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[Eric Cryptid]

Kerio cause me loads of problems in the past a it was never a firewall that I fully trusted. Have you checked your windows security center after uninstalling Kerio? Is windows firewall disabled??

Kerio may have left it's WMI components which are pretty much invisible but tell the security center that it is installed and running. If it says that then you need to re-assign and reset the WMI manually. Here's how to do it:

Re-registering and recompiling WMI providers

You can reregister and recompile all of the WMI providers on a particular machine by issueing the following statements from the command prompt in windows:
c:
cd %windir%\system32\wbem\
for %i in (*.dll) do RegSvr32 /s %i
for %i in (*.mof, *.mfl) do Mofcomp %i
Resetting WMI
You can reset WMI on the machine concerned (i.e. the machine that you are unable to audit) by executing the following commands from the command prompt - you could also save these to a batch (*.bat) file that could easily be run on multiple machines:
c:
cd %windir%\system32\wbem\

net stop winmgmt
rmdir /s /q repository
rmdir /s /q Logs
mkdir Logs
net start winmgmt

I had to do it when I got rid of Antivir and r-firewall (my previous favs)

Another thing you should do is a full clean using CCleaner (you can also check for registry errors with this) it's a great tool and it's surprising how much rubbish it will get rid of and how many registry errors you may have plus you have the option to back-up the registry. I suggest check and do both so you've got a clean system before installing Comodo.

Hope this helps.

Eric

[dg05]

Kerio cause me loads of problems in the past a it was never a firewall that I fully trusted. Have you checked your windows security center after uninstalling Kerio? Is windows firewall disabled??

Hope this helps.

Eric

Thanks Eric for such a detailed reply. I assume you are referring to XP. I am running Win 2k. I know XP is based on it but not sure if the same problem exists with it.

David

[komodor]

What do you mean?
Give an example. At what application do you refer?
And with the rule (application, any, any, TCP/UDP In/Out, Allow) it ALLOWS all activities for that application

I DO NOT undestand what do you wish??

e.g. I cannot connect with comodo updater to internet, it is enough as explanation for you?

do you wish screencaptured gifs or what?

and secondly e.g. with the rule anynay all,all inout allow all is iexplorer as offline browser very bad

[komodor]

Did you REALLY mean to define the enitre bloody internet as a trusted zone??? Categorically not a good practice! I would change this pretty damned quick if I were you.

ewen :-)

I think that this is a bad idea, but I am trying to guess why is comodo not functioning

[pandlouk]

I DO NOT undestand what do you wish??

e.g. I cannot connect with comodo updater to internet, it is enough as explanation for you?

do you wish screencaptured gifs or what?

and secondly e.g. with the rule anynay all,all inout allow all is iexplorer as offline browser very bad

Check you "Network monitor" rules. There must be 2 default rules:
#1 Allow, IP out, Any, Any, Where IPproto is Any
#2 Block, IP in, Any, Any, Where IPproto is Any

If they are missing then this is the reason of your problems

[Melih]

Thanks Melih

Clearing out Kerio is not a problem. I think that at the moment I prefer it.

The issues with CPF are:

Minor one is that the activation code brings up an error code. No one seems interested in resolving this.

I don't like the auto recognition so have turned it off. I like to know what is trying to get out. Now I keep getting the same pop ups and it does not seem to remember them.

When a pop up occurs you cannot edit it control the port etc it uses.

Browsers etc seem to want to act as a server. If you deny this they do not then always work.

With Kerio, although you can get a lot of pop ups, once set they are remembered and they make a distinction between those loading and those wanting to connect - by colour.

Memory usage is much lower with Kerio and it gets criticised for the amount it uses.

Computer seems slower with CPF

Pop ups do not remain on screen. So if you are away for a while you do not know what has been stopped. Found my A/V and another had had their access denied. Had to delete them from CPF and restart them.

Those are the points that spring to mind

David

ok np David. Sorry it didn't work out for you. But thank you very much for the feedback. We will most definitely take that into consideration.

Melih

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