Full Removal of Comodo Firewall Pro 3 with SafeSurf Toolbar (If Regular Uninstall Method Fails)

Help for v3
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I can’t give out the Moderator’s secret information, so I’ll give you an encrypted Yoda message.

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/8149/yodaftwdz9.png

Cheers,
Ragwing

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In addition to developing marketing and public relations strategies, I write professionally for a living.

So I’m happy to perform a bit of pro bono work for several forums. But I leave moderating up to the professionals with pointy ears and skin badly in need of a South Texas tan (just kidding, just kidding). I have neither qualification.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, nevertheless. And a tip of my hat to the moderators, all of whom do a great job here.

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well i was not pointing at the process as being absurd as much as the idea that the developers were so confident in their offering, they completely overlooked the fact that some may actually want to rid themselves of it. now that is absurd! (:KWL)

in any case, i have no axe to grind with Comodo. i have been following the development of this app with interest since the first alpha appeared. i am in no hurry though, so i will probably hold off until 2-3 qtr of 08 before taking a spin in it.

Best Wishes & Merry Christmas.

Mike

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Thanks for the amplification, Mike.

I dare say that a love/hate relationship exists with Comodo among many of these users here. If the opposite were true – that is, the program installed flawlessly, yet provided mediocre protection – then we’d be hearing howls of complaints about its efficacy as a firewall/HIPS. Fortunately, that’s not the case for the most part, though I am not downplaying the frustration experienced by those who have nothing but problems with installing and uninstalling CFP.

Certainly, the installer issue is fixable, and I truly hope the majority of the other bugs will be ironed out well before the end of the first quarter of 2008. Who wants to wait that long? I sure don’t, and neither should you have to.

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Weird. The uninstaller worked excellent for me. Only left over sigsdb.db. This includes device manger, app data etc…

I had defence+ in training mode. It seems the installer works fine but comodo can’t delete its own files in use because defence+ can’t be closed.

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Thanks for this. The only thing that threw me briefly was that I have no ControlSet002 in my Registry, only 001 and 003. Looking forward to installing the new Comodo and seeing if it will play nice with my updated Kaspersky (I just moved from 6 to 7).

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Ah, the ControlSetxxx is the Last Known Configuration that Windows can use if the booting fail. Therefore, you might or might not have all of them.

Cheers,
Ragwing

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The enumerator for the ControlSet### group of registry keys will vary between systems. Most only have two such groups, plus the CurrentControlSet group. I just noticed in another thread that you have CFP and KAV working together. That’s great!

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Yep, smooth as silk. Thanks again!

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TMontana,

I’m going to guess that the difficulty with your *sql db’s will relate to a security setting in CFP; either the Firewall/Advanced/Firewall Behavior Settings or Defense +/Advanced/Defense + Settings. I have utilized an mssql db w/o any issues whatsoever, using just the FW side of v3. I have not tried this using D+ as well. With just the FW side, I had to allow the service to connect one time and that was it (with “Remember” of course). My guess is it’s probably related to a D+ setting; if you reinstall and try again, I’d watch how that side of it is configured, pretty closely.

LM

PS: To all who might wonder about whether or not a question will be answered in conjunction with major international holidays, it’s probably less likely than normal. Reason being, the Moderators here are volunteer; we’re not employees of Comodo, so our time sometimes just belongs to us… That’s not to say we aren’t willing to help, or don’t want to, we just may have other priorities in life. We do try, as a whole, to address questions within 24 hours of them being posted.

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Found the following registry keys and updates the batch file:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Local AppWizard-Generated Applications\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Local AppWizard-Generated Applications\CFP_Setup_3.0.14.276_XP_Vista_x32

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Local AppWizard-Generated Applications\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Local AppWizard-Generated Applications\CFP_Setup_3.0.14.276_XP_Vista_x64

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Local AppWizard-Generated Applications\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Local AppWizard-Generated Applications\CFPLog

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Local AppWizard-Generated Applications\CPFFileSubmission

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Software\Comodo\Firewall Pro

Cheers,
Ragwing

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I’m sorry but I can’t seem to find the bat file, CFP3 File+Registry Cleaner.bat that you say is attached. Am I missing something? Please advise.

Thanks

Bopro54

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At the bottom of the post it says CFP3 File+Registry Cleaner.rar. Click it to download.
Will also work if you click the text in this post.

Cheers,
Ragwing

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[ at ]USSS and Ragwing

Thanks for the great .BAT file. The only thing I had a problem with is needing quotes around any paths and keys with spaces in them. E.g.,:

CD "%homepath%\someotherdir\andanotherone"        (%homepath% probably has spaces in it)
RD "this subdir has spaces"
REG DELETE "HKLM\This Key Has Spaces" /F

I also added:
NET START WINMGMT
after deleteing the subdir.

-SW

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Yes it has spaces, since %homepath% is \Documents and Settings\Username.

RD "this subdir has spaces"
REG DELETE "HKLM\This Key Has Spaces" /F

Yeah, I’ll add that. Seems like I forgot it. And I’ll also use quotation marks for the paths so that no one will get problems with that in the future.

Cheers,
Ragwing

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Hmmm

Great product but caused me some frustration today…

I didn’t want to de-install it, I wanted to install it.

After using it successfuly on a laptop I wanted it on my desktop. The notebook was a very simple setup; one hard drive, English XP Pro.
But the PC was more difficult - Lots of drives (Network, chip based and the spinning kind), and using XP SP2 Home in German.

I kept getting the same thing as I think is the “Installation Directory bug”. https://forums.comodo.com/bug_reports/installation_fails_no_config_screen_v3012268_x32bugreport-t15141.0.html;msg105334#msg105334 describes my problem exactly.

I fixed it by copying everything I could find in the working notebooks registry, editing those entries for the new installation (the Program FIles directory was different), and adding those exported reg files to the new install registry.

I did have to temporarly change the registry permissions for a few of the entries. and there were about 21 total different keys.

But it works now.

Thought you’d like to know.

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Welcome to the forums, Como-newb. Glad the removal instructions helped you get it installed! That’s a fun role reversal… :smiley:

LM

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I can confirm the latest release 3.0.15 cleans even better. It even deleted its own folder with defence+ on. What needs to be implemented is a kill alert warning similar to ZA so when you install or update you are warned the cpf process is being killed which results in a clean/easy uninstall. Because defence+ asks about the cpf uninstall which could mess it up if you accidentally press deny.

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I recieve the message: “You are not allowed to access this section” Why?

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I have no idea why this happened, but I’ve updated the link to a new one now.

Cheers,
Ragwing