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gm69
August 16th, 2006, 05:17 AM
Would like some opinions.Knowing sp2 firewall is real good for incoming stuff but doing nothing for outgoing i went looking for a program that would take care of the outgoing.I found Cyberhawk and had it tested with AWFT leak tester.I got a perfect score of 10 on 10.I think this could be a pretty good team.All opnions welcome.Thanks.
Stem
August 20th, 2006, 09:40 AM
Hi gm69,
I have never tried cyberhawk, so I downloaded and installed on my W2K setup,.. but it then attempted to write to unpaged_memory and sent my PC into a hardware (loop) crash. Removing my firewall/AV etc did not help. So,.. I loaded up XP, and this time it did install/run.
Now I had a look at the custom rules, but setting a rule for IE on internet connection (I removed IE from the process list) had no effect. I then set a rule to block certain .exe files, but again no effect,.. maybe I am missing something?,.. or Cyberhawk just doesn`t like my test rig.

Have you made any custom rules?
RejZoR
August 20th, 2006, 11:42 AM
Cyberhawk works fine in VPC and now also on my host system. No problems.
djg05
August 20th, 2006, 11:43 AM
-{ Quote: "Hi gm69,
Now I had a look at the custom rules, but setting a rule for IE on internet connection (I removed IE from the process list) had no effect. I then set a rule to block certain .exe files, but again no effect,.. maybe I am missing something?,.. or Cyberhawk just doesn`t like my test rig.

Have you made any custom rules?" }-

I tried Cyberhawk on my 2k and it would not install since it said IE was out of date. I don't use it and it is whatever came with 2k. Does it rely on IE to install?

I have been trying out Winsonar which I think does similar things and for me fills in the holes left by Kerio and PG.
Stem
August 20th, 2006, 12:25 PM
-{ Quote: "Cyberhawk works fine in VPC and now also on my host system. No problems." }-It did run on XP, but custom rules did not appear to work,... have you set any custom rules to check?


-{ Quote: "I tried Cyberhawk on my 2k and it would not install since it said IE was out of date. I don't use it and it is whatever came with 2k. Does it rely on IE to install?" }-There`s nothing on the website to indicate the need for IE (System Requirements (http://www.novatix.com/Cyberhawk/Requirements.aspx)). On my W2k, version of IE=6.0.2800.1106 (I dont know what version was installed with W2K, as I have never used IE)