Technical FAQs

Find the answers to your most frequently asked FireDaemon product questions... along with a few Windows questions as well.

Error Popups Prevent My Application from Restarting
If your server or application fails to restart under FireDaemon Pro control due to an error popup getting in the way, then the following fix should solve t...
Thu, 3 May, 2018 at 2:38 PM
FireDaemon Pro and Data Execution Prevention (DEP)
All modern versions of FireDaemon software products are compiled with the /NXCOMPAT flag. There should be no reason for you to have to manually exclude the...
Sat, 11 Sep, 2021 at 7:03 PM
FireDaemon Fusion TLS / SSL Key Setup / Integration Guide
FireDaemon Fusion is a web application that allows you to control and manage FireDaemon Pro and Windows system services remotely via your web browser. Fir...
Sat, 21 Aug, 2021 at 7:41 AM
firedaemon.exe: System Cleanup After Trojan/Worm Compromise
Introduction FireDaemon is a legitimate product that has been included, illegally, as part of the payload in a series of Worms and Trojans that exploit va...
Mon, 5 Dec, 2022 at 6:10 AM
Give A Normal User Rights To Control A Service With subinacl
Normally starting and stopping a service in Windows requires administrator privileges, but you can assign a normal user the right to control an individua...
Thu, 23 Mar, 2023 at 6:52 AM
How Can I Automate FireDaemon Pro Licensing?
FireDaemon Pro can be licensed at the command line. To do this, open an elevated Command Prompt, then type the the following commands: cd "C:...
Fri, 15 Sep, 2017 at 12:30 PM
How Can I Automate Service Installation via Batch File?
  If you are regularly changing a service's configuration you might want to wrap the entire stop, remove, reinstall, start procedure in a batch file. ...
Thu, 3 Jan, 2019 at 5:00 PM
Determine what ports a FireDaemon Pro service or Windows service is listening on
If the program you are running under FireDaemon Pro control binds to a socket, is relatively straight forward to determine what what protocol, address o...
Sat, 8 Jan, 2022 at 8:28 AM
How Can I Stop My Application From Popping Up Dialog Boxes?
When applications run under FireDaemon, they may pop up a dialog box. This will cause the service to appear "hung" due to the dialog needing...
Wed, 31 Aug, 2016 at 4:50 AM
How Does Graceful Shutdown Work?
When stopping an application, FireDaemon Pro attempts to stop the running application "gracefully" in preference to just killing the process. You...
Thu, 26 Sep, 2019 at 9:16 PM