I’ve been having similar issues–new installs of CIS seem to accept all kinds of things that they should be screening out.
Sorry, I’m not sufficiently expert to give details–or even understand which of my problems were caused by viruses and which by CIS bugs.
I’m thinking that there’s stuff out there that pre-convinces CIS it is legit, usually by disguising itself as something that IS. And then CIS lets it in, and it gets trusted, and does all kinds of bad stuff undercover.
For example: I found it quite odd that the last virus I had managed to disable links in Dragon to cleanup programs at BleepingComputer–while InternetExplorer was working just fine.
Yesterday, I had uninstalled Java and Flash and QuickTime on the laptop (and manually removed the folders). Yet somehow, a website was able to run UTube anyway, and next thing I new, there was a pop-up asking me to UPGRADE Flash! CIS should catch that the programs are not installed (or have been uninstalled), and should ask me if I want them before just “assuming” that they are always trusted.
Is there some way to set a new install to remove all previous permissions? That would be a real help for anyone who was trying to remove a virus. Because some of these suckers don’t trigger things until they act, and if Comodo has pre-cleared them…
You can make a new thread out of this if you want to…but I’m pretty sure it’s the same problem as before, just dressed up a bit.
I moved this to its own topic as that was a very old bug report. Before creating a bug report for this let’s first see if we can figure out a way to solve this.
Which version of CIS do you have installed?
Can you please let us know how you have CIS configured?
Screenshots would be helpful.
Part of the YouTube videos are also being served using the HTML 5 video tag. For those videos you don’t need the Flash Player to see the video. Your browser is supporting the HTML 5 video tag. From the top of my head I can tell that Opera, Firefox and Chromium based browsers support HTML 5 video tag.
Is there some way to set a new install to remove all previous permissions? That would be a real help for anyone who was trying to remove a virus. Because some of these suckers don't trigger things until they act, and if Comodo has pre-cleared them....
You can make a new thread out of this if you want to…but I’m pretty sure it’s the same problem as before, just dressed up a bit.
You can always decide to import and activate a factory clean configuration. The factory default configurations can be found in the CIS installation folder. In the process you need to give the configuration profile a new name. Give it an applicable name like CIS Proactive Security New.