- Tiny Software
Tiny Software , aSilicon Valley [http://web.archive.org/web/20000624000010/www.tinysoftware.com/about.html Tiny Software About (Web Archive)] ] -based software company founded in 1997. The company developed and marketed TinyWinRoute -- a popular product later followed by Tiny Personal Firewall which was based on it.Tiny Personal Firewall
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26 July ,2000 Tiny Personal Firewall v1.0 was released. [http://www.speedguide.net/read_reviews.php?id=97 Speedguide.net review of Tiny Personal Firewall v1.0] ]On
February 05 ,2001 Tiny Personal Firewall v2.0.10 (1346KB) was released. [http://web.archive.org/web/20010211153031/www.tinysoftware.com/download.php Tiny Software Download Page (Web Archive February 2001)] ]On
March 07 ,2001 Tiny Personal Firewall v2.0.11 (1346KB) was released. [http://web.archive.org/web/20010322202040/www.tinysoftware.com/download.php Tiny Software Download Page (Web Archive March 2001)] ]On
March 23 ,2001 Tiny Personal Firewall v2.0.12 (1387KB) was released. [http://web.archive.org/web/20010410003523/www.tinysoftware.com/download.php Tiny Software Download Page (Web Archive April 2001)] ]On
April 25 ,2001 Tiny Personal Firewall v2.0.13 (1387KB) was released. [http://web.archive.org/web/20010604064856/www.tinysoftware.com/download.php Tiny Software Download Page (Web Archive June 2001)] ]On
June 08 ,2001 Tiny Personal Firewall v2.0.14 was released. [http://web.archive.org/web/20011217155449/http://members.home.net/zyklon/tpf.html Guide to Tiny Personal Firewall] ] [http://web.archive.org/web/20010801145156/www.tinysoftware.com/download.php Tiny Software Download Page (Web Archive August 2001)] ]On
October 12 ,2001 Tiny Personal Firewall v2.0.15 was released. [http://web.archive.org/web/20020206074330/www.tinysoftware.com/download.php Tiny Software Download Page (Web Archive February 2002)] ]On
October 22 ,2001 Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0.15A was released. [http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=tpfirewall Old Versions of Tiny Personal Firewall] ] .The popularity of Tiny Personal Firewall stemmed from the fact that it was fairly easy to operate, had a very small hard-disk and memory footprint, and was free for home and personal use. [http://www.boran.com/security/sp/pf/pf_tiny20001114.html Personal Firewalls Tests: Tiny Personal Firewall] ] It was also superior to many similar products in that it monitored both outgoing and incoming connections (inexplicably, many competing personal firewalls watched only incoming traffic).
In February, 2002 the rights to the software was transferred to
Kerio Technologies (formed in 2001) [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] ] , where the original team who developed the software under the Tiny brand continued to develop it as Kerio.Tiny Software continued to develop a software
firewall solution calledTiny Firewall v6 [http://web.archive.org/web/20041208062744/www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny2?la=EN Tiny Software Website 2004] ] ; however, this product was not based on the original Tiny Personal Firewall. OnDecember 17 ,2004 it was announced that it would be released as Tiny Personal Firewall 2005 [http://web.archive.org/web/20050207090715/www.tinysoftware.com/home/tiny2?la=EN Tiny Software Website 2005] ] .On
June 27 ,2005 Tiny Software was acquired byComputer Associates [http://www.ca.com/us/press/release.aspx?cid=71263 CA Acquires Tiny Software - Press Release] ] ; since then theirCA Personal Firewall was promoted as being "based on Tiny Software technology" [http://home2.ca.com/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayPage&Locale=en_US&id=ProductDetailsPage&SiteID=caconsum&productID=50709000 CA Personal Firewall 2007 Official home page] ] .See also
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Personal firewall
*Kerio Technologies
*WinRoute External links
* [http://www.kerio.com Kerio Technologies]
* [http://www.ca.com Computer Associates]
* [http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/kerio-product-acquisition-completed.html The last version of Kerio Personal Firewall, 2.1.5 offered for download]References
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