Machine is very slow when accessing it via Remote Desktop while TmListen.exe is enabled in Windows 8

- Updated:
- 30 Dec 2019
- Product/Version:
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 8.0
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 9.0
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 9.5
- Platform:
- Windows 2003 Enterprise
- Windows 2003 Server R2
- Windows 2003 Small Business Server
- Windows 2003 Small Business Server R2
- Windows 2003 Standard
- Windows 2008 Enterprise
- Windows 2008 Essential Business Server
- Windows 2008 Server R2
- Windows 2008 Small Business Server
- Windows 2008 Standard
- Windows 2011 Small Business Server Essentials
- Windows 2011 Small Business Server Standard
- Windows 2012 Enterprise
- Windows 2012 Web Server Edition
- Windows 8.1 32-bit
- Windows 8.1 64-bit

Summary

Machine running on Windows 8 is very slow when:

This issue happens because the Osprey architecture used hooks all of the TCP Traffic.

Details

To resolve this, add the Remote Desktop process in the Process Exception List of WFBS. Do the following:

Open the Security Server console.
Go to Preferences > Global Settings.
Go to the Desktop/Server tab.
Scroll down to find Web Reputation and URL Filtering section.
Under this section, type "mstsc.exe" in the field provided, and then click Add.
Click Save on the bottom of the page.