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Welcome to Firewall Leak Tester Website

What is 'Firewall Leak Tester'?
This website, on one hand, enables you to test your software personal firewall thanks to different test programs ('leaktests'), and on the other hand, shows a global vulnerabilities view of the most common personal firewalls in a summary page.
Firewall Leak Tester provides also documentation and advices to improve your security dramatically.

What Firewall Leak Tester is testing?
Nowadays, threats from the Internet are growing, both from the inside and the outside.
To answer to a security need from Internet users (us), security software firms have created "personal firewalls", softwares acting like real hardware firewalls, but on user's computers.
These personal firewalls have network level filtering, that we will name "network filtering", and an outbound application filtering that we will name "software filtering".

Due to the fact that most of these personal firewalls offer reasonable protection against inbound attacks coming from the Internet, we will only study here their software filtering, outbound filtering that can be stressed by Trojans which try to initiate themselves by connecting to the outside to transmit data out.

To test this software filtering feature, many leaktests (""leak"" test) exist, they are programs created by different authors, each trying to bypass the personal firewalls with his own trick.



What is the purpose of Firewall Leak Tester ?

The purpose of this website is to inform users, to explain, and then to help improving your security.

1-In a first part, if you are interested by the results themselves, you can check the scoreboard, use yourself the leaktests available on the left menu, and read the explanations available on the document page.

2-In a second part, you can improve your security by reading the advices page and also the software page, to protect you againt every leaktest. Do not miss the reward page showing excellent sandbox softwares.

3-Finally, you can check my personal software area on the left menu 'TOOLS', providing softwares I am doing on my spare time to improve Windows security.


I wish you a good reading,
Guillaume Kaddouch (gkweb)

Website Info: Firewall Leak Tester

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December 05 2007 : Anti-Keylogger Tester (AKLT) updated to 3.0

New keylogging method added:

Someone talked to me about an apparently new keylogging method being discussed at Wilder Security Forum. This method used by the testing tool in this thread is based on GetRawInputData() API, and bypasses some HIPS (there is still fortunately HIPS detecting and blocking it).

That's the first time I hear of it, and from what we can see, for some security vendor too. However, I found references to this keylogging method back to 2005. Therefore, that could mean that malware writers are aware of it since two years, and that would explain why there is HIPS aware of it and detecting it.

I added myself this new method to AKLT with the same purpose than the last build, completeness. Moreover, AKLT does not require at all Microsoft .NET unlike the tool mentioned in the aformentioned link. This enables everyone to test their security software without the need to install third party libraries. Please note that this new method, GetRawInputData, is only available since Windows XP and newer OS such as Vista (the tests button will be greyed out on Windows 2000 and prior).

You can download the new AKLT version

Source: Firewall Leak Tester NEWSLETTER