Kerio Technologies

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Kerio Technologies is a software company in San Jose, CA developing Internet security software.

In 2001 Kerio Technologies was formed [ [http://www.kerio.com/media_factsheet.html Kerio Media Factsheet] ] , and on 11 September, 2001 Kerio Technologies was incorporated.

In February, 2002, Tiny Software transferred sales and development of its leading software to Kerio, where the developers would continue to work on the software under the Kerio brand. [http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.security.firewalls/browse_thread/thread/bedc6093b7b59b07/f3db0071c9fc6985?lnk=st&q=%22Based+on+an+agreement+between+Tiny+Software+and+Kerio+Technologies%22&rnum=3#f3db0071c9fc6985 Kerio/Tiny name change] ]

Products

* Kerio MailServer, a secure mail server for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X
* Kerio WinRoute Firewall, a network firewall for Windows

Discontinued products

* Kerio Personal Firewall, a personal firewall - acquired by Sunbelt Software on December 21, 2005
* Kerio ServerFirewall, a server firewall - discontinued on September 30, 2005 [ [http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/47572/47572.html Goodbye Kerio ServerFirewall and Personal Firewall] ]
* Kerio WebSTAR, a Web server - discontinued on June 30, 2008 [ [http://www.kerio.com/discontinued_products.html Discontinued Products] ]

Kerio Personal Firewall

On February 8, 2002 Kerio Technologies released Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1 beta 3. [http://web.archive.org/web/20020601213728/http://www.tpffaq.com/ Kerio Personal Firewall FAQ] ] This was the first release since development moved from Tiny Software.

On February 15, 2002 Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1 beta 4 was released.

On February 19, 2002 Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1 beta 5 was released.

On March 10, 2002 Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1.0 was released.

On March 13, 2002 Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1.1 was released.

On March 19, 2002 Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1.2 was released.

On March 27, 2002 Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1.3 was released.

On April 15, 2002 Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1.4 was released.

On May 9, 2003 Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1.5 was released. [http://web.archive.org/web/20030605135530/http://www.kerio.com/kpf_download.html Kerio Personal Firewall Download (Web Archive)] ]

Kerio Personal Firewall v4 was released on November 11, 2003. [http://www.kerio.co.uk/kerio-pr-uk-2003-1125.html All-New Kerio Personal Firewall 4] ]

On December 1, 2005 Kerio announced that Kerio Personal Firewall (v4) was to be acquired by Sunbelt Software [http://www.kerio.co.uk/kerio-pr-uk-2005-2884.html Sunbelt Software to acquire Kerio Personal Firewall] ] , the acquisition was completed December 21, 2005 [http://www.kerio.co.uk/kerio-pr-uk-2005-2962.html Sunbelt Software completes acquisition of Kerio Personal Firewall and Kerio ServerFirewall] ] and soon after the product was renamed to Sunbelt Personal Firewall [http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Home-Home-Office/Sunbelt-Personal-Firewall/ Sunbelt Personal Firewall] ] .

Kerio no longer supports the personal firewall and has since released its WinRoute v6 product as Kerio WinRoute Firewall v6.

As of 2007 support for Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1.5 can still be found at [http://www.dslreports.com/forum/kerio Kerio Forum] , [http://www.dslreports.com/faq/security/2.5.1._Kerio_and_pre-v3.0_Tiny_PFW KerioPF FAQ] and [http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r18628207-Kerio-2x-Kerio-215-for-Dummies KerioPF 2.x "For Dummies" Guide] , all on www.dslreports.com.

See also

*Personal firewall
*Tiny Software
*Sunbelt Software
*WinRoute

External links

* [http://www.kerio.com Official homepage]
* [http://www.sunbelt-software.com/ Sunbelt Software]

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