Hardware with pre installed software

A Former User

I bought a Firewall micro appliance from amazon with pfsense pre installed. How do I know the pfsense install is genuine and does not contain modifications of malware?

doktornotor

Simply reinstall it.

ivor

@louisg00:

I bought a Firewall micro appliance from amazon with pfsense pre installed. How do I know the pfsense install is genuine and does not contain modifications of malware?

If it's purchased from the official pfSense store or Netgate (company behind pfSense project) then you don't have to worry. Everything else is not official and can expose you to the risk. Mind telling us from which seller you have purchased the appliance? Preferably link the item.

Like Doktornotor said, only way to be sure is to reinstall pfSense.

Thanks!

A Former User

Here is the amazon link:

johnpoz

From what I read of that link, it says nothing of any os or distro being pre-installed. Just lists firewall distro's its compatible with.

The Vault is a small form factor network appliance built for use as a firewall router and is compatible with a variety of open source firewall projects, including the most popular industry leading distribution. The FW10408 comes with 4GB DDR3L RAM and 8GB mSATA SSD storage.

Tested compatibility: Most open source software firewall solutions, including the market leader. Compatibility also includes VyOS, OPNsense, Security Onion, Untangle, CentOS 7, *BSD, Linux, and Windows.

You sure that is what you ordered?? And it came with pfsense already installed?

A Former User

Yes, It came with and older version and I updated it through the web interface.

kpa

One of the reviews stated that it comes with pfSense pre-installed. At least the vendor is smart not to advertise it as a "pfSense firewall" as you so often see with similar devices.

A Former User

I reinstalled pfsense and the web interface is back to defaults. I downloaded the latest stable 2.3.3-RELEASE but looking at the dashboard version 2.3.3_1 is available. Is the website not up to date?

johnpoz

current is 2.3.3p1 - not the "release" is 2.3.3 so yes you need to do an update after a clean install to get you to p1

ivor

@louisg00:

Here is the amazon link:

Thank you. This is very helpful. I have edited your initial comment to remove the link since what the protectli is doing is against our terms of use. https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Can_I_sell_pfSense