Showing posts with label Windows Registry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows Registry. Show all posts

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Comodo Prevents Applications to Modify Windows Registry

Modifying Windows registry is a common task for applications. The installed Comodo Internet Security as the anti virus on my computer.  Each time I compile a native application and running it via the Embarcadero C++Builder, Comodo shows me a "Unrecognized Application" message and runs it in the Sand Box. 


I always click on the "Don't isolate it again" link on the Comodo message box. Usually after a few times of clicking on the mentioned link, Comodo will not show the message again. I thought that it remembers my answer and lets the application to run normally. 


When I called the functions which try to modify Windows registry, I noticed that it can not open the registry at all. This problem wastes lots of my time. I found that Comodo runs the application in the Sand Box, so it can not read or modify Windows registry keys values.


If you have such a kind of problem, check you anti virus which may prevent the application to have access to the Windows registry. For me, I disable the Defence+ feature of Comodo to be able to run the application normally when programming.