CPF Logs

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Hey Everyone,

I just noticed that after a reboot, all my CPF logs have been cleared. Shouldn’t these logs be saved untill I decide to clear them? Is this normal or something with my system?

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I’ve also noticed this (and briefly mentioned it on another topic). But, I thought I was the only one with this problem. For me, unless I manually exit CPF first before a reboot, then I will loose everything in the log since the last time I exited CPF manually. I even gave all programs 60 seconds grace period on reboot before being forced to exit by the OS. But, that didn’t work.

What OS are you using?

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Hey kail,

I’m using XP home sp2 with all updates.

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Hmm… not just a W2k thing then. Well, if everybody else is not seeing this, then I guess that we may have somethimg in common that is causing it.

What’s your Anti-Virus program?

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Avast free.

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So, we’re both using avast.

Anybody else using avast with CPF & either does or does not have this CPF log problem?

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I am seeing the same thing. I currently have the beta CAVS installed.

Using XP Pro with sp2 and updates current.

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OK. So, that rules out avast.

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I had installed CPF on a friends computer and theirs is doing the same thing. I don’t think it’s an A/V problem as they’re running Norton.

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Yep, that rules out AVs as causing this.

As this only seems to be happening to a select few, then I think that it’s a fair assumption that it’s not being caused by CPF directly and that it’s an in-direct cause (ie. something that is impacting CPF). We only need to figure out what we all have in common. So, I’ll chuck a few things forward… I have an Nvidia graphics card, CachemanXP & UPHClean. Anybody else?

The work-around is to manually exit CPF before rebooting. This way you don’t loose any log entries.

Egemen: Any ideas on this?

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I actually have the same issue as well with the logs clearing each time.

NOD32, Nvidia 7900GT and other stuff.

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I’ve noticed this with all versions of cpf so far, also if you set log to 7days it resets to today after reboot.

The temp folder also fills up with ~DF4xxx.temp files which i suspect are the logs as one is always locked (in use), this annoyance went away with beta cpf but returned again with new release.

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Me too. Win2k SP4.
Just had a look at my logs since installing latest versions yesterday and there’s nothing there.
I use AVG.

There are ~DFxxxx.TMP (where xxxx is a hex number) files in my TEMP folder, not cleared out after a shutdown.
There is one open now owned by CPF.EXE.

Mark

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I’ve noticed these temp files also, I was wondering if they were caused by Comodo.

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Yes, there are various programs out there that will tell you the ownership of opened files, one I use is NirSoft’s OpenedFilesView http://www.nirsoft.net/. Today’s ~DFxxxx.tmp file is owned by CPF.EXE. They always start out as 65,536 bytes and then grow from there depending on what’s logged I assume.

eregen et al have been very quiet about this - have they noticed this thread?

Mark

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I also have the missing log problem. Because I sit behind a SPI firewall in my router I get very few alerts, but those I get don’t survive beyond a day.

XP sp2, NOD32, ati.

Another thing I have noticed after installing the latest update is that I am asked once a day if I want install the latest update. Just checking through other postings to see if there is an answer to this one.

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There is also another file in temp files that won’t go away, news.text which is again comodo file and also pointless.

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Hi guys,

This is a bug. When CPF is not properly closed, the logs are lost and when windows is being closed, this is a case.

We have fixed the issue. It should be available with the next update.

Egemen

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Thanks Egemen.

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Thanks for the heads up Egemen.