Has anyone actually been able to remove this firewall from their vista home premium computer? I have tried all the “methods” of removal listed. I still have legacy registry keys, as I can’t change permissions even with an administrator account. I still have “mini ports” in the device manager. Even with that said does anyone actually know what it takes to get this thing off my computer so I can get back online? I am having to use a work computer just to get this far. (:AGY)
While Comodo may be a good firewall due to the need to have a trusted operational system I hope the makes of this program will immediately withdraw it from use as it is proven to be detrimental to the long term stability of a computer system.
ditto that. smacks of supreme arrogance to not have immediately addressed this, and i mean ASAP! even Prevx, which is in my opinion the most arrogant security software developer in all the land, will provide a removal tool to rid OS’es of their buggy, wobbly offering!
btw, anyone using these cutting edge security apps without FDISR & something like Shadowprotect is asking for brain damage. i am now running CFP3 (afterintially being very apprehensive to do so after noticing this thread) but i have a snapshot, and an image to cleanly remove CFP3. the downside of course, is, that after 6 months and i decide to no longer use CFP3 i will have to reinstall everything up to that point. but even that is preferable to what i am reading here.
maybe Comodo should provide a copy of FDISR and Shadowprotect to all CFP3 users until they see fit to design a comptent uninstaller themselves? sounds golden to me. :■■■■
This batch file even removed that pesky karspersky that didnt wanted to leave either
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Thanks a lot, tested in windows vista home premium, both enditall 2 and your batch did the trick… now to install the latest version of this nice firewall
Well, we are approaching nearly 6,000 views of a post that I penned back on Dec. 15 – barely six weeks ago.
At the time I prepared these instructions for removing CFP, I had no idea that so many users would experience such a degree of difficulty in uninstalling what is an otherwise ground-breaking product. With Ragwing’s assistance – and the posts of many others – I think we have created a substantial knowledge base that will aid in further development of CFP.
I want to thank everyone who has posted here and in the “Bug Reports” subforum. Patience willing, we will improve CFP and push the product to its full potential.
Heh, no, it doesn’t, but I think CFP’s developers and programmers are finally getting the “hint”.
As long as they are making a conscientious effort to assimilate users’ feedback into the product, I have confidence that CFP will emerge as a truly great hybrid system.
I’m not sure why you were unable to access the download link, either as a guest or as a logged-out member of the forum. I was able to download the latest version even after logging out and flushing my browser cache. Anyway, keep us posted on your progress.
I have had a problem un-installing CFP, I used the ‘remove programmes’ in the control panel as usual. (I was testing different firewalls for suitability) : Anyhow, the uninstall seemed ok but, I later found it wasn’t. After testing a couple more I decided that comodo was for me, and tried to re-install it. I kept getting a banner saying comodo already installed, do you wish to uninstall, I clicked yes, simply because I had no comodo icon on the desktop, and could find no files ANYWHERE!! The uninstall did not happen. I’m not a pc whizz but I tried all I know and I can’t shift it, basically I have cfp somewhere on my system but can’t find any file holding it, so I can uninstall and start over… HELP!!! :o
If only I had known the problems relating to unstallation and removal of registry keys I would never have installed version 3 in my XPpro/SP2/IE7 drive. Warnings shoul’d have been available even if program is free.
I just hope your code engineers will shortly provide a proper cleaner which does not leave Norton System Works to identify countless invalid registry keys. with the problem of applying permissions to each of them is so tedious and uneccessary. When, I ask?
The reason of wanting to uninstall is that everytime I want to install a program I have to disable the firewall and defense
You need to download the Norton SystemWorks removal tool. I believe Symantec updated it within the past couple of months.
Yes, Comodo Firewall Pro can be difficult to remove. But Norton SystemWorks is far, far worse, based on my past experience with it. I will never again install or use a Symantec product.
As far as I’m concerned, it is standard procedure to disable a firewall – any firewall – and your anti-virus application whenever installing a new program.
Like you, I hope we’ll see a standalone uninstaller that is officially released by Comodo in the not-too-distant future.
Having read all these posts I am reluctant to reinstall V.3 and I am thinking of reinstalling V 2.4 When I installed V.3 I was unable to open it whereas I had no problems with 2.4. If I go back to using V.2.4 surely I will still be well protected or should I give V.3 another try?
I am currently using Avast antivirus, Spyware Terminator, BO Clean, AD-Aware 2007 (free version) and Spyware Blaster.
Yes, you will have an excellent inbound and outbound protection. You might want to use another HIPS like System Safety Monitor, and give CFP 3 a try in the future!
Looks like a nice setup, tho Ad-Aware 2007 is pretty ■■■■ (in my opinion), so you could stay with the old Ad-Aware (I guess it uses the same database as 2007).
I am very new to this. I have run the uninstall but Comodo Firewall Pro still appears in my window security centre. I assume I need to run the Registry Cleaner file mentioned in the earlier posts. Except the link does not work. It says the file cannot be found.
Can someone please provide another link? I am using Vista and installed Vista 64 bits.
(:WAV) My not so comprehensive removal instructions (Just cause I install & uninstall alot) hehe. Download Zsoft Uninstaller - www dot Zsoft dot dk… choose “Analyze the installation”, then click “beofre installation”, then run the comodo exe… then since you’ll need to reboot, click cancel & close Zsoft… after reboot you’ll want to open zsoft and hit “after installtion”. Now later on when you decide to uninstall, you’ll want to run the comodo uninstaller first before uninstalling everything else through Zsofts “analyzed programs tab”. Should take care of everything left over including the registry changes. I Haven’t experienced any problems that I know of.
Just a thought on removing stuff - I’ve had problems removing various malware from different systems - because malware has evolved to protect itself from removal, if you can identify its components, i.e., the malware executables, and their disk locations, you can simply delete the malware files by one of the following methods (don’t use this method if you don’t understand it conceptually and be sure to backup your system before proceeding):
-remove the infected hard drive and install it in a clean machine, boot the clean machine from it’s hard drive - not the the infected hard drive , then just use window file explore to permanently delete the malware files from the infected hard drive. Reinstall the now cleaned hard drive back into its computer. Note: If the drive is NTFS formatted the clean machine’s operating system must support If NTFS partitions (Win 98 does not as far as I know)
-If the drive is FAT32 formatted, a second computer is not need just boot from a dos boot disk and used the command line delete command to to permanently delete the malware files from the infected hard drive.
-If the drive is NTFS formatted, and you have the NTFSDOS utility (see sysinternals web site or google NTFSDOS) - it can be used with a dos boot disk to delete the malware files from the infected hard drive.
-After deleting the malware files from the infected hard drive boot up normally from that drive. Since the malware’s executables are no longer on the disk they don’t get executed even though their windows registry entries are still present.
-The last remaining task is to identify what registry entries are associated with malware and remove them using regedit.
-With regard to uninstalling the Comodo Firewall , the above method can be used to ensure it never starts up and therefore can’t prevent itself from being removed.
Found two new and pretty useless entries, but will add them anyways (:NRD)
REG DELETE “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder\Start Menu2\Programs\COMODO\Firewall” /F
REG DELETE “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Management\ARPCache\COMODO Firewall Pro” /F
