COMODO Internet Security 6.0.264710.2708 Released!

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@HeffeD post:160

Perhaps you were unaware that since it’s inception, Comodo’s AV has had a mode called Stateful. This will ensure that your game files will not be scanned every time they are executed. In previous versions, the stateful flag was reset when the AV database was updated, so it’s conceivable that if you only run the game a single time a day, then all of the files would be subject to a scan. But with CIS 6, it has a more permanent cache state, similar to Avast, whereby a file will only be rescanned if it has been modified.

This is, in effect, only scanning a file when something new is written. The file is actually only scanned when it is executed, but this scan will only happen if the content is new.

Have not seen the effect of this “Permanent” cache in action yet in my 2 months of CIS6 experience.

It does not make much of a difference compared to CIS 5 in scans (realtime or full). Only very successive scans (I mean scans that take place immediately after one another) are quick. If we wait for one or two days and scan again, it takes the same amount of time again.

Here is the reply from COMODO Devs in this regard…

@MichelB post:11

Hi Siva,

I have heard back from the guys at CIS. They say:-

“it may re-scan already scanned files if virus DB is updated and file is NOW known. So in this case not just changed files.”

Regards,
Michel.

It seems clearly there is a big room for improvement in this area.

Besides, having an option to configure individual scan preferences would be great. (I really like the way ESET allows to configure it’s AV. You can really fine tune it in a very granular way.)

I miss that level of AV configuration in CAV.