Kerio Tech Firewall6 manual Protection of the installed product

Chapter 2 Introduction

the operating system).

However, the drivers provided within the WinRoute installation package have been tested on all supported Windows operating systems. Therefore, these drivers may be considered as compatible.

The Kerio WinRoute Firewall Device low-level driver (Kerio WinRoute Firewall Driver

— Lower Layer) is required to be installed for each network adapter. Therefore, the total number of alerts depends on the number of network adapters in the system.

2.If you selected the Custom installation mode, the behavior of the installation pro- gram will be as follows:

• all checked components will be installed or updated

• all checked components will not be installed or will be removed

During an update, all components that are intended to remain must be ticked.

Having completed this step, you can start the installation process. All files will be copied to the hard disk and all the necessary system settings will be performed. The initial Wizard will be run automatically after your first login (see chapter 2.7).

Under usual circumstances, a reboot of the computer is not required after the installa- tion (a restart may be required if the installation program rewrites shared files which are currently in use). This will install the WinRoute low-level driver into the system kernel. WinRoute Engine will be automatically launched when the installation is complete. The engine runs as a service.

Protection of the installed product

To provide the firewall with the highest security possible, it is necessary to ensure that undesirable (unauthorized) persons has no access to the critical files of the application, especially to configuration files. If the NTFS system is used, WinRoute refreshes settings related to access rights to the directory (including all subdirectories) where the firewall is installed upon each startup. Only members of the Administrators group and local system account (SYSTEM ) are assigned the full access (read/write rights), other users are not allowed access the directory.

Warning: If the FAT32 file system is applied, it is not possible to secure WinRoute files in the way described above. For this reason, it is recommended to install WinRoute only on computers which use the NTFS file system.

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