Give all that for FREE!!! What's the Catch? How does Comodo Make Money?

[Guest]

[panic]

Is Comodo easy enough to figure out? Yes with an if, no with a but. Yes, if you are willing to try and understand what it is doing. No, if you think it is the magic bullet and can work out telepathically what you want. 

If you can get your head around the broader concepts of IP ports and IP addresses, then the network rules side fo things isn;t too hard at all. It's really just a case of thinking, "What do I want to get in or out and what does it need to get in or out?" Most times, CFP will provide sufficient information in its alerts and you'll be able to nut out whether this is a legitimate inbound or outbound attempt and clicking ALLOW will create an appropriate rule. The main thing is to actually read the alerts, as they are pretty informative, rather than just clicking ALLOW.

If you follow the default options during installation, after rebooting your PC will be scanned for malware, after which it will be assumed to be clean. The HIPS component (Defense+) will then run in "Clean PC" mode

From the time you set the slider to 'Clean PC Mode', Defense+ will learn the activities of the applications currently installed on the computer while all new executables introduced to the system are monitored and controlled. This patent-pending mode of operation is the recommended option on a new computer or one that the user knows to be clean of malware and other threats. From this point onwards Defense+ will alert the user whenever a new, unrecognized application is being installed. In this mode, the files in 'My Pending Files' are excluded from being considered as clean and are monitored and controlled.

Clean PC mode allows all executables on the PC at the time of installation to run, but monitors and alerts to new executables. As such, you shouldn't get too many pop-ups, and the ones you do get are worthy of your attention.

IPSec isn't something you can do in isolation. It's something that is "agreed" upon between two ends - i.e. You and the site you are attempting to contact have to be running mutually configured IPSec.

Cheers,
Ewen :-)

[christiandominic]

Nice one. I've been kicking around in this business since the late 70s, and your approach is just what we all dreamed of when we were young and idealistic. From paper tape to firewalls and viruses - who'd have thunk it?

May your god go with you.     

[Melih]

Nice one. I've been kicking around in this business since the late 70s, and your approach is just what we all dreamed of when we were young and idealistic. From paper tape to firewalls and viruses - who'd have thunk it?

May your god go with you.     

Thank you christiandominic, we really appreciate the feedback.

Melih

[ranko_6]

I usually didn't have any firewall since most of them were ether too annoying or too faulty. Well, then things went "wrong" and our university professor at Security of Information Systems class recommended COMODO as one of better firewalls. I tried it and can't say anything bad about it. Easy to use, I love learning feature (so far it didn't made any mistakes but at same time saved me from lost of defining), it blocks literally everything I want to block, not like some others where programs go thru it even if you block them and saved me lots of data considering that only by using COMODO firewall I found out that I had malwave in my computer, which I can't say about antivirus I was using at that time...

Great job and thank you for this fine product. (L)

[mynameismac]

if it's true that it's free and there's no catch, i think i'll make use of the chance to try the product...
thanks...
hopefully to the end of my internet life!

 (B)

[psych1610]

if it's true that it's free and there's no catch, i think i'll make use of the chance to try the product...
thanks...
hopefully to the end of my internet life!

 (B)

It is true. There is no catch. Just sit back, enjoy, and let Comodo kick malware ass.

[PauliH]

I just registered to say thanks for a very nice free firewall. I got it recommended elsewhere but didn't bother to install at the time, was perfectly happy with Windows Firewall since my browsing and downloading habits 99% of the time only include sites I would consider safe. But the that last 1% came and somehow came back to bite me in the ass.

All of a sudden I had trouble even connecting to the internet. When I looked at my connection, there were being thousands of packets being sent each second. Every scan I performed came back with nothing, and the only thing out of the ordinary seemed to be ekrnl.exe (a part of NOD32) using irregular CPU.

Installing CPF gave me the possibility to see exactly what was taking up my entire connection, and allthough no even your malware scan picked up anything, I saw that ekrnl.exe wasn't just using CPU it was using up my entire connection, sending and receiving high amounts of data every second. While I haven't found the source yet, uninstalling NOD32 gave me the Internet connection back giving me the opportunity to go to posting HiJackThis logs etc. so I can get to the root of the problem.

Also unlike many other firewalls I have tried in the past, it does not interfere with trusted apps.

I have only tried it for the last two hours, but very happy with it so far. Easy on CPU and RAM even.

Cheers


PauliH

[psych1610]

I just registered to say thanks for a very nice free firewall. I got it recommended elsewhere but didn't bother to install at the time, was perfectly happy with Windows Firewall since my browsing and downloading habits 99% of the time only include sites I would consider safe. But the that last 1% came and somehow came back to bite me in the ass.


