CIS - Disable Untill Next Reboot [M1986]

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Please add “Until Next Reboot” in the drop-down options for the “How long should it stay disabled?” prompt.

1. What actually happened or you saw:
15 minutes
30 minutes
60 minutes
Permanently

2. What you wanted to happen or see:
15 minutes
30 minutes
60 minutes
Until Next Reboot
Permanently

3. Why you think it is desirable:

This adds security value by ensuring the relevant feature is enabled in certain situations.
For example, if I disabled the firewall late at night to troubleshoot an application, I might forget to enable it before I power down because I’m tired.
Then, I might come back five days later and realize that the kids have been using the computer with a disabled Comodo firewall.

4. Any other information:
This feature exists in AVG AV products. I use this feature in a production setting in which the PC is used display video output using bloated presentation
software that I cannot optimize or replace. To prevent background programs from slowing things down I have to temporarily disable things like antivirus and system updates. I learned the hard way because an AVG missed antivirus scan decided to rerun during production hours.

Thanks :slight_smile:

2

…and also the same timer setup for HIPS! Why doesn’t HIPS have the same timer? The Devs are discriminating against HIPS. Maybe we should alert the ACLU? ;D

3

On my system (Windows 7 x64 with Comodo Free 8.2.0.4591) Comodo auto-starts every time I reboot even if manually closed for reasons such as you indicate. This applies to hard and soft reboots and simply logging in and out of any user account. I just select Exit from the systray context menu.

I see the convenience of the menu item but here at least the functionality is already present. HTH

4

Reboot should never been forced.

Also I lost several times all my work because I accidentely hit the allow button when the popup showed so an extra “are you sure” popup should ask for confirmation !!!