Hello! I’m using COMODO Internet Security for a long time… well probably since it was released. Yesterday, I saw a new icon of comodo in tray which never appeared before (pic attached). System status says that Defence+ is not functioning properly. I must notice it is turned off, and it always was this way, because I don’t use it for a long time, but never had such a problem. A ran the diagnostics but it tells me in the end that everything’s OK though. What may cause this? Thanx.
Windows XP Professional SP2
Also I have to mention that this issue happens not after each time Windows starts. If I reboot PC, it gets alright. But next time the same story repeats.
I tried the above steps and it was fine for a while, then occured again this AM.
I uninstalled and reinstalled the latest version (3.13.121240.574). Working OK for now, but this is not the first time or version this has happened with.
Quit a few problems disappeared when my XP Home edition was upgraded from SP2 to SP3.
XP is fairly notorious for problems with the notification tray.
Even with SP3 I still had to reduce the start-up services.
Icons may fail to appear if they arrive a bit late on start-up.
In the good old days of Comodo 2.4 the icon had a colour which reminded you whether the firewall was active or disabled - that was the idea.
In practice Comodo might deliver it too late and it would not appear.
Alternatively it might launch it before it had finished initialising etc. and for a few seconds the icon might indicate “disabled” before it achieved “active” - and sometimes XP was too quick and closed the window for notification tray updates before Comodo achieved “active” so the rest of the day Comodo appeared disabled - until I right clicked the icon and refreshed its status.