cmdagent.exe uses 100% CPU [NOT RESOLVED!!]

[Guest]

[morgrum]

...I suspect these guys may be trolls trying to discourage others from trying the fantastic program that is CIS.

Haha... sure it might look that way.  I want to love CIS, I really do.  It' s just that I've been "trying" to love it for almost 3 years now, and although loads of new features have been added, it just hasn't yet become quite as mature as I would like. 

However, I would encourage anyone to use it if they have a machine over which they need a high granularity of control over process execution and network filtering.   It has an impressive set of configuration options, and is probably the best in its class. It just still needs some improvement.

[powerc]

I have 2 PCs running IE8 under XP SP3. Today both units upgraded Comodo firewall and since then the browsers both run incredibly slowly, any ideas?

[EricJH]

Do you have still have Safe Surf installed? If you do please uninstall it.

The toolbar has been replaced by the new Hopsurf toolbar and the memory firewall is now part of CIS.

[Gaver]

Hello,

I was hoping to ifnd a solution from Comodo on how to fix the issue of cmdagent.exe consuming 99% of the cpu resources on my WinXP Pro system.

It began consuming the cpu completely this am, and when I did a reboot it prevented Win XP Professional from booting up.

That's a pretty significant problem in my book - one that will result in mass abandonment of Comodo Antivirus if not resolved pretty rapidly.

I finally did a Safe Boot and was able to uninstall Comodo Antivirus and now the computer boots rapidly and the internet connection (webpage loads) are 40 or 50 % faster without it installed.

Is there an explanation or hot fix available?

Also, shouldn't there be a timeout variable built into the comodo processes that prevents it from running beyond a few seconds and displays an error message prompting for user intervention or assistance when it gets hung up?


Like - ERROR: Comdo is unable to establish a connection with the Virus Update Service. Please check your internet connection. Comodo will make another attempt in 30 minutes.

Gaver Powers

[Ronny]

Please post here:
Seems like an issue with AV database 2526
https://forums.comodo.com/other_general_gui_etc_bugs/cmdagentexe_hogging_cpu-t46124.0.html

[PhyxionNL]

Pure sadness this

[Chiram]

Hey,
i got also the 99% Problem with the cmdagent.exe everytime i turn Firefox on... I put it into trusted apps and stuff but nothing helps... Its the newest version i guess (3.12.111745.560) and i didnt change anything since the last time it ran properly...
Can someone help me? :-)

[Ronny]

Please post here:
https://forums.comodo.com/other_general_gui_etc_bugs/cmdagentexe_hogging_cpu-t46124.0.html

[gnossos]

removed bases.cav file
ran diagnostics
re booted

Now Defense Plus not functioning
(diagnostics does not find issue)
Virus Signature Database Version = O

Update does not function, says up to date... "Wednesday October 7th bla bla blah"

[Ronny]

Official post of Egemen, please read:

Workaround for the 99% CPU Problem with the latest Virus DB Updates

[Ronny]

If it's displaying version 0 then normally it would be in the middle of an update.
Can you check and see if cmdagent.exe is running ? and if not can you type this in a command-box

net start cmdagent


See if that works ?

[salmon]

Computer downstairs now has this problem bye bye comodo on that computer?

[Dch48]

It seems to be fixed. I first booted up at 4:30PM EST and DB is at 2525 and no problems at all. I guess I missed all the fun 

[movrshakr]

Uninstalling Comodo has solved my "both CPUs at 100%" (making computer completely unusable) problem.  I saw the issue in another thread on here which seemed to tie it to Firefox as well.  So, I decided to uninstall Comodo--having tried "thousands" of other things unsuccessfully--and it worked.  Vista Home Premium BTW.

I don't know what version or db I had as it is uninstalled, but it was recent, and kept itself updated.  The problem started  about Oct 7, 2009 +/- a day.

The symptom first began in the middle of a well-working session.  I tried to open a txt document, and the app never came up.  Processors were both 100% and nothing could be done, as there were insufficient cycles left over to do anything.  Upon reboot, the bring up time went to near infinity, seeming to start just before the login dialog.  Everything was bogged down from then on, and I really could not even get to a full boot completion with everything "up."  Had to run in safe mode.

This is a great disappointment, as I had switched to Comodo in order to eliminate a Zonealarm-Firefox conflict which caused Firefox to suddenly refuse to load any page, requiring a reboot to clear (could not kill the process by any means known to man).  Now I can't use Zonealarm or Comodo.

[Dch48]

The problem was caused by a bad Virus database update and has been fixed. You can use Comodo now with no problems.

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