Re: Kerio the cause of intermittent boot problem in WinXP?

From: gexpatri (gexpatri@yahoo.fr)
Date: 09/30/02 

From: gexpatri <gexpatri@yahoo.fr>
Date: 30 Sep 2002 08:06:14 GMT

Oh oh.
Kerio is a Firewall...

Thus it is not designed to prevent your system from being infected with a
trojan horse !
This is the mission of your antivirus.

"Sven Pran" <no.direct@mail.please> wrote in news:QdTl9.27514$sR2.478946
@news4.ulv.nextra.no:

> Occationally my DELL Inspiron 8200 with Windows XP HE did
> not complete the startup sequence through to the welcome screen.
> It displayed the initial "Windows XP Home Edition" with the
> progress indicators operating, but then the screen went just black.
> The other indicators on my machine showed that the machine was
> operating, but I could not do anything except forcing the power off
> and try again
>
> The other day I discovered that this problem was persistent when I
> started my machine on battery only (I usually have the mains power
> adapter connected), so I was in a position to do some research.
>
> The outcome of this so far is a strong indication that the problem was
> caused by Kerio which I have been using with (otherwise) great
> satisfaction for some months now. I still use it on my machines running
> Windows 98SE, it is only my Windows XP machine that seems
> affected.
>
> Does this ring a bell for somebody?
>
> regards Sven
>
> PS: Don't suggest Zone Alarm, I tried that one first and ran into a
> wide variety of problems. However, being located behind a hardware
> firewall with my private LAN and using a high quality virus protection
> facility I feel rather relaxed, the main purpose of including Kerio in
my
> systems was to prevent trojan horses from establishing themselves on
> my machine without me becoming aware of it.
>
>
>

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