I’ve only started using CPF in the last few days, so this is my first update.
I was impressed that the system detected the update, offered to download and install it, and then advised me that I should re-boot. Quite painless.
I wasn’t so impressed that all my connections started to die as soon as I said that I would re-boot later, and pings to a couple of sites all came back “hostname unrecognised”. It seemed as though CPF was blocking ALL connections until the PC was re-booted.
I can understand why, but is this normal behaviour for an update?
Apart from that small niggle, Comodo seem to be offering decent products at a (very) decent price, and I will probably expand my use of them over time.
For some updates(including this one), this is the expected behavior. When some firewall services are stopped, all connections are blocked for convenience.
Hey Guys
CPF is just brilliant now that it has the improvements. Works very well on my machine and I would put it up against any other FW on the market. I emailed Firewall Tester about a month ago and told them to take a serious look at a very serious FW (Comodo). I downloaded all of the various tests and on my machine it passed just about every one. It will be one hell of a FW when it can pass all the tests with flying colours.
shadha:) (WCF3)
AFAIK it DOES pass them all and its the only one that does. One of the tests requires that you have a browser open at the time of the test, but this isn’t made clear. This FW is simply the best - bar none - and its going to get better.