Showing posts with label firewall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firewall. Show all posts

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Jetico Personal Firewall 2 beta


Jetico is well known personal firewall manufacture and scores very high in firewall tests. Their firewall is not for the average Joe, but if you always use expert and advanced modes this is your firewall. Being a free product is a big plus too.

Jetico Personal Firewall (JPF) was first released over three years ago and the second version entered public beta just before 6 month. From the number of the releases of the beta and after reading the release notes, it looks now safe to install and test the beta.

Those who decide to test the firewall can use dedicated forums for version 2 to report bugs, get support and use the knowledge base.

Version 2 discontinued the support for Windows 9x/Me, so if you are using Windows XP and above give JPF2 a try test.

Monday, March 12, 2007

Beta Testing Kaspersky Lab Products


Kaspersky Lab is a well known developer, producer and distributor of information security solutions. Kaspersky Lab provides products that protect information from viruses, hackers and spam for home users and enterprises and offer consulting services and technical support.

From their site:
"Founded in 1997, Kaspersky Lab is an international information security software vendor. Kaspersky Lab is headquartered in Moscow, Russia and has regional offices in the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Japan, China, Korea, Romania and the United States. Further expanding the company's reach is its large partner network comprising over 500 companies globally.

Our products are certified by West Coast Labs and regularly receive awards from leading IT publications and testing labs. In 2003 we received the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status for Security Solutions. Kaspersky Lab is also a proud partner of SUSE and Red Hat. Experts from Kaspersky Lab are active in IT associations such as CARO (Computer Antivirus Research Organization) and ICSA (International Computer Security Association).
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Kaspersky Lab has a dedicate page for beta testing http://www.kaspersky.com/beta and also forums for each product that currently in beta testing.

When you register only your Full Name, Company and Email are required. Also you should select whether you want to participate in quality assurance surveys or not.
After filling the form you are sent to their FTP server to grab the beta product installation and the activation key.

Kaspersky Lab doesn't promise any benefits for participants in the beta testing, nor the ability to use the beta product for the infinite time. All the programs in beta stage stage are available for testing. The most popular products are the Kaspersky Anti-Virus and Kaspersky Internet Security.