I have only tried it for the last two hours, but very happy with it so far. Easy on CPU and RAM even.

Cheers


PauliH

Hi and welcome to the forum PauliH!! Glad you found Comodo Firewall! Hopefully it'll be able to help you out of whatever mess Windows got you into   The firewall is getting even better as time goes on so it'll be very exciting to see!!

Once again, welcome!

Dave

[stradivariuus]

OUR NATIONAL CONSUMMERS ASSOCIATION RECOMMENDED COMODO FIREWALL PRO AS THE BEST FIREWALL AROUND AND A MUST HAVE ON THE PC. I MUST SAY THAT THE ASHAMPOO FREE FIREWALL WAS ALSO RECOMMENDED AT THE SAME LEVEL AS COMODO FIREWALL PRO 

[Melih]

OUR NATIONAL CONSUMMERS ASSOCIATION RECOMMENDED COMODO FIREWALL PRO AS THE BEST FIREWALL AROUND AND A MUST HAVE ON THE PC. I MUST SAY THAT THE ASHAMPOO FREE FIREWALL WAS ALSO RECOMMENDED AT THE SAME LEVEL AS COMODO FIREWALL PRO 

thank you for this stradivariuus!
we really appreciate it!
do you have a link for it by any chance?

thank you
Melih

[Haos]

Great work. I really appreciate honest approach as Comodo creators are presenting, happy to see that both sides can profit of this situation. I switched for Comodo from very pro but unfriendly Jetico, also had several other HIPS solutions, none of them was perfect. All my hopes are for Comodo right now. Using it on four different boxes, also installed it on several PC`s i was servicing.

My fear right now is with v3 Windows 2003 box. I`m running one as a home server, still with Comodo v2. Everything else is on v3. I am aware that those things can take time, though i would be a lot calmer if some official statement on Comodo v3 Win2k3 support was made. Up to now i found no official yes/no answer on this topic.

  Both thumbs up! (R)

[Luketan]

Always remember, the only person who will ever tell you "This is the only thing you'll ever need" is the salesman that only has one thing to sell. 

Well or a comodo fanboy. I've seen moderators and
heroes state with 100% confidence that comodo defense+ is the ultimate security. or that comodo "stops them all"...

[Melih]

Well or a comodo fanboy. I've seen moderators and
heroes state with 100% confidence that comodo defense+ is the ultimate security. or that comodo "stops them all"...

ultimate can be only within the context of what is available to one. If you know of any other security product like CFPv3 with D+ that can prevent against more malware we would love to hear and learn from it. Nothing is perfect hence everything can be improved.

Melih

[panic]

Well or a comodo fanboy. I've seen moderators and
heroes state with 100% confidence that comodo defense+ is the ultimate security. or that comodo "stops them all"...

And, equally you have seen, and choose not to mention, moderator statements like the following

Unfortunately, I have to joust around the topic of which is best and why you should choose Comodo and brand X will cause your genes to wither etc. I'm not an employee of Comodo, just an unpaid volunteer on these forums. As such, my opinion should have little weight and should never be taken as the official Comodo line.

I don't know you and you don't know me. If would be foolish on my behalf if I categorically told you what to use and ludicrous on your behalf if you believed me.   I don't know your experience, your expectations, your security requirements and your computing preferences. Any advice I could offer would be merely an opinion, expressed in light of personal experience in a set of circumstances that would be radically different to yours.

Whether you should entrust your PC security to this company as opposed to the company you're currently throwing money at can only be answered by Comodo. May I suggest you send a PM to Melih on this.

In terms of my personal experience, I have found CFP to be superior to every other firewall I"ve tried (which includes all thiose mentioned in your post and several others you may not have heard of). I have found it easier to define application types, rules etc. simpler to follow its logic in why things do or don't happen, incredibly powerful HIPS (Defense+), incredibly configurable and, once the dust settles after installing, not too pop-up intensive.

I like it. I recommend it. But that should carry as much weight as spit in the rain. Each individual instance of security needs to be made in the context of its intended use.

The above quote was a mere two or three replies below the line you chose to quote.

Please, be fair, if nothing else.

Ewen :-)

[gibran]

So you are okay with people saying comodo is the ultimate in security? Or that comodo "Stops them all" ?

I guess if there was a topic were something like that it was posted you already replied to it.

Anyway AFAIK Egemen (CFP Lead programmer) never stated something like that.

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