Provide an option to REMOVE all/selected (CTRL+click) Trusted Software Vendors

[Guest]

[Jags_FL]

My view:

There must be an option to remove all and/or selected (by CTRL+click) vendors from "Trusted Software Vendors" (ver 5.0.162636.1135 > Defense+ > Computer Security Policy > Trusted Software Vendors tab), please...

Many thanks!

[Chiron]

+1
Agreed.

[SuperUser]

Agreed. Users should have more control over that list. In fact it would be better if a user was able to download/update the list manually and at will. The list should be blank during the initial install and there should be a button "Update Vendors List" or something similar to do it manually. Not everyone trusts every software vendor that is already on the list. The final user should make the determination as of which vendors he/she will trust and remove/add the rest.

P.S. Maybe the OP could add a poll? Some people will vote without leaving a comment.

[John Buchanan]

This has been an ongoing discussion since the Trusted Vendors list first appeared.

If you do not want to use this list, then disable it.
Otherwise, please put an end to this.  You either like the list and use it or you don't.

[Chiron]

Why not at least add an easy way of making exceptions or that sort of thing?

[Bad Frogger]

[at] John B,

It looks as though they have removed the option to not use the list.

I think, now, the only way is to switch to Paranoid Mode.

Bad

[John Buchanan]

Sandbox Settings, Automatically trust files from Trusted vendors.
Seems like the wrong place to put it, though.

[HeffeD]

This has been an ongoing discussion since the Trusted Vendors list first appeared.

If you do not want to use this list, then disable it.
Otherwise, please put an end to this.  You either like the list and use it or you don't.

I don't think a response of "disable it" is a suitable resolution to a poorly designed interface implementation. Comodo has long said they listen to their users. As you say, the trusted vendor has been discussed since its inception. I believe the tweaks people have been asking for are pretty easy to implement, yet the list functionality stays as it always has been. A bit of a kludgey, confusing mess... Why Comodo chooses to ignore this is beyond me.

As it sits, the list definitely has a purpose. It just needs to be more user friendly.

[Bad Frogger]

Nope.

From Help File -

Automatically trust the files from the trusted installers - Files that are generated by trusted installers are also trusted. This means that they will not be sandboxed.

The above is only for inheriting safe status of the installers created files. Am I wrong?

The pics show where it was and where it isn't now.

[John Buchanan]

You are very right, BF.  I scanned the windows too fast.

[Whoop-dee-doo]

Regarding a way to improve the trusted vendors list: see this post.

[SS26]

+1
v5.3...1216

[wasgij6]

the TVL should be used by default but for the users that want to remove some entries or disable all of it all together they should be able to. The user should be able to do what they want with the TVL.

[SS26]

Alas this "feature request" is nothing to Comodo judging by that fact TVL remains same like it was before version after version.  If people are right and this happens from the beginning of version 3 --> that means more than 3 years of disregard at the time of writing.

Sign below this words:

...Comodo has long said they listen to their users...
...Why Comodo chooses to ignore this is beyond me...

[Pryath]

I actually found this post from a mod in another thread from 2009:

Comodo has performed something of a balancing act regarding the Trusted Vendors List.The primary purpose is to reduce the large number of popups for safe applications,which was the major complaint with the earlier versions of CFP and CIS.Since it's easy enough to turn off automatic safelisting IMO Comodo has managed to keep the majority happy.

Great so piss off eveyone who didn't mind the popups.
I personally liked knowing when things were accessing my memory.
Thanks to the trusted vendor list, a trojan dropper signed by trend micro inc. was able to work successfully (good job Comodo!). When you add a trusted vendor list, all it does is provide one giant security hole for droppers which are falsely signed

Don't flip with your program, you had it good before. All the keymashing reres who don't want to know whats happening to their computers can stfu and go buy a mac IMO.
I picked Comodo because it was the best security software out there, and the programmers didn't have their heads up their asses when vista came out.
Give me back my security alert popups please, removing trusted vendors (such a large list) now takes me a ridiculous amount of time. Also, allow me to prevent Comodo from adding to it.

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