Kerio Control is a software gateway firewall developed by Kerio Technologies

Kerio Technologies

Kerio Technologies, Inc. is a software company in San Jose, CA that offers security, messaging, voice and collaboration products for small and medium businesses...

 (earlier known as Tiny Software). Equipped with a VPN server, integrated McAfee

McAfee

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 anti-virus (optional), web filtering, bandwidth limiter, Internet monitor and user-specific Internet access management, the Kerio Control installs on Windows, providing network perimeter defense for small to medium organizations.

Release history

Version	Release date	Significant changes
3 to 4.x	1998	Winroute Pro version 3 and 4 supported under Windows 98 Windows 98 Windows 98 is a graphical operating system by Microsoft. It is the second major release in the Windows 9x line of operating systems. It was released to manufacturing on 15 May 1998 and to retail on 25 June 1998. Windows 98 is the successor to Windows 95. Like its predecessor, it is a hybrid...  and Windows NT Windows NT Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement... .
4.x	February 1, 2002	Kerio company formed from ex-Tiny Software Tiny Software Tiny Software, a Silicon Valley-based software company, founded in 1997, was acquired by Computer Associates in 2005. The company developed and marketed Tiny WinRoute, a popular personal firewall, later followed by Tiny Personal Firewall, which was based on it....  employees.
5.0	February 21, 2003	First version with Kerio branding. Support for DOS-based Windows dropped.
5.1	August 25, 2003	Improved online user monitoring (Hosts/Users screen), Support for internet connection failover (Interfaces screen), SIP protocol inspector – transparent handling of SIP through NAT, Advanced logging options – log rotation and syslog support, Customizable DNS forwarding, Customizable redirect page for denying HTTP rules, Added detection of clients using P2P networks, Automatic checking for new versions, Ability to use DNS names instead of IP's in traffic policy, Support for NTLM for Mozilla-based browsers (Mozilla 1.4 or higher)
6.0	June 7, 2004	Integrated client/server and server-to-server VPN solution, Alerts and notifications, Antivirus protection for emails (POP3 and SMTP), Improved realtime user monitoring and traffic statistics, P2P Eliminator – universal P2P blocking, Support for VisNetic Antivirus Plug-in 4
6.1	June 23, 2005	Transparent user mapping in Active Directory domains, Support for multiple Active Directory domains, Kerio Clientless SSL-VPN(web-based secure access to network shares in LAN), Customizable routing configuration for VPN tunnels, Spanish localization
6.2	March 3, 2006	Bandwidth Limiter, Dual anti-virus, Product registration from the administration console, VPN Client supports for 64 bit Windows
6.3	March 29, 2007	Statistics and reporting (StaR), support for 64 bit systems, support for Windows Vista, and enhanced P2P Eliminator
6.4	September 17, 2007	Enhanced Internet monitoring, print-friendly reports, increased performance, and Dynamic DNS support
6.5	September 9, 2008	Internet link load balancing and 11 additional localizations
6.6	March 31, 2009	VPN client for Mac and Linux, run Windows VPN client as a service, and improved Network Neighborhood viewing
7.0	June 1, 2010	Product renamed to Kerio Control. Added Intrusion Prevention System, MAC Filter, Multiple IP addresses on an adapter.
7.1	November 30, 2010	Full Web Administration. Available as a Hardware Appliance.

External links

• PC Magazine review of Kerio WinRoute Firewall 6.5