Anti-Virus (with no Built-In Firewall) with Kerio Firewall?

Hi,

Is anyone using the older, simpler version of Kerio Personal
Firewall(2.1.5) with an anti-virus application? I've been a user of
PC-Cillin for a couple of years, but something in the newer version of
PC-Cillin, having to do with the built-in firewall, is conflicting with
Kerio and thus hosing my internet connection (sites are unreachable, or can
be reached, but packets from those sites apparently make up the stack to
the requesting applicationon on my end. I've noticed that others have the
same problem with PC Cillin, and various solutions have been advised, all
of which I've followed to no avail. At this point I'm completely sick of
PC Cillin, which is a shame, since I believe it to be anotherwise fine
product, and have purchased this year's version. I want to move on to a
simple, reliable, regularly updated anti-virus checker that DOES NOT have a
built-in firewall. Shareware is ok: I certaily won't mind paying for it
if it does the job with a minimum of tweaking.

Note that this problem has occured on two laptops, but NOT on my home PC.
All boxes in question are using some form of XP. Furthermore, I'm certain
that it's PC Cillin that's the culprit because, as soon nas the app is
uninstalled, the connect works fine. Merely closing the app does not
restore the connection. Very frustrating, and it took me many hours of
troubleshooting to find the problem. What a silly waste of time.

Many thanks,
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frank wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone using the older, simpler version of Kerio Personal
> Firewall(2.1.5) with an anti-virus application? I've been a user of
> PC-Cillin for a couple of years, but something in the newer version of
> PC-Cillin, having to do with the built-in firewall, is conflicting with
> Kerio and thus hosing my internet connection (sites are unreachable, or can
> be reached, but packets from those sites apparently make up the stack to
> the requesting applicationon on my end. I've noticed that others have the
> same problem with PC Cillin, and various solutions have been advised, all
> of which I've followed to no avail. At this point I'm completely sick of
> PC Cillin, which is a shame, since I believe it to be anotherwise fine
> product, and have purchased this year's version. I want to move on to a
> simple, reliable, regularly updated anti-virus checker that DOES NOT have a
> built-in firewall. Shareware is ok: I certaily won't mind paying for it
> if it does the job with a minimum of tweaking.
>
> Note that this problem has occured on two laptops, but NOT on my home PC.
> All boxes in question are using some form of XP. Furthermore, I'm certain
> that it's PC Cillin that's the culprit because, as soon nas the app is
> uninstalled, the connect works fine. Merely closing the app does not
> restore the connection. Very frustrating, and it took me many hours of
> troubleshooting to find the problem. What a silly waste of time.
>
> Many thanks,

I'm assuming you're referring to Trend Micro Internet Security 2004? You
can uninstall the Trend Micro Firewall, using the PCCTool.exe found in
the Internet Security Folder which was installed in the main program
folder (Trend Micro). Just click the .exe file and go to tab E,
uninstall. Choose *uninstall firewall* and voila! You should expect
issues anytime you run two PFW utilities together. They compete for
resources at a very low level. In fact, some conflicts prohibit you from
booting into anything but safe mode.