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Agnitum

Agnitum's Home Page

The creators of Jammer, Tauscan and of course, Outpost! If you want the latest news on any of there programs this is the place to find it.

Outpost Home Page

The first firewall using an open source modular system (plugins) allows anyone to create new plugins and whatever they want to the firewall. Like AtGuard, Outpost is a site blocker, string blocker, ad filter, dns cache, e-mail attachment filter, and IDS and these are just the default plugins. Outpost comes as either a free Lite or a paid for Pro version.

Support Forum

Covers Jammer, Tauscan, and of course Outpost Firewall! Get the latest information on Agnitum products, find out what's new with Outpost or go through the forum archives and FAQ to find a solution to your problem.

• Announcements Fourm
• FAQ Forum

Threads on recurring problems:

• Cisco Virtual Private Network (VPN) & Outpost
• svchost.exe and rule-settings

Useful threads:

• Additional Ad Filter Sizes
• Services - What are they good for? How to treat them? XP, also w2k
• How Outpost processes rules internally
• Dmut's registry cleaners for Outpost and ZoneAlarm
• What is RPCSS (port 135)?
• Test your shields! Scansites for firewall and browser
• Outpost shows ports listening/active listeners: am I in trouble?

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Plugins (Agnitum's)

AGNIS for Outpost

For the Ads Plugin. AGNIS (AtGuard/Norton Internet Security) is Eric Howes excellent Ad Block list that he has created and maintains for AtGuard and NIS users. His has also started maintaining AGNIS for Outpost which is for Outposts Ads plugin. It's up-todate and free and comes in Outposts .ctl format!
How to import AGNIS for Outpost into the Ads Plugin

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Plugins (User Created)

 Blockpost

Untrusted hosts plugin by Dmut, one of the Moderators at Agnitum's Support Forums. Think of this as similar to Internet Explorers 'Untrusted Zone' or a Host file. Blocks access to the IP address's you specify so that every packet from that address is blocked.

This plugin has the highest priority that you can possibly get in Outpost's packet filtering algorithum, it even has a higher priority then 'Trusted Zone'.
More on Blockpost
Sample IP lists for Blockpost
Download Blockpost (The thread that contains the download link)

 HTTP Log

A URLs logger by Muchod, one of the Moderators at Agnitum's Support Forums. This is very similar to AtGuards HTTP log except that it has a Verbose option for even greater detail.
More on HTTP Log
Download HTTP Log (This is always the latest version)

 PC Flank WhoEasy

A WHOIS tool by PC Flank. Useful for looking up the owner of a domain and finding contact addresses as well as showing you information about IP addresses that try and connect to your PC. You can even use it to see if the domain name you want is already taken.
Download WhoEasy
Purchase a License for WhoEasy
PC Flank's WhoEasy FAQ

 Super Stealth

ARP filtering plugin for LANs by Dmut, one of the Moderators at Agnitum's Support Forums. This plugin is for protect yourself on a LAN (no use for anyone on dial-up/cable/dsl etc). With correct use of this plugin you will get complete security in your Ethernet segment. It will shield you against any IP-based attack, scans, floods, connection requests, all IP-based (and higher: TCP, HTTP, FTP) incoming traffic on your LAN.

For use on LAN. Allows you to specify trusted MAC addresses. Those nodes which aren't trusted can't resolve your IP to MAC address and thus can't send you ethernet frames.
More on Super Stealth
Download Super Stealth (The thread that contains the download link)

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Test Sites

Web sites with free online tests to allow you to check how secure you are and look for holes in your current Outpost setup.
Audit my PC
PC Flank
SecurityMetrics
Shields Up
Sygate
Symantec

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Useful Links

AdvICE

Network ICE's online resource. A database from the makers of Black ICE on information security and anti-hacker information. There's alot of information here, but you may find it overwealming at first.

Outpost IRC Channel

Outpost now has an Internet Relay Chat Channel (unofficial)
Grab an IRC client and connect to

• chat.planetz.net port 7000 or
• irc.webchat.org port 6667 or
• irc.webmaster.com port 6667

The channel is called #Outpost.

Or go to http://kgiii.50megs.com/Outpost.html and enter the java chat.

Pilgrims Complete Ruleset for AtGuard

Great intro on how to optimize AtGuard/NIS, for download as an ofline archive. Not designed for Outpost, but the rules can be used in Outpost and the information applies to Outpost as much as AtGuard.

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Outpost and the Outpost logo are ©Agnitum Software

This is an unofficial guide, the information expressed here may differ from Agnitum's. There is a support forum (no longer run by Agnitum, but by users) if you need more help this is a good place to start. Where information here conflicts with what Agnitum have told you always go with the information given to you by Agnitum.

Guide/site and images ©Stephen Cox