He thought about the software still running inside the hot metal shell of his computer. It was an old tool, a heavy industrial instrument in a world of lightweight apps. But tonight, in the heat and the noise, the Stonesoft VPN client had been the only thing strong enough to hold the door shut against the storm.

This acquisition is the root of the confusion. When a user searches for a "Stonesoft download," they are looking for software that, officially, no longer exists under that name. It has been rebranded, folded into larger suites, and deprecated. The "Stonesoft VPN Client" is now technically the McAfee VPN Client or part of the Forcepoint/Trellix ecosystem.