Thanks.
I have actually got it set like that but it still connects automatically when i boot up.It is this that i am trying to avoid if possible.
Thanks again for your trouble.
Philip
Philip,
If it’s automatically checking when you boot/login, you have a couple options (as I see it).
- Create a rule in your firewall to Ask for permission before that executable can access the internet, instead of automatically Allow
- Turn Off Automatic Updates and do it manually when you’re connected.
In order to get as frequent updates as may be available, I’d avoid turning updates off unless necessary; I’d try option 1 first (which, if you have CFP, that’s very easy to do, and very effective - it’s what I use for the firewall updater, since it doesn’t have a scheduler at all).
LM
Thanks a lot
I do have CFP
Would you just show me how?
I have only been using CFP for a short while and i am not yet totally familiar with it.
I would be most grateful.
Thanks again.
Philip
No problem, Philip. My only caveat is that since this is a CAVS thread, I don’t want to address a firewall usage question (even tho’ it relates to CAVS…) here. Please create a post for this question in the Firewall Help board, and PM me a link to it. I’ll be most happy to answer that there. I’d just PM you the answer, but maybe this way others will benefit from it as well.
LM
My problem seems to have sorted itself out.
When i first installed CAVS ,the connection to the internet was the about the second or third item to load when booting up.Which was a little annoying.
Now it loads last,which is what i do manually.
Thanks again.
Philip
I have installed it on W2003 server and it refuses to start onaccess scanner (CAV003). I’ve looked into the services list and could not find CAV running at all so perhaps the service wasn’t installed? All the other seems to work…
Hi aducom,
The CAVS services may not work on any other system except win 2k and XP. CAVS is a desktop product and it does support win2k and XP.
regards
Kishor
I had never used any Comodo AV product before and was investigating the firewall when I stumbled over the CAVS beta 2.0 yesterday and decided to give it a try. I was especially intrigued to find AV and AS and HIPS integrated into ONE product.
So following the reboot after install I gave “Allow” responses to all of the HIPS prompts and mostly let it do what it wanted. Today when I attempted a VPN connection to my work, it failed with:
Error 768: The connection attempt failed because of failure to encrypt data
I tried this for several previously established VPN connectoids, including one to a completely different server - all failed. I disabled the CAVS service and exited the CAVS tray icon - no change.
These are all Microsoft L2TP/IPSEC VPNs to either an ISA server or Windows 2003 server.
I uninstalled CAVS and rebooted - and all my VPN connections worked again.
Just to make sure, I re-installed CAVS, and after the reboot it’s broken again.
Let me know if I can provide any other information. My machine is XP SP2, it also runs Defender and Spybot. Spybot’s TeaTimer has approved all CAVS changes, Defender never said anything about it.
Version is working well for me. One issue with HIPS. I run Counter Spy and as part of its startup it uses a file called SBAPIFS.SYS, which I understand is a hidden file which is part of the self protection program for Counter Spy. CAV HIPS reports the file as located in C:/Windows\System32\Drivers\ and asks if I wish to allow or block. I choose “Allow” and “Send to Comodo” for analysis and “Remember”. I am asked every time the system starts however. This file does not show up in the “allowed” list and for whatever reason, CAV cannot “remember” it. If I search for the file, I cannot find it, but CAV detects the hidden file on startup. Any way to fix this so that hidden files that I allow are truly “remembered” so I don’t have to respond to the HIPS warning every startup? If I choose to “remember” the choice, should be enough. It’s not remembering. Otherwise, I’m having a good experience with this version. Thanks for your work.
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Just to say that I am back on board having uninstalled Spyware Guard and all seems to be running smoothly.
Thankyou,
James
Hello… i’ve just install cavs and it looks good…
however, i can’t connect to my localhost (http://localhost) anymore… i don’t know whether this is something related to HIPS or not… but seems that i can’t connect. This is so troublesome and i have to get over this as soon as possible because my deadline for the work is near.
I’m using Apache with MySql and PHP… do u think we need to add php (executables ?) to the HIPS as a safelist in HIPS? I’ve search the site and found similar problems but did not find the answer.
https://forums.comodo.com/index.php/topic,4740.msg35141.html#msg35141
I really hope this problem will be solved later… for now on, i guest my only choice is to uninstall cavs for a moment untill this problem is solved.
thank you~
Hi,
Have you tried to load http://127.0.0.1 instead? Are the simple SQL jobs running fine (try to create and drop)? If neither is working, maybe you should exlude apache’s directory.
Kishor,
I just downloaded a rather large file (nexuiz-223.zip) from sourceforge, in the process of helping a user in the CFP forum. File is 190+MB.
Just for grins, I scanned it with multiple applications. CAVS was actually the quickest, and the only one to note specifically that it was a compressed file. However, here’s the oddity…
CAVS reported 1 compressed file, 118 files.
BitDefender reported 3344 files
A-squared reported 3481 files
Obviously they’re all different in the way they scan, but that’s 3000+ difference in the file count. BD listed all the files it scanned, all the way to component level, apparently. A2 showed it in progress, and looked very similar. CAVS just said it was scanning.
LM
yes, i’ve tried everything… from 127.0.0.1 to my external IP… but it still not working… i’ve also check the mysql process as well as apache… the seems to be working fine… i try some command on mysql command line, also everything is fine…
As I said earlier, the only way for me now is to uninstall cavs for the moment. After restart, i can acesss localhost, 127.0.0.1 as well as my external IP… Really hope that the team here could explain about the problem…
thx~
Am i right if i say that scanning a zipped compressed file will add +1 (the compressed file itself?) to the file counter? I scanned an archive with 3 files within and CAVS showed 4 files at the result. I didn’t notice this earlier.
I also found a zip archive where CAVS says there’s nothing to scan (No item to scan). You can’t download files directly (it’ll give a 403), please go through here: http://comodo.freegamespalace.net/cavs/ It shouldn’t be an infected file but a beta game archive.
Wheel of Time Strategy Game? That sounds like a Robert Jordan thing… 
Well Arkangyal,
I had no problem scanning that zip w/CAVS. 15 Files.
BD showed 30 Files.
A2 (like CAVS) showed 15 Files.
And no, no malware detected.
LM
Hello
I have some issues and request with 2.0.11.43.
cavse.exe consumes 750mb of memory each.
there are two instances of cavse.exe so memory consumption is 1.5GB total!
I investigated cavse with ProcessExplorer and found it was handling large rar file.
(compressed iso file inside)
Does it scan inside rar files?
HIPS dialog freezes when a program is launched by certain launcher at the first time.
here is download link of the launcher which can reproduce this issue.
(unfortunately this is japanese software.)
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA018351/archives/cl251.exe
I don’t want to click messagebox after file submission every time.
Please use task tray notification instead.
thanks.
Vid.
Cavs scans inside of all compressed archives by default and on access. Also I can’t see why cavse is using so much ram, mine only uses 75mb per instance at most even on large files, are you sure you read that right. 75000 k is not 750 mb. 1mb = 1024 k.
Hi Cool Business,
You will be able to see the file if you try this
HIPS-Application control settings->General->Manage Allow block list->Show user marked safe files->Mark Safe… Now you can see the file and select it to mark as safe.
regards
Kishor
CAVS 2.0.11.43 still refuses to NOT quarantine the Real VNC executables or the LogMeIn dll (lminit.dll). I have added it to both exclusion lists and it still gets quarantined every time. Very frustrating.
Ewen 