How to remove an kpf4ss error

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Kpf4ss.exe file information

The process known as Kerio Personal Firewall (version 4 - Service) or Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall (version 4 - Service) or Sunbelt Firewall Service or Sunbelt Kerio Firewall Service

belongs to software Kerio Personal Firewall (version 4) or Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall (version 4) or Sunbelt Personal Firewall

by Sunbelt Software (www.sunbelt-software.com) or Kerio Technologies (www.kerio.com).

Description: kpf4ss.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files" - typically C:\Program Files\Kerio\Personal Firewall 4\. Known file sizes on Windows 7/XP are 1,617,920 bytes (32% of all occurrences), 1,368,064 bytes and 8 more variants.
The program is not visible. Program listens for or sends data on open ports to a LAN or the Internet. It is not a Windows system file. The application can be uninstalled in the Control Panel. kpf4ss.exe is able to hide itself. Therefore the technical security rating is 42% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.
If problems with Kerio Personal Firewall or Sunbelt Kerio Personal Firewall come up, you can do the following:

visit the vendor’s support site
look for a new, improved version
uninstall the associated program (Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove programs)

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Important: Some malware camouflages itself as kpf4ss.exe, particularly when located in the c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Therefore, you should check the kpf4ss.exe process on your PC to see if it is a threat. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. This was one of the Top Download Picks of The Washington Post and PC World.

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User Comments

Its the service for Kerio Firewall
Prometeo (further information)

kerio personal firewall
Deniz Oguz (further information)

Firewall
Stefan

That is eating up my PC's CPU time, average 98%, and slowing down all applications. Everything seems to work fine without it except for Kerio Personal Firewall 4.
Earl

It is Kerio Firewall, awesome protection, I love it!
Fred

i have had this firewall now for several month and it is the lower version of kerio i have had no problems with it However the payed version will give protection like you never saw beforeAND ONLY YOU WILL DECIDE WHAT WILL HAPPEN ON YOUR PC
lou651

Kerio Personal Firewall
Yamon

It is the Kerio Personal Firewall program. needs to be restarted several times a day otherwise it eats up CPU resources
Peter Munro

Kerio Personal Firewall, It eats up a lot of CPU for me, but also supposed to protect from viruses.
Jane

Kerio firewall - restricts downloads to 100KBps for unknown reasons, so disable it for big stuff.
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Summary: Average user rating of kpf4ss.exe: based on 18 votes with 10 reviews.

13 users think kpf4ss.exe is essential for Windows or an installed application. 3 users think it's probably harmless. 2 users suspect danger. 1 user doesn't grade kpf4ss.exe ("not sure about it").

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