Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1.5 & v4.2.3 - not working for me

I have just installed Kerio Personal Firewall v2.1.5 onto laptop with Windows XP Pro that has wireless netowrking. It is now blocking all internet access, problem is that Kerio does not popup with a question asking me if I want to allow a particular program internet access, so my internet connection permanently not working! Any ideas? Is there any service in SERVICES.MSC that Kerio relies on to work properly, apart from it's own kp4* services?

 

I have used kerio 2.1.5 for a long time and it should popup and ask for access permission for your apps. if not it could be a corrupted install. Have you uninstalled and reinstalled??

 

Yes, and this is on a clean install of Windows XP as well! I'm thinking that I may have disabled a service that Kerio uses but not obvious which one, so I probably reinstall XP again! I just installed on clean Windows 2000, without any tweaking and Kerio works correctly.

 

***** UPDATE *****

I have now located the problem causing Kerio problem. After a lot of head scratching and trial and error I place the blame on my Intel PROset wireless utility. I have the Intel PROwireless 2100 chip anad using the 7.1.45 wireless utility with 1.2.4.35 hardware driver. After disabling the util and using the built in Windows XP software to control the wireless card the above problems are gone. Thing is I want to use the Intel utility as it works better than the WinXP one. I have found that with the Intel util my wireless connection connects without fail after booting into Windows, whereas the Win XP util doesn't - I would have to initiate a 'Repair' cycle to get the connection going. I think I may have to make do without a software firewall in this case, seeing as I have a router to protect me from inbound attacks.

 

I take it neither version of Kerio sees your wireless adapter when using the utility? Did you see anything in logs to do with other protocols being blocked? You could try the free version of ZA and see if it works.

Regards,

CrazyM

 

JLamey: you must have installed wrongly the latest Kerio 4.2.3.

At the start of the install you have the option to install advanced... if you do that you get pop ups immediately. With the normal install there are no popups at all.

 

That's all very well but even if I installed it in the basic mode (no pop ups) then I should have Internet access without being prompted right? Cos at the moment it seems that any network trafic request I make (such as clicking link in web browser) is simply ignored or stuck somewhere - Kerio dont detect it, my network adapter dont detect it.

 

I'm not sure how to check if Kerio sees my netowrk adapter or not. I do have my local IP's in the trusted zone, along with the wireless adapter attached to the rule.

Yes I should try Zone Alarm. I didn't know they still make a free one. IS the current version good? Or should I try to find an older version like v2.x ?

 

Anything in the Kerio logs that might indicate what the problem is?

Most comments on the latest version are that it works well.

Regards,

CrazyM

 

No - nothing in the logs to tell me anything - no blocked or disabled alerts at all.

I'm after something that will give me outbound control as I using a router. Something light to work along side the light AV NOD32. Am gonna try that Fileseclab Personal Firewall Professional v3.0 now.