I'm giving comodo a chance again

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So a few years ago I totally stopped using all comodo/xcitium products because they kept causing bluescreens on my machines. Instead I used VoodooCyberlock and DefenderUI. But then more recently I heard about the microsoft GDID. I did some searching and found out that the GDID gets sent along with all the data MSDefender sends to microsoft

So since MSDefender sucks and almost always gets disabled by malware in real world malware infections anyway, I tried bitdefender free edition, but that ate a ton of my ram even when my systems were barely doing anything. Then I thought back to that test JITech did on youtube back in 2023 where he turned the cloud lookup off

See here’s the thing, comodo will allow a lot of PUPs and sometimes straight up malware if the cloud lookup is turned on, the antivirus will also become very lazy if the cloud lookup is on.

So I decided to try comodo again and so far it’s working okay. I downloaded the full database and every time I start doing my daily activities I do a lookup of all the vendor names listed as “trusted” just in case any on the list are labeled as “unrecognized” now, which many of them turn out to be and then I just let that run until I shut down at the end of my evenings

What I ask of the devs is just one thing that they should already be doing anyway…Hire some Q/A testers and penetration testers. I deferred my windows updates by as long as the group policy lets me, so please xcitium devs, make sure comodo won’t break anything when new updates for windows come out.

and be more attentive to people here on this forum or when people email you about issues they’re having, be sure to take any reports of whitelisted malware very seriously

also, one of the things I don’t like about the paid version of comodo is that I can’t use just comodo firewall, it makes me use the antivirus always. Right now I’m currently using comodo IS with the full database and no cloud, so hopefully that will help with detection like it used to. Oh that’s another thing the devs need to work on. Detection.

Comodo will protect your system very well…as long as the cloud is turned off, but even though the AV will detect way more stuff with the cloud turned off, it’s still not as good at detecting as avast/avg or bitdefender…actually now that avast/avg is owned by norton, it probably doesn’t do as well anymore

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I’m torn again after the update. In a statement (after testing and evaluating the new version, the conclusion in response to a user’s inquiry was cynical: “My computer survived. It’s still alive”), on the Malwaretips forum, it’s time for comodo users to consider switching (for security reasons). There, the only result of the update after such a long time is a name change.

While Andy Ful, in particular, sees things differently. Yes, comodo doesn’t make it easy, at least not for me as a relative novice who still relies on my experience with comodo. But times change, and especially dangerous methods become more sophisticated.

A rather sober and neutral example (Page 1 #16 by Divine_Barakah):

Comodo was heavily promoted by some members here and they shared their config. I bet 99% of users who followed the hype knew nothing about the config nor how it worked. Comodo gave them a false sense of security and control.

The product is no longer actively maintained and this is catastrophic for a security solution. Other vendors are much more active, yet every once in a while we see headlines about discovered vulnerabilities. I just wonder how things are for Comodo.

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I’m staying with Comodo (for security reasons).