Altough i use v3 and not v4, i of course agree with your inferred choice (2) (but you shall note that a lot of people go for (3)), but not with the “methodology”.
Of course, you are not deliberately a liar, but you are “lying” both by overstatement and omission.
Let’s first say that i am opposed to whatever forum polling: to have whatever signification, it would have to involve not only this forum english readers and not even all language ones, but a large enough proportion of all of Comodo’s users; if not, it is not a poll, but only lobbying, but that is another question.
Speaking of this particular poll, and being said that Comodo deliberately made as default the contested behavior (as it is with, e.g., Windows default firewall), in order for a poll to be valid, it must factually present each choice without any personnal judgement, not ask more then one question at a time, and not make in the same time the questions and the answers.
As an off-topic illustration, De Gaulle made a poll long years ago asking people if they wanted him to make the reform X…: the said reform was actually quite good, but the french people were tired of De Gaulle, and they said no.
No one can actually vote for (1) when reading you, and you hence are making not a poll but, like before, a plebiscit.
Nevertheless, the reason for which Comodo enforced this very strange behavior is because a lot of people want it: they want to use a firewall, but never for it to warn them, and to automatically allow whatever site is said to be secure (Microsoft? Hum…) or, worse, they assume to be secure (call it emule or whatever on-line game, this forum is largely documented about such “issues”).
These same people, and Comodo with them, assume that, for an outbound connexion to be initiated by malwares, you first have to have this trojan or whatever installed to your computer, and that of course firewall/defense+ is supposed to keep you from such situations.
I, myself, do not abide by a single word of this theory, but it does not keep to expose its consequences with their pro and con in a factual way, allowing what i think to be short-minded security people to do whatever they want with their p2p and games, and voting for choice (1) at their own risk.
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