TIP 1 - Troubleshooting Configuration changes
If you do a regular backup of your CFP Configuration when you get an issue you can import your last working CFP configuration as a new configuration with a new name and then use the script to create a report of these configurations. You can then use a Visual Diff tool (
aptdiff,
winmerge,
diffmerge) to find the differences.
TIP 2 - Share your Rules in the Forum
Share your rules with other members. No way that you'll have to type your rules by hand. The rules in the report match the descriptions CFP write.
This way other member can be sure that their rules were written exactly as you intended looking at each rule description.
You can attach a CFP report to your posts (please attach only txt reports) or you can paste specific rules in you posts (please enclose the pasted rules using a leading [code] and a trailing [/code] code tag.
You can post a report snippet like this:[code]
[Windows Updater Applications] is defined as
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[0] D:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
[1] D:\WINDOWS\system32\msiexec.exe
[2] D:\WINDOWS\system32\wuauclt.exe
[3] D:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\*
[4] D:\WINDOWS\system32\wupdmgr.exe
[5] D:\Program Files\COMODO\Firewall\cfpconfg.exe
[/code]
TIP 3 - Find Services Connections/Opened ports
Ever wondered what service you need to stop in order to close a specific connection? If you use Windows XP you can check "Additional Netstat Information" option.
Another way is to use the output of Process, Services and Netstat to find the services you need to check. In this case you don't need to use the "Additional Netstat Information" option.
First you need to look at netstat ouptut to look at the PID of the connection you need to troubleshoot.
Then you need to look at the Process list to look if that PID pertains to a svchost.exe process.
If that PID pertains to a svchost.exe process then you can look at the sevice list to find what group of services share the same PID.
TIP 4 - Define your Visual Styles
Starting with version 7.019 the script can also output html.
You can change the visual style of the final html output saving the report as html-only and placing a stylesheet (.css) named mystyle.css in the same folder. You can find two examples in the /styles folder of the script compressed archive. If you mind please post your css in this topic to make it available to other members too.
If you wish to suggest your tip post in this topic and it will be listed here.
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