Up until yesterday I’ve been using Windows Vista Firewall, PeerGuardian2 and KAV 6 for protection. But I thought I’d give Comodo a go.
PG2 has done a fine job in blocking many attempts from outside, as the blocklists are extensive. But some strange things happened after I installed Comodo.
Fastest way to test, for me, that it worked was to fire up a torrent as usually there’s someone grabbing your IP and wants to test it out. And it took about 10 minutes before someone took the bait. It seemed the firewall blocked all attempts, which was nice.
After I turned the torrent off it still continued to block all connection attempts to the designated port and other attempts too, as it takes a while for the IP to get out of the shared cache. But after I rebooted shortly thereafter, no connections what so every was logged in the firewall.
Now, when I was using PG2 with Vista FW it continued to block these even after I rebooted, as my IP remained the same. Why didn’t Comodo pick anything up?
EDIT: One more thing, Comodo turned back on File Sharing and the Network Discovery function which I had turned off for a reason in Network Center. And I didn’t find any way to turn that off again in Comodo, as Windows referred to ‘other firewall’ to be able to turn those off again.
Up until yesterday I've been using Windows Vista Firewall, PeerGuardian2 and KAV 6 for protection. But I thought I'd give Comodo a go.
PG2 has done a fine job in blocking many attempts from outside, as the blocklists are extensive. But some strange things happened after I installed Comodo.
Fastest way to test, for me, that it worked was to fire up a torrent as usually there’s someone grabbing your IP and wants to test it out. And it took about 10 minutes before someone took the bait. It seemed the firewall blocked all attempts, which was nice.
After I turned the torrent off it still continued to block all connection attempts to the designated port and other attempts too, as it takes a while for the IP to get out of the shared cache. But after I rebooted shortly thereafter, no connections what so every was logged in the firewall.
Now, when I was using PG2 with Vista FW it continued to block these even after I rebooted, as my IP remained the same. Why didn’t Comodo pick anything up?
Assuming the torrent software was on your PC when CFP was installed it would have been seen as a “clean” file for outbound access. Is it correct to assume by your qoute that after 10 minutes, there was an attempted inbound request to your torrent port, which you BLOCKed?
If so, did you also select REMEMBER. If not, the BLOCK action is applied on a per session basis.
EDIT: One more thing, Comodo turned back on File Sharing and the Network Discovery function which I had turned off for a reason in Network Center. And I didn't find any way to turn that off again in Comodo, as Windows referred to 'other firewall' to be able to turn those off again.
These will become enabled if you have selected to discover new networks, during the CFP installation.
Well, the torrent file itself was not on my PC at the time. I started it from web. And the 10 minutes was not for blocking torrent traffic itself. That started right away, but the 10 minutes was the time before someone started to probe other ports looking for holes
And the strangest thing, because when I installed CFP I never got any option to select discover new networks. I saw a picture of that on the web, screenshot, and I wasn’t even prompted for it. As I’ve said in another post I run Vista Ultimate 32-bit. Don’t know if that’s got anything to do with just that.
I’m having the same problem myself, installed comodo in basic firewall mode. Can’t seem to turn off Network Discovery or File sharing. Searched this forum and the net and can’t find any solution, really starting to bug me.
When my network was detected by Comodo it gives you the option to make your computer visible on the network for file/printer sharing etc, I definetly did not tick the box for this as I don’t want my computer to be visible on the network.
