K9 filter being blocked by NIS every few minutes

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I'm using k9 web protection on this computer alongside NIS, and they seem to get along fine- except that if look in the history of NIS, i see that every few minutes it's blocking an access atempt from K9 (unathorized access atempt blocked, open process token), which has K9filter.exe as it's 'actor'.

 

How can i tell NIS not to block this?

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Check in your history on the main page, scroll down to Norton Product Tamper Protection.  If that is where the entries are, it means that K9 would like access to Norton files.  Norton is refusing, as it is designed to do.  As long as K9 withdraws gracefully, you won't have a problem.

 

If K9 is being prevented from accessing the internet, you will have to allow it access through the program control via internet>settings> scroll down to program control>configure.

 

Duplications in programs may cause problems.

 

 

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Hi

I have K9 and I see what you see as well,it has only started doing this since the upgrade in K9 before it hardly rated a mention in the logs other than accessing the internet.Have you been to the forums through the main UI to see what has popped up there .I have not done that yet.But will be soon enough.

I would not worry about it,NIS blocking it is NIS protecting itself my question is why is K9 doing what it's doing.Best bet for both of us is go to K9s forum and ask the question what has changed.Sorry I can not be of anymore help.

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i started this this thread in the k9 forum if u want to join in: http://forums.bluecoat.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=7659

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Starmonger -

 

Just so you will know, you can not 'unblock' or allow any action to modify the NIS processes.  I think you are headed in the correct direction by asking K9 what they have changed.

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Hi

I have seen your post and added my 5cents worth,But I think things move slowly on their forums.I have been looking for reasons why K9 may be upsetting NIS2009 and found that K9 does have a phishing filter as well as a malware blocking filter so my guess is this could be triggering something in NIS? 

 

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mo wrote:

Hi

I have seen your post and added my 5cents worth,But I think things move slowly on their forums.I have been looking for reasons why K9 may be upsetting NIS2009 and found that K9 does have a phishing filter as well as a malware blocking filter so my guess is this could be triggering something in NIS? 

 

Yep, two of these can surely conflict. They almost do the same