I am running Comodo Internet Security Permium 11. I can’t start Virtual Kiosk anymore. It used to work a month ago, but doesn’t now. When I double-click on the Virtual Kiosk icon, I see an hour glass symbol for a short time, then it goes away. Watching in Task Manager, I see that the attempt to start Virtual Kiosk causes the “Virtual Service Manager” to start. Nothing else happens. The same thing occurs when I click on “Run Virtual Desktop” in the Comodo Containment Tasks window.
I am running 64 bit Windows 10. The most recent update installed is version 1803.
I un-installed CIS completely and did a clean re-install. After that I was able to start Virtual Kiosk ONCE, but once in, nothing would run. The classic desktop was blank. I tried to start Comodo Dragon and was told that it couldn’t find the program. The path in the error statement pointed to the correct location for Comodo Dragon. So I closed Virtual Kiosk. After this one “success” I was back to the behaviour described above - nothing happens.
I tried Resetting the Container several times - no improvement.
Perhaps this may help:
open cis
go to task (on the top left corner)
click on down left side Unblock Applications
look for comodo\virtkiosk.exe and set a hook in the little box
go to Unblock (on the top left) and unblock virtkiosk.exe
Go to "C:\Program Files\COMODO\COMODO Internet Security" and run “virtkiosk.exe” as administrator. Does it launch? If so might be some privilegies problems.
Open settings/Firewall/Application Rules/Add/Browse (on top on the right corner)/running processes (maybe the last point) click on, choose 'Use a Custom Ruleset/Copy from" and allow and do the same in HIPS if enabled.
You can use virtual desktop, but that’s not what you want! It needs silverlight!?
When I click on either the IE icon or the Dragon icon in the Comodo widget to run them in the container I get an error statement that Windows cannot find the program. The paths shown in the error statement is correct.
Here’s one for you. I searched for the Comodo Uninstaller and downloaded the CIS/CAVS/CES cleanup tool for x64 from the Comodo site and ran it. Just after it said it was creating a Restore Point, my PC crashed to a blue screen. I had to manually reboot.
After reboot, I was surprised when the CIS widget still appeared on my desktop. Just for grins I tried to open Dragon in a container - it worked. Virtual Desktop also runs now. I rebooted again, just to be sure and things still work!
I have no idea what happened or what the cleanup tool did, but I’m pleasantly surprised at the outcome.
If this is permanent then I consider my problem solved. :-TU
The problem is that nobody knows what you do and did. It’s often difficult for oneself to know what you did. I.e. to use registry cleaner, pc-tools/tweak which all can irritate your OS a.s.o. and destroy your registry.
Well, we’re back to where we started - no virtual desktop. Didn’t work this morning, so I went through the whole uninstall process with control panel and then used Comodo’s uninstaller. (At least that ran correctly this time.) After several reboots, everything looked clean, so I reinstalled CIS and Dragon.
Virtual desktop ran once, normally, but never again.
Since the main reason I use CIS is to have the virtual desktop, I will remove CIS and change to a different security product.
Thanks to those who tried to help. I think this is a lost cause.
That’s what I meant. Nobody knows what you really did and as for me, too, sometimes you don’t even know what you’ve done.
I uninstall with RevoUninstaller which finds all remnants of a program to uninstall.
Both ‘Secure Shopping’ and 'Virtual Desktop" run without problems on my PC. I only don’t know if it is safe to use Virtual Desktop with Silverlight (which is no longer maintained by microsoft and and should therefore be a danger or a target for attacks, to my knowledge). I like ‘Virtual Desktop’ .