Comodo Firewall and AVG AntiVirus incompatibility issue.
I have finally found the origin of connection slow down on my computer and also why it was so difficult to reconnect after having been offline a while. It was also almost impossible to have a connection at the first time : I had to disconnect and kill all AVG services before but sometimes it wasn’t enough!
This is an incompatibility between AVG AntiVirus Free Edition (dunno about commercial version) and current and past version of Comodo Firewall.
Why am I so sure? Because to be able to install a new antivirus named “Active Virus Shield” by AOL/Kaspersky (free product by the way) I had to remove first AVG and guess what… all problem gone!!
I suspected that it was VMware Workstation the guilty but not at all!
I hope Comodo team will try it out and fix this issue soon.
I never have had any problems with AVG Free and Comodo both installed. Perhaps it IS an issue ‘within’ the VMware environment. From my personal experience, some certain programs have nasty issues trying to run within virtualization. I have not tried the combo within virtualization personally though.
AVG is not used in VMware environment and Comodo isn’t as well… I had those problems in a normal Windows XP admin session (but since VMware has been installed, drivers are loaded in memory when i boot).
How do you explain that since AVG Free Edition has been removed I don’t have any trouble anymore?
Note that with ZoneAlarm Free Edition I never had an issue (and WMware was already installed).
Well the point is that it isn’t ‘across the board’… (because I, along with lots of other people don’t have issues with both installed) so, that means it isn’t an issue of compatibility between AVG Free and Comodo. Perhaps you had/have a corrupt install of one or the other… Perhaps some other software is interfering… sandboxing? IDS? maybe something else…
This is an incompatibility between AVG AntiVirus Free Edition (dunno about commercial version) and current and past version of Comodo Firewall.
Why am I so sure? Because to be able to install a new antivirus named “Active Virus Shield” by AOL/Kaspersky (free product by the way) I had to remove first AVG and guess what… all problem gone!!
This has nothing that points to Comodo as the problem…