(:NRD)Flame, lame, overreaction on both sides, or neither side depending on your (read: my) viewpoint, but whatever… I can see that some people have nothing to do but troll around the forums all day (no disrespect to those who need to be, or are paid to be here), but others of us work for a living. Being a net admin myself, If something major happened, I may not have come back “within 24hours” so lock your threads or take whatever extreme action YOU need to in order to make yourselves feel secured against the threat of someone who might not communicate in a so-called “normal” way after spending eight hours on the phone with a tech support rep in India.
If poor Mike was “flaming” me, I must’ve seemed like a suicide bomber, so I emphatically apologize for yelling in the forum, and I take no offense-we’re all human, and very few are truly compassionate- but I was PO’d about this program calling home every few minutes… It was utilizing my dialup adapter and effectively P’ing me Off!
As I tried to spell out earlier… I was so frustrated that I tried everything short of uninstalling the programs trying to get the software to stop trying to call home. How did I know it was calling home? I looked through the help pages and went in and set the firewall to maximum verbosity, but every time my computer re-dialed the internet, comodo firewall warned me “comodo launchpad is trying to access the internet”…very clearly (and supposedly trustworthy;) Alas, my dialup adapter was still dialing the internet even though I had gone into the component monitor and blocked EVERY comodo component.
Sadly, in MY ignorance, during installation I had used the advanced settings; hating memory hogging components, I turned off the launchpad, so I could not see the “option” link in the launch pad taskbar pop-up menu which in my mind, being a newbie, was a non-existant (doh!) funtion.
Considering the fact that Comodo is a “freeware beta”, it should be no wonder that you have people coming in posting thrice, and never returning… If I were ten years younger, I probably would have uninstalled and moved along to the next product in my impetuousness…having left what the weak of heart would label as “flames from hell”! Good thing I’m older, and not so labile.
Peace!
If my subject was too extreme, feel free to delete, or rename, or whatever: you’re the moderators, but in order to stop this from ever happening again, maybe, if when you have multiple components installed, is it possible to incorporate some component awareness algorithms, or a standardized help path so that when you open the “help” in firewall, you get to view the launchpad and AVG help if they are installed also? Or maybe just an addendum in the “troubleshooting” section of the firewall, pointing users to the launchpad component help if this type of error occurs.
Also: I may or may not be back within 24 hours… (:AGL)
