I apologize if this seems like a rant. But, frankly, it is. No profanity, though; at least I have that much restraint (at the moment). This is not a request for support, nor is it intended to be a conversation piece.
Ever since I started using Comodo Internet Security (even being stupid enough to pay for a license key), HIPS has been and continues to be a raging dumpster fire, and I am tired of spending my life trying to work with or around it. It perpetually ignores rules, no matter how narrow or broad the defined instructions. It constantly freezes all three of my Windows computers whenever it asks permission to allow any software to do anything. Several versions of the software, several clean OS installs, several years, and it doesn’t care.
“Would you like to let this program access Unity Crash Handler? Yes? Well too bad, I’m going to freeze your entire system so you have to force a power cycle. Have fun re-launching the software you had running network tasks in the background.”
“Oh, you have several defined rules to ignore this executable and its parent directory, and even it’s parent drive, as well as any process it might try to launch? Too bad, here’s a system freeze for you.”
“Yeah, I don’t care that you have explicit rules in place. Here’s a containment quarantine that I won’t let you bypass no matter how you try. You lose.”
“Oh, by the way, I’m going to keep deciding that WINDOWS BLOODY EXPLORER is a threat and perpetually block it. No, seriously. That’s what I’m going to do. Deal with it.”
And so on, and so forth. I have dealt with these stupid issues for a few years now, hoping that some arcane rule configuration or software update would help it to stop screwing me over several times a day. Hasn’t happened yet, so while the idea of HIPS is good, and I’d like it to work, it never will, so I’m killing it. Game over.
That’s all, rant over.