Sygate Firewall broken?
 

I have a very strange problem.

I installed a new Nforce 4 chipset Motherboard with an Athlon 64 3000+ and 1 gig dual channel memory.

Installed all my software and everything was running fine....up untill I installed Sygate!

After the install I had to do the required reboot and as soon as I got back into XP, the dreaded BSOD would pop up saying that teefer.dll was trying to reference read only memory.

I unstalled completely, including cleaning the registry, and reinstalled many times. No go. I even tried a new beta of the Pro version... same problem.

Installed Kerio now and everything seems fine.

Any ideas on solving the sygate problem?

Cheerz
Dave:eek:

Nix sygate and try somthing different. Maybe that version of Sygate is incompatible with 64-bit hardware. The amd 64's are great but they are relativly new. I had all sorts of problems when I first got mine, some of my fav programs wouldn't work at all even though I was using standard Windows XP and not the X64 Version. For that same reason I'm still holding off on installing X64 because I doubt it's stability at the present time.

Thanks for the reply DopeWeasel. I did not consider the fact that it is because of the new processor. Anyways, gone back to Kerio and things seems to be running along smoothly. Will miss Sygate, but life goes on.

Cheerz
Dave

Is there anyone else using Sygate with a nforce4 chipset motherboard and a AMD 64 processor?

Cheerz
Dave

Hi Voodoo,

I am guessing this is something to do with Data Execution Prevention in System Properties > Advanced - Performance > Settings. I am wondering how Sygate will respond if you have this turned off?

To turn DEP completely off you have to edit the boot.ini so that it will read something like:

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windo ws Server 2003, Enterprise (no DEP)" /fastdetect /NoExecute=AlwaysOff

Now have Sygate installed and reboot your computer.

Cheers,
McoreD

Well Sygate works fine here with DEP on but you never known. ;)

Well I could find zero information on teefer.dll . :(

Well that is besides the fact that it is not even on my PC anywhere!

How about trying to delete that file or unregister it at least?

Or is it needed for 64bit computers or something?

Also, what are the properties of the dll ? You know simply right click on it and properties. Mind sending it to me. Simply zip or rar it up and send to war59312 @ yahoo.com . Thanks !

Will, sorry bout the misinfo, it is teefer.sys and is installed by Sygate Firewall.

I see that you do have Sygate, so you have the teefer.sys file on your system.

Can be found in the /sygate directory and in windows/sys32 durectory.

Any help will be appreciated.

Cheerz
Dave

Hey,

Oh ok.

Yeah in that case it looks like Teefer.sys is not compatiable with 64bit nor Longhorn.

Maybe tech support will send you a 64bit version ?

So you did this then?

http://www.hackfix.org/software/uninstall/sygate.html

Take Care,
Will

Will, I am using XP 32bit. Don't think I need 64bit teefer.sys? Anything else to try?

And yes, I did use the way you posted to uninstall and re-install

Cheerz
Dave

HI Dave,

I have a Nforce4 board + the same CPU and 1 GB of mem and I have sygate installed and it's running fine. I am using Windows XP Pro (32 bit version).

I'm using Pro 5.6 Build 2808 ... ...

I'm also running NVidia Firewall with it (don't rate it that much).

I know this don't help much other then confirming it does work with a GForce 4 MOBO. I use a Gigabyte MOBO though.

Cheers