What is persfw.exe?

persfw.exe is part of Kerio Personal Firewall and developed by Kerio Technologies according to the persfw.exe version information.

persfw.exe's description is "Kerio Personal Firewall Engine"

persfw.exe is usually located in the 'C:\Program Files\Kerio\Personal Firewall\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about persfw.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on persfw.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameKerio Personal Firewall
Company nameKerio Technologies
File descriptionKerio Personal Firewall Engine
Internal namePERSFW
Original filenamePERSFW.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2002
Legal trademark
Product version2, 1, 5, 0
File version2, 1, 5, 0
Special build

Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:

Product nameKerio Personal Firewall
Company nameKerio Technologies
File descriptionKerio Personal Firewall Engine
Internal namePERSFW
Original filenamePERSFW.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2002
Legal trademark
Product version2, 1, 5, 0
File version2, 1, 5, 0
Special build

Digital signatures [?]

persfw.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

None of the 57 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the persfw.exe file.

None of the 57 anti-virus programs detected the persfw.exe file.

Folder name variants

persfw.exe may also be located in other folders than C:\Program Files\Kerio\Personal Firewall\. The most common variants are listed below:

TCP/UDP Listening Ports [?]

persfw.exe has been reported to listen on the following TCP/UDP ports.

PortProtocol# Occurrences
44334TCP v41

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD59a0940332f74d77210185b77e22295a0
SHA256b078665832c2542e4afc8ebfdcad8d0d52d03ec6ddb41bc1edbab6796e942b49

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to persfw.exe:

persfw.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

persfw.exe - Application Error. The instruction at "0xXXXXXXXX" referenced memory at "0xXXXXXXXX". The memory could not be "read/written". Click on OK to terminate the program.

Kerio Personal Firewall Engine has stopped working.

End Program - persfw.exe. This program is not responding.

persfw.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

persfw.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

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What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with persfw.exe. 0% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 3 users.

Votes
Keep100 %
3
Remove0 %
0

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