Re: Kerio Personal Firewall blocks all traffic

From: donutbandit (none_at_none.com)
Date: 01/02/04


Date: 2 Jan 2004 15:34:02 GMT

pshabash@hotmail.com (Paul) wrote in
news:6b4d22e7.0401011040.2d42d1b2@posting.google.com:

> Hello,
>
> About a week ago I've installed Kerio Personal Firewall 4.0.10. Now
> I'm seeing the following strange behavior:
>
> When I start my machine, KPF starts up also, and works fine. For a
> while. But then, usually after about 3-4 hours, it suddenly begins
> to ignore all rules and to indiscriminately block all network
> traffic, both incoming and outgoing. Sometimes this is preceded by
> about 15 minutes of gradually slowing traffic, but most of the time
> it happens just like that. No KPF messages or alerts are posted; in
> fact, KPF provides no indication that anything has changed.
>
> I've checked: The KPF rules are all correct. The "block all
> traffic" option is off. There are no strange events in the Windows
> system log. (I'm running Windows 2000 pro.)
>
> An interesting fact is that when I check the "Disable Firewall"
> option, there is no change. My connection is still blocked. If,
> however, I fully shut down the KPF engine, my connection comes back
> to normal. When KPF is restarted, it blocks everything again. I
> need to reboot the machine for KPF to work properly again. For a few
> hours only.
>
> Does anyone know what might be causing this?
>

Kerio 4 is buggy.



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