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Chapter 2 Introduction
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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.