CPF scored "only" 95% at Matousek

[Karniaris]

Comodo firewall “only” scored 95 % at Matousek.

There was no update since end of May.

When will there be an update ???

Thanks for answering me

Greetings Karniaris

[Kyle142]

Hey Karniaris… You Have already asked this question in another thread and I answered you ??? ??? ??? ???
https://forums.comodo.com/leak_testingattacksvulnerability_research/cpil_suite_leak_tests-t26533.0.html;msg193305#msg193305

Repeat answer;

@Melih post:79

Hi Searinox

The issue was we never “tarted up” our code to make us look better by passing this or that test! We built our security product with the understanding of current threats and made sure our users were secured from these threats! Now, with Matousec funfair this philosophy was forced to change and we had to fix (ok it only took us less than an hour to put that fix into code of course plus QA etc…) but we did this NOT because we thought that would provide material additional security, but because of the Matousec situation eg: Marketing gimmick.

The point is: We build security products, our philosophy is to build a top notch security product to “secure our users against threats”. Our priorities are to protect against malware and NOT to pass some tests for marketing gains! Our instructions to our developers is not “come on guys lets figure out how we can pass these tests” but “to protect our users from threats”. Egemen would not talk to me if this was our strategy! Our belief is that if we build our security products to offer the best security possible, everything else will follow. We do NOT and never have had any strategy to go out of our way to pass this test or that test so that we can use it as a marketing gimmick!

So I do understand why you wanted us to test, and we have been pushed into corner by the gimmicky nature of what has happened and made an exception to “ask for test for marketing purposes” as passing those tests has no material impact on user security.

As I pointed out in my other email, I am confident that David will learn and improve his process as per our discussion with him. David did explain that he did not intend this to be a gimmicky funfair and this was a side affect of new methods he put in place and he is reviewing them to improve the methodology. So after showing my dissatisfaction if we can have a better testing method, than I consider my efforts to be worthwhile for our end users and any vendor that utilises David’s services.

thanks

Melih

[Jabbit]

The interesting thing is, while Comodo didn’t get as much points as other firewalls (it is 3th in the list), it is the only one that reached level 10+. I am not really sure what that 10+ means, since there is no level 11… but it still reaches places where the other ones don’t arrive…

[ailef]

u can test it yourself with the last build if want, u can get all tools to test it.
it’s not cause matousec said outpost and tallemu are the best firewalls that i’m going to uninstall comodo wich is the best firewall on xp or vista.

[Melih]

the reason why Matousec have an old version of CFP listed there is because unlike others, we haven’t “Paid for a test”. Its as simple as that!!

Like others said: you can use the tests to test CFP to see what it fails what it doesn’t and you will see that the information on Matousec site is rather out of date.

Melih

[darth]

Is there another truly independent site thats tests firewalls without charging for the tests. There should be.

[alaertsxan]

Well, there is

http://www.testmypcsecurity.com/

It’s a Comodo initiative and the test are done by the users themselves !

Xan

[Melih]

@eXPerience post:7

Well, there is

http://www.testmypcsecurity.com/

It’s a Comodo initiative and the test are done by the users themselves !

Xan

Indeed. The only way to remove this “pay for position/test” issue is to “empower” the users to run the tests themselves and be in control!

Now, if you think it thru, the only company who will do this is the company who has confidence in their product Hence we have empowered users to test and share these results with other users via testmypcsecurity!

Melih

[system]

Leak Tests are nothing. And what we are doing is right, Focusing on real threats, and the usability & the stability of a product with great things like TestMyPCSecurity & These Forums with a CEO (Melih) Here daily!

Thread Closed. All the info you need it said above by the CEO of COMODO.

Josh