Technical FAQs

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

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
How Do I Restart All My FireDaemon Services via Batch File?
To restart all your FireDaemon Pro services with a batch file, create a batch file containing the following: REM For All Systems (Generic 32/64-b...
Wed, 10 Aug, 2016 at 6:25 AM
How Do I Run My Java Applications Successfully with FireDaemon Pro?
Java applications require some tweaking to work under FireDaemon Pro. All Java applications will run successfully under FireDaemon Pro providing the foll...
Mon, 19 Oct, 2020 at 8:18 AM
How Do I Let Regular Users Start or Stop Windows Services?
Granting users the right to start or stop Windows services is a Windows setting. As such, it cannot be edited directly within FireDaemon. T...
Wed, 10 Aug, 2016 at 6:21 AM