I have had comodo firewall pro now for about a year. I have always had good results with it until now. A few days ago, comodo kept giving me a message about firefox after an update was installed on my computer. It asked if I wanted to allow firefox even though I was using firefox at the time. I allowed it. Soon after that I found that some pages are not displaying properly. I am a writer and am not able to post my work online how because I can’t use HTML. I have an AOL email account as well as a yahoo email. I can access yahoo email by clicking on this link http://us.m.yahoo.com/p/mail?tsrc=rawfront which gives me the bare bones of the application and I cannot access AOL mail at all. Some internet pages have missing parts, the test on some pages is overlaped, or missing buttons and my IE tells me sometimes that I am working offline when I am not.
I managed to get instructions to allow firefox but the first instruction is to right click on the comodo icon in my tool tray then click on the security button but, there is no security button to click on. Can anyone give me instructions on how to configure comodo firewall to accept firefox?
Then click Application Monitor to the left and find firefox.exe. Double-click it and change the rule to TCP/UDP In/Out From IP Any To IP Any Where Source Port Is Any And Destination Port Is Any.
Ragwing, thank you so much for your speedy reply. You could probably tell that I am not too computer savvy and I appreciate your easy to understand explanation. I have, however run into another problem that I am not sure about. On my Application Conrtol Rules I have 14 firefox.exe. I have included them below. My question is…which one should I change if there is more than one C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe.
Again, thank you for your help and patience.
Darlene
-C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\3Planesoft_Screensaver_Manager.scr
Action: Allow
Rrotocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: In
–C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\3Planesoft_Screensaver_Manager.scr
Action: Allow
Protocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: Out
-C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
Action: Allow
Protocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: In
-C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\WINDOWS\explorer.exe
Action: Allow
Protocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: Out
-C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
Action: Allow
Protocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: In
-C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
Action: Allow
Protocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: Out
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\ArcSoft\PhotoImpression 5\photoimpression.exe
Action: Allow:
Protocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: In
-C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\ArcSoft\PhotoImpression 5\photoimpression.exe
Action: Allow
Protocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: In
-C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Real\RealPlayer\realplay.exe
Action: Allow
Protocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: In
-C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Real\RealPlayer\realplay.exe
Action: Out
Protocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: Out
-C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\Intel\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates\0\updater.exe
Action: Allow
Protocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: In
-C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\Intel\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Mozilla Firefox\updates\0\updater.exe
Action: Allow
Protocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: Out
-C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\YahooMessenger.exe
Action: Allow
Protocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: In
-C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\YahooMessenger.exe
Action: Allow
Protocol: TCP or UDP
Direction: Out
All the rules are for Firefox, but with different parents (application that launches Firefox).
Click any of the rules for each parent and make it both In/Out and it’ll halve your amount of rules.
Also for the problem with loading pages, does it work properly if you disable CFP? Do you get anything blocked that’s related with Firefox in the logs?
To answer your question, no. Pages loaded the same with or without CFP on. I didn’t get an error message from AOL mail…just a badly messed up homepage. I did get messages from Yahoo mail though. Each time one popped up and I closed it another popped up. They are listed below.
Yahoo! Mail expreienced a login error:
1…
Name: TypeError
Message:shortalias has no properties
lineNumber: 648
fileName:htty://ca.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.rand-30dsj9do5qso3
2…
Yahoo! Mail experienced a login error:
name:ReferenceError
message:setupInit is not defuned
lineNumber:693
fileName://ca.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.rand=30dsj9do5qso3
3…
Yahoo! Mail expreienced a login error:
name:ReferenceError
message:attachfoldernodestoFolders is not defined
lineNumber 712
fileName://ca.mg1.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.rand=30dsj9do5qso3
4…
unable to load javascript files.
Everything is back to normal now including the email.
Again thank you for your help, I appreciate it so much!
Darlene (:WIN)