Dear Comodo,
I regret very much that I have to tell you that I had to uninstall all Comodo products I had on my computers.
Comodo Firewall 2.4 couldn't remember the programmes I had allowed to pass. This was very annoying. I liked the firewall very much, with just one exception: it can't stealth port 113 (IDENT), which I regretted.
So when version 3.0 was published I installed it on two of my computers. On one computer it ran without a hitch, but took some workload to run (both in memory as in CPU time). On my master computer however I immediately came across the 100% CPU time problem that has been much discussed in this forum. I had to uninstall it, and to turn back to version 2.4, where I immediately ran across the memory problem again.
Since this summer I had also BOClean running on my 4 computers (of which 3 are desktops, the fourth one being a laptop). This afternoon BOClean stopped working properly. I heard my master computer's fan coming on, checked the cause, and saw that BOClean consumed over 50% of CPU-time. I let it run for an hour or so, hoping it was a scan of some sort, but I don't believe that was what was going on.
I even restarted the computer (which took some time because it had slowed down to less than 10% of its normal speed. To no avail, after restarting BOClean went on consuming CPU time as before.
I couldn't access the configuration screen, I couldn't see what was going on. This led to just one option: Uninstall.
*** Modification Friday 21 Dec.: I still had BOClean on my music computer, and this one went haywire this morning - exactly the same problem as on my main computer. After uninstalling BOClean this computer ran as smoothly as ever again. ***
I like Comodo's mission and views, and I like the style of your programmes, but I can't work with programmes that I can't control, that don't show what they are doing, that I can't access at all times.
Dear Comodo, I will regularly check whether your programmes have become less buggy, but for the time being I will not use them again.
I use PCTools Firewall now, and I must say, this has accellerated my computer considerably - and although the test results are not as good as Comodo's, I have some confidence.
Sorry, things are as they are.
I hope to come back soon.
Yoss
