Outpost Firewall Pro provides a superior arsenal of defense against PC infiltration. Outpost ensures your online security with solid protection against all Internet-borne threats. Outpost is the first personal firewall developed with Open Architecture. It is also the first personal firewall that supports plug-ins. Sample plug-ins are included to show how this revolutionary technology can easily be employed for such tasks as Intrusion Detection, Advertisement Blocking, Content Filtering, E-mail Guard, and Privacy Control. It is equipped with every feature a personal firewall should have. It is the most functional firewall in the world. It supports all the latest security techniques and features such as: Full Stealth Mode, Anti-Leak, and MD5 Authentication.

Being online is fraught with dangers: Internet worms, spyware agents, Trojan horses, hijackers and more can wreak havoc, causing anything from slow performance to system crashes to full-blown identity theft. And to provide you with the kind of protection you need in these days of cyberthieves and online extortionists, your firewall must be able to monitor all inbound and outbound traffic and protect you from any unauthorized intrusion by rendering your PC invisible to anything that you haven’t authorized to see it.

What you get:
* Advanced firewall for secure connections
* Antispyware to keep your PC spyware-free
* Host protection to block zero-day threats
* Web control to protect your PC from web-borne threats

Benefits:
• Safety on the Internet. The two-way firewall stops inappropriate or malicious access to your computer from both internal (LAN) and external (Internet) sources. As a frontline defense, it prevents malware from spreading or “phoning home”, providing protection against hackers, loss of personal data, unknown malware, and unauthorized program activity.
• Preemptive threat protection. Outpost’s Host Protection module monitors how programs interact to protect your system against high-level security breaches and has passed all well-known leaktests to prevent unauthorized transmission of information from your PC.
• No more spyware! Eliminate spyware with Outpost’s dedicated antispyware utility. Regular updates and always-on monitoring ensure that spyware cannot activate and cause damage to your data or divert your applications.
• Secure web surfing. The versatile Web Control module safeguards you against the Internet’s darker side. It steers you away from websites infected with drive-by downloads, prevents the inadvertent disclosure of personal information, limits your exposure to potentially unsafe web properties, and keeps your identity private.
• Bulletproof self-defense. Outpost cannot be deactivated by targeted attacks, ensuring continuity of protection.
• Power without complexity. Whether you’re a security novice or expert, you can easily configure Outpost Firewall Pro to meet your needs. Thanks to automated and context-sensitive help, the firewall can learn how to handle alerts and make decisions for you, so you can focus on what you want to do, and leave the security to Outpost!

Supported platforms: 32- and 64-bit Windows (Vista, XP, Server 2003), Windows 2000 (SP3 and above).

Changes in Outpost Firewall Pro 2009 (build 6.5.2355.316.0597), 1 July 2008:
The following improvements are introduced:
* Security:
o Blockpost plug-in functionality (ability to restrict traffic from specified IPs)
o New SmartScan2 technology (storage of status cache files information in a single file, considerable performance improvement)
o Keyloggers' control by Host Protection for x86 systems
o Detecting files with NTFS-encrypted content and/or with the System: Deny Full Control privilege
o The ability to scan remote folders is added

* Ease of use:
o New customizable process tree in Network Activity/Process Activity logs
o Log Viewer improvements (table form, filtering, etc.)
o Main window improvements (protection status, switching between Simple/Expert views)
o Improved settings (redesigned Anti-Leak and Web Control settings dialogs, integrated Application Rules dialog)
o Improved Online Activity logging
o Ability to disable logging completely
o Alerts on rules creation in the Auto-Learn mode

The following issues are resolved (only significant ones are listed):
* Error during installation (code 14001)
* Error during update (code 101)
* Network connections were blocked after installation on the computer with Avast installed
* If installing over a previous version, password from the previous configuration was not accepted
* Issues with blocking GZIP
* Update period was expired with the valid key/in trial mode
* User interface settings inconsistency in compatibility mode
* Entertainment mode settings were not preserved
* Blocked traffic while working with virtual machines
* Issues while detecting malware in a hosts file (file was deleted, possible crash)
* Applications located on removable disks sometimes inherited network access rules from other applications
* EVE Monitor data were blocked
* Outpost prevented system restore point creation under Windows Vista
* Several most commonly reported crashes
* More minor issues