2. Remote Administration
6.3. Preferences

7. Network Security

7.1. How the Firewall Policy is Applied
7.2. Rules for Applications
7.3. Network Security Predefined Rules
7.4. Trusted Area
7.5. Network security Advanced settings
7.6. Boot time protection
7.7. Detection of new network interfaces
7.8. Checking of dialed telephone numbers

8. Advanced Packet Filter

8.1. Packet Filter Rules
8.2. IP Groups

9. Internal Firewall Rules

9.1. Internal Network Traffic Rules
9.2. System Security Rules
9.3. Rules for AVG components

10. Intrusion Detection

11. Network Intrusions Prevention System (NIPS)

11.1. NIPS Settings

12. Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS)

12.1. HIPS configuration

13. Behavior Blocking

13.1. General Rules
13.2. Application Rules

14. Web Content Filtering

14.1. The Ad Blocking tab
14.2. The Privacy tab
14.3. The Exceptional sites tab (exceptions for individual servers)

15. Status Information

15.1. Connections and Open Ports Overview
15.2. Statistics

16. Logs

16.1. Logs Viewing
16.2. Logs Context Menu
16.3. Log Options
16.4. Network Log
16.5. NIPS Log
16.6. HIPS Log
16.7. Behavior Log
16.8. Web Log
16.9. Debug, Error, Warning Logs

Glossary

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		Chapter 1. Introduction