How do I Backup/Import cmodo settings and supress alerts

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#1

Hello,

I have 2 questions for the group.

I am running winxp-sp3 and cmodo firewall v5.3.181415.1237 and I have only recently started using CMODO.

  1. How do I import/export settings - I use rollbackRX so I and constantly rolling back my system. Of course when I do this any NEW firewall policy or defense+ settings are lost. On my prior firewall I solved this problem by making a backup of the registry key for my old firewall and then on every reboot I had a start up script that re-imports my “master” firewall config which was created prior to a roll back.

I know that cmodo saves it settings in the registry at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Software\COMODO

My problem is that while regedit appears to import the reg file just fine. Clearly my old master setting are not being imported and becoming the live config. I assume this is because cmodo has registry key protection on its own settings.

To make matters worse, it appears you can not kill the cmdagent.exe or cfp.exe tasks easily which was my next attempt to kill the task, import the key then restart.

Does anyone have a workable solution to automate the importing of the config?
The key here is automation, if I have to click on the gui then that defeats the purpose.

  1. How do I turn off all alerting - in my old firewall (atguard) there was a setting to easily suppress all firewall and app events. Is there a way to toggle being alerted with the assumption being that if you are not being alerted all of those request would be denied?

Thanks.

#2

Take a look at this: Comodo Help

2. [b]How do I turn off all alerting[/b]

There isn’t a magic toggle in CIS to simply block all alerts, however, if you’re running CIS in 'Safe/Clean PC mode, alerts should be minimal. There are some older threads that may be worth looking at

Configuring CIS for Max Security with Zero Alerts
Configuring CIS for Max Security with Zero Alerts - Discussion

However, I’ve never used this configuration, so they may need updating. I’m sure someone else will chip in.

#3

Thanks but per question 1, I need the process to be automated - if I were to roll back my pc and walk away then whatever old policy was in place would be what is active.

Is there another way to import and export the config say by commandline?

#4

Then you would need to import/export from the registry.

#5

Correct,

My problem is that while regedit appears to import the reg file just fine. Clearly my old master setting are not being imported and becoming the live config. I assume this is because cmodo has registry key protection on its own settings.

Import/exporting of the registry is not the issue. Since you can not kill the task with conventional means there is no way to import the key since it is protected. I am looking for a way at runtime to import the values without user intervention.