TinyWall - darmowy firewall

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Nowa wersja ogłoszona wczoraj przez Ultima

Hello Everybody!

Here are the fruits of my latest work. Changelog for 1.9.5 follows.

- Avoid unnecessary inbound rules while auto-learning
- Do not create firewall exceptions for local communication while auto-learning
- Profile updates for antivirus software
- Memory savings and faster rule merging in service
- Fix: Broken VPN support
- Fix: Accessability issues

The VPN fix has been long due but there are also some other interesting changes. First of all, the memory usage improvements are impressive in this build, I''ve managed to shave off almost 5MB of dynamic memory usage. Two other changes improve the security of auto-learned rules. First, inbound rules are only created if an app actually received an inbound connection request, otherwise it will be learned as outgoing only. This improves security of applications that act only as clients. Second, since Windows Firewall is incapable of filtering local-to-local connections anyway, TinyWall will not create exceptions anymore for applications whose both communication endpoints are on the local machine. This means applications will not get exceptions if they are not trying to get out of the machine even if they communicate over the network stack, which makes sense. This also improves security.

The last thing is, there has been some changes to improve support for accessability, like better support for screen readers, making sure that everything is accessible using keyboard-only, correcting tab-order and so on. The reason is, I''ve received note that unlike other firewalls, TinyWall can be used very well for example by blind people, but there were still a few things to be adjusted to make it even better in this respect. So I am now announcing that I intend not to forget these users and I will try to keep TinyWall accessible to them in the future.

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(bottom of page). If you are using 1.9.3 or newer you can just install the new one and it will update while keeping your settings. If you use a pre-1.9.3 version, be absolutely sure that you''ve uninstalled it first before installing this one. Starting from the *next* version, I am enabling automatic updates.

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