Hi boys
This has already been mentioned/discussed in other topics and the wishlist
All what Kev said about it was this :
To be honest? Iâm the author, and even I donât know yet ⌠itâs not going to happen until somewhere down towards the end of the year - after losing the old âwhy are we writing code for so many versions of windows?â code, we can concentrate on âsmaller, faster, betterâ for XP and Vista and release a âfinalâ 4.xx version for the OLD stuff which we will continue to maintain updates for, as long as that remains possible. Thatâs the PLAN, not the law. (grin)
Hereâs some of what we have in mind though since Iâm going to be working with a bunch of our analysts and internal coders now that weâre turning to what will be the first COMODO build of BOClean ⌠but nothing is set in stone as yet OTHER THAN ensuring that what everyoneâs expected of BOClean for the past ten years remains true:
At THIS point in time, the major interest is âinternationalisationâ of the GUI, and losing the memory-intensive support of OSâs no longer used, as well as the old legacy âNT stuffâ which depended on the older PSAPI libraries. By concentrating ONLY on XP and Vista, we can then use the latest WMI monitoring, and just about everything moves to the kernel driver except for the screens. Beyond that, as far as anyone can tell, BOClean will be smaller, faster and not much different.
Thereâs NO plans to build a âscannerâ ⌠thatâs what the AV is for, and weâll be going to a much more compact database and a few other internal features ⌠my guys have wanted us to be able to do a bunch of things differently, but we havenât decided on any of those technical details as yet âŚ
But as far as most folks are concerned, itâll be (as far as anyone can tell) the same old BOClean, and weâll look at some of the âwish-listâ items so long as they donât bog anything down or do unnecessary things. I sâpose the biggest difference is that it MIGHT be called âCOMODO AntiMalwareâ with only a passing reference to BOClean, but even THAT isnât set in stone yet ⌠now that 4.27 is considered solid, I can now turn to the âfinalâ which will probably be 4.30 or something ending in a zero for a change, and then once I take a vacation at the end of the month, get onto working out the details of a 5 version ⌠any guessing at this point though is premature, Iâm in my âlisteningâ stage right now with emphasis on what our Analysts see as coming needs, mechanisms to provide better updates, language support, and a prettier GUI perhaps once we can use the ânew windows featuresâ that XP and later brought along ⌠we were TRAPPED in the 4.xx design in not being able to do anything that Win95 or Win 3.11 couldnât handle âŚ
For the moment though, OFFICIALLY? I dunno either! =)
That is also the information he shared with me, I donât know anything more ( yet ). What I also mentioned earlier is that Kev is not only involved with BOClean, but with CIS and the âRemote Virus Removal by Comodo Expertsâ project as well. And if I understood Kev right, the last one has some priority now
Greetz, Red.
