ISCA is the main one we use that is ISO certified
AV-Test is another one that we use.
ICSA, not ISCA. 
And what about West Coast Labs?
http://www.westcoastlabs.com/about/testLabAccred/
We give our product for free. Testing organisations cost money. We have 2 respectable ones that we feel is enough to give 3rd party validation on top of over 75 Million user validation we have. Lets not be greedy 
No, you got me wrong…
Doesn’t Comodo have West Coast Labs certificate too?
Or has it expired?
Comodo has done well with AV-TEST. AV-Comparatives seems to give good scores to products which are so-so. Even Symantec withdrew from AV-Comparatives because they did not like the group’s testing methodology.
I personally think that Melih and his team do an excellent job with an excellent product which is solid, powerful and very secure! AV-TEST gave Comodo 6/6 for protection. What does that tell you, plus they test the product using tones of malware samples.
So, Comodo CIS has pass 3 tests from respectable testing organisations who are ISO certified.
They are :
- ICSA
- AV-Test
- West Coast Labs
And the testing results are still valid.
feel like we are running away from the question!
This is important to answer:
Some thing you can test at home for yourself.
What I’m interested in is in Chip.de they say AV Comparatives tested 17 firewalls for them (you have list of those and results in text) but in AV Comparatives pdf which is basis for text there are only 15 firewalls tested.
So where did Comodo and Gdata tests and results came from? That alone makes story dodgy.
“Neben der Windows-eigenen - und damit kostenlosen - Lösung finden sich mit Zone Alarm, Comodo und Emsisoft nur noch drei weitere Gratis-Firewalls im Test. Die können jedoch bei weitem nicht mit der Schutzwirkung der Kauf-Software mithalten und landen dementsprechend auf mittelmäßigen bis schlechten Plätzen.”
The three also free firewalls, tested next to windows fw, can not hold up to the paid softwares by far and land on the middle to bad places. (While the paid ones allready werent recommended).
My opinion is, you cant recommend comodo default anymore. Because of the installer AND because of settings. For example, block alarms>allow… added things, cloud, click control and its transmission etc.
But what is really concerning is the remote access test fail. This mentioned test was about public networks. How is it possible to create a remote access through comodo?
The plus point for comodo is, that you can customize it. I tried it with winwall, it was a pain.
On the other hand, you HAVE to customize comodo until its in recommendable state.
While winwall makes it terrible to have control over outgoing.
Chip allways recommended comodo. So it would be interesting to get an official statement how comodo failed in this test. Especially the - remote access.
“++”, “+” or “-” mean nothing. Where’s the detailed review of the COMODO firewall?
Moreover this test is ridiculous, it’s just a shallow test of the network firewall (there isn’t even an ARP spoofing test) and it doesn’t test the application firewall which is a core feature of a desktop firewall (still, CIS default settings are pretty weak).
Conclusion from COMODO TEAM posts to the only important answers related with this topic
can we try not to avoid it and discuss why the performance was so poor?
No COMODO team will continue deviating the attention for the fact that CIS FW failed in a test with all kind of useless and off topic comments
can Comodo replicate the test a give a proper explanation?
No we don’t care about the security or if the fw has any bug, we are going to ignore the report, and say that we are the best in the world
Is a design problem or can be solve changing the configuration?
Who cares right? we are the best
;D
Now wait for reponses…
I hope this time the responses would be more technical and less commercial.
I second that…
Another person that says “Hey, my friend bypassed comodo” without posting proof of this.
guess what? I’ve bypassed NSA firewalls last night. The proof? Who cares…
me too…
My response was to uninstall CIS for the last time
I can excuse a security fail even if it is as grave as this one
I can’t excuse the irresponsible and condescending way of Mr M. reaction
goodbye
If you really are involved in computer security testing then you should know that the parameters under which the test was run are as important at the test itself. It is disappointing that the default CIS config seems to have allowed access that we would not wish. However, it was not CIS itself which failed, simply the settings in the default config.
You will (or should) be very well aware that it’s extraordinarily difficult with a product as configurable and potentially complex as CIS to provide novice and non-technical users with a default config that provides reasonable security without introducing too many obstacles and decision boxes. Had the default config prevented the accesses (as it could so easily have done) there would almost certainly have been complaints that CIS is too complicated for novice users to use.
There is no magic bullet in security as you well know and it’s very easy to criticise. Perhaps you might more usefully suggest what default config CIS should ship with in order to achieve the right balance between security and ease of use?
My opinion is the following.
Solely based on my experience:
COMODO has been the best security app I’ve had.
Protected me 100%. It was always stable. Be it on win XP,
Vista, 7 and now 8.1.
Always detected what it needed and blocked what it shouldn’t.
For the people that complain COMODO is not good: It can protect you
100%, but it’s 95% automatic and 5% manual, based on Defense+ and other
components which ask YOU for an answer. If you don’t know or allow what it shouldn’t be,
then COMODO can’t protect you any longer.
For example, when you see D+ alert that Driver wants to install, unless you don’t
install a device yourself and the prompt pops out of the blue, that is a ROOTKIT.
Just an example.
You need to learn how to use all the features of COMODO in order to have 100%
security. Because it really delivers what it promises.
This is my opinion about COMODO and I am very happy with it
The user should also know about security basics, not just rely
on the antivirus. If the user doesn’t educate himself, then protection
will never be 100%.
Not even from COMODO.