UserGate Proxy & Firewall 5.1

UserGate Proxy & Firewall 5.1 supports sharing Internet access among employees in your company, making traffic calculations, and protecting your local network against malicious activity and software, such as hacker attacks, viruses and Trojans.

UserGate is a flexible yet very powerful program that can be used in small- and mid-sized companies instead of relying on large and expensive hardware or software alternatives.

UserGate incorporates NAT and application-layer proxy capabilities and works as a point of entry to the Internet for a local network. You can share Internet access among employees in your company, use multiple ISPs, and manage bandwidth to avoid traffic congestion and make effective use of an existing Internet connection.

There are two antivirus engines integrated in UserGate that make sure all incoming traffic, such as e-mail, HTTP and FTP, is checked for malware. You can choose to include one or even both of them into your UserGate installation. Apart from protection against viruses and other malware, UserGate also incorporates a firewall, which effectively guards your network against intrusions.

With UserGate, you can enforce as strict an Internet access policy as you want, to ensure that the Internet is used appropriately in your company. The integrated BrightCloud Service allows you to apply web filters, and helps boost employee productivity by giving you total control over what sites your employees can access.

UserGate also includes an application filtering module that lets you allow or deny Internet access to network applications installed on client machines. User statistics are available in comprehensive reports directly accessible from within the program, or remotely via a web browser.

With DHCP server support, you can make UserGate dynamically assign IP-addresses in your local network. The resource publishing feature enables you to provide access to your companys internet resources, such as Web-, FTP- or mail-server from the outside.

UserGate is a complex solution for sharing Internet access among employees in your company, making traffic calculations, and protecting your local network against malicious activity and software, such as hacker attacks, viruses and Trojans. UserGate is a flexible yet very powerful program that can be used in small- and mid-sized companies instead of relying on large and expensive hardware or software alternatives.

Major Features:

1. Internet Security
   • There are two antivirus engines integrated in UserGate that make sure all incoming traffic, such as e-mail, HTTP and FTP, is checked for malware. You can choose to include one or even both of them into your UserGate installation. Apart from protection against viruses and other malware, UserGate also incorporates a firewall, which effectively guards your network against intrusions.
2. Internet access control
   • With UserGate, you can enforce as strict an Internet access policy as you want, to ensure that the Internet is used appropriately in your company. The integrated BrightCloud Service allows you to apply web filters, and helps boost employee productivity by giving you total control over what sites your employees can access. UserGate also includes an application filtering module that lets you allow or deny Internet access to network applications installed on client machines. User statistics are available in comprehensive reports directly accessible from within the program, or remotely via a web browser.
3. Proxy service
   • UserGate incorporates NAT and application-layer proxy capabilities and works as a point of entry to the Internet for a local network. You can share Internet access among employees in your company, use multiple ISPs, and manage traffic to avoid traffic congestion and make effective use of an existing Internet connection.
4. Network administration
   • With DHCP server support, you can make UserGate dynamically assign IP-addresses in your local network. The resource publishing feature enables you to provide access to your company’s internet resources from the outside. Finally, UserGate is capable of working with multiple ISPs, switching users to the secondary connection when the primary connection is broken, as well as routing different users to different ISPs.

Enhancements:

• Multilingual installer
• • A multilingual UserGate Proxy & Firewall installer was added. Now, at the beginning of setup, you can select the installation language and all modules will be automatically installed in your preferred language. Modifying the language settings through the program interface will affect the program interface only. In order to update the language settings within all of the UserGate messages and response pages (files located in the “%UserGate5%wwwroot” folder), you will need to reinstall the product using the new multilingual installer.
• Remote restart
• • The remote UserGate server restart function was added in UserGate Administration console. Using the administration console, simply connect to the remote UserGate server then select menu “File - Restart server”.
• Unicode support
• • UserGate now supports Unicode, allowing you to use oriental languages.
• Content-type filtering
• • Content-type filtering was implemented for the traffic through the UserGate proxy services. The content-type field contained in the web-server response determines which type of data are contained in the response: audio (wav, mp3, etc.), video (mov, mp4, etc.), image (jpg, png, etc.), document (MS Word, MS Excel, etc.), or other types. UserGate server analyzes content-type fields and, depending on the traffic management rules, permits or blocks the transmission of data. With content-type filtering, it is possible to restrict access to video/audio files, turn off javascript, or prevent the transfer of certain documents types. The list of content types is stored in an *.xml file, located in the “%UserGate5%Administrator” folder. The UserGate administrator can add new types both directly into the XML file, and through the administration console. For this purpose, we have added a link to ianna.org.
• BrightCloud filtering for NAT traffic
• • BrightCloud filtering is now available for UserGate NAT traffic. This filtering will work if the DNS resolution was performed through the UserGate DNS module. In cases where there are several websites (virtual hosts) belonging to different categories and located on a single IP address, UserGate chooses the category corresponding to the site most frequently accessed from the local network.
• Handling 'hosts' file
• • The UserGate DNS module now handles the file “%SystemRoot%system32etchosts”. Any changes in this file will automatically update the UserGate DNS cache.
• Modified algorithm for DNS requests
• • A modified algorithm is used for DNS requests when there are several DNS servers specified in the UserGate settings. The UserGate server will query DNS servers based on their reaction time. If any DNS server response is delayed, UserGate will automatically execute a query to all other DNS servers.
• Support for MX and PTR DNS requests
• • The UserGate DNS module now supports MX and PTR DNS requests. These kinds of queries are the most important for the mail server, located in the local area network, behind UserGate.
• Support for non-recursive DNS requests
• • The UserGate DNS module now supports non-recursive requests.
• Reports in OpenOffice calc format
• • The UserGate Statistics module now is able to export a report in OpenOffice Calc format.
• Masquerading for Dial-up(VPN) connections
• • The UserGate NAT driver now supports automatic outbound adapter determination not only for WAN, but also for dial-up (VPN) connections. In *NIX operating systems, this technology is called “Masquerading”.
• SIP statistics included in web-statistics module
• • The UserGate Web statistics module now contains SIP statistics.
• 'SIP Registrar' function support
• • UserGate now supports the “SIP Registrar” function. This function allows you to use UserGate as an SIP server for calls within the local area network. In order to use UserGate SIP Registrar, a user needs to specify:
  • • UserGate IP address as a SIP Server
    • user name, which is specified in the user’s UserGate profile
    • password (any password can currently be specified)
  • The availability of the SIP Registrar function in UserGate does not preclude the registration on external SIP servers.
• MySQL database support
• • UserGate now works with the MySQL database.
• Setting timeout for UserGate NAT connections
• • The ability to control the timeout for connections through UserGate NAT is now added to the section "NAT Common Settings". When a user’s request reaches the UserGate NAT driver, the application identifies the correct NAT rule and returns it to the driver. All subsequent network traffic is processed in accordance with the rule. The NAT rule is cached within the driver for a set amount of time in case new connections arrive that need to follow the same NAT rule. The section “NAT Common Settings” allows you to set a value for the TCP/UDP/ICMP timeouts. The option “Print Debug Log” is intended for debug mode and allows extended log messages to be recorded in UserGate NAT driver.

Requirements:

Software requirements:

• UserGate proxy server with NAT (Network Address Translation) is compatible with Windows 2000/2003/XP with standard TCP/IP protocols installed. Without NAT protocol support, UserGate is compatible with Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0.
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher is recommended for use with the UserGate Administration Client.
  

Hardware requirements:

• A dedicated or infrequently used computer with the following minimum configuration: Pentium II 400MHz, 64 MB RAM, 10 MB of hard disk space plus additional hard disk space for cache and log files.

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