CIS 6 closes often, and you can easily kill its processes

Comodo Internet Security - CIS Install / Setup / Configuration Help - CIS
#1

It is normal often CIS 6 closes? That I did not find more on the toolbar to reactivate it I double click on start programs, but the problem is not only that, I also noticed that task manager can easily close the processes of life as well as cmdagent.exe all the others, I can easily pretty much neutralize, I state that I also uninstalled and reinstalled several times but the music does not change, this does not happen with version 5, which of course I put. It is a bug? Operating system Windows XP SP3

#2

Starting with V6 task manager can kill CIS processes. That is intended behavior. However, malware would not be able to do the same.

However, can you please comment about what you mean when you say that CIS closes itself? Do you mean that it randomly crashes? Please elaborate about this.

Thanks.

#3

I was told by a mod (cannot remember which one!) That Comodo can be killed via task manager, but a malware script, or a written script could not kill Comodo v6

#4

I just put this to a little test.

I created a basic (and horrible) c++ program, basically it just calls commands to the cmd.

#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>


int main() 
{
	system("taskkill /F /IM cmdagent.exe"); //kills cmdagent.exe
	system("pause"); //pauses so I can read any errors showing
}

So the results of my testing:

  • Killing cmdagent.exe from killswitch: cmdagent.exe is killed.
  • With BB and HIPS OFF and executing test.exe without administrator privileges: cmdagent.exe is not killed.
  • With BB and HIPS OFF and executing test.exe with administrator privileges: cmdagent.exe is killed.
  • With BB ON and HIPS OFF and executing test.exe without administrator privileges: cmdagent.exe is not killed.
  • With BB ON and HIPS OFF and executing test.exe with administrator privileges: cmdagent.exe is not killed.
  • With BB OFF and HIPS ON and executing test.exe without administrator privileges: cmdagent.exe is not killed.
  • With BB OFF and HIPS ON and executing test.exe with administrator privileges: cmdagent.exe is not killed.

I feel that testing with both BB and HIPS on isn’t really necessary since both of these blocked the program from shutting down cmdagent.exe.

#5

At koldy. I would be interested to know this too.

#6

CIS does not block, but often I don’t find more in the taskbar, then I make double click on menu in CIS programs. CIS ok again on the taskbar.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled and now everything ok.