Archives for: January 2007

GeSWall 2.6 Beta Revealed

01/28/07 Posted by geswall

GeSWall 2.6 Beta is released. Please contact our support if you would like to try it. What is new: 1. Windows Vista support. GeSWall works on Windows Vista 32bit now and we introduce 64bit version in the next GeSWall’s release. Stay tuned!… more »

Posted in Announces

Advanced Process Termination

01/14/07 Posted by geswall

Advanced Process Termination provides numerous options to terminate given processes. GeSWall enforces its policy by means of kernel mode driver and termination of the processes doesn’t impose a direct threat to GeSWall. However, it is a good test for the… more »

Posted in GeSWall's Security Tests

GeSWall 2.5.1 is Available

01/10/07 Posted by geswall

GeSWall 2.5.1 is a minor update that fixes several issues, including: - Integrity enforcement fix for the certain file operations which could truncate an existing file to zero size. Special thanks to Moonforest for reporting this issue. - McAfee Si… more »

Posted in Announces

Application Database update is issued

01/09/07 Posted by geswall

An application database update is issued for these applications: - Internet Explorer (web browsers), the fix for Java Runtime Environment JRE from sun.com - Geminisoft Pimmy (e-mail clients), application rules fix - Windows Live Messenger (Messenge… more »

Posted in Supported Applications

Network Shares Access

01/02/07 Posted by geswall

There is a known trick to bypass DropMyRights - using a network share on loop-back interface, e.g: ren \\localhost\c$\windows\system32\malware.exe cmd.exe That is limitation of remote impersonation. DropMyRights creates a restricted token which cann… more »

Posted in GeSWall's Security Tests