Itâs a reasonably balanced review, but you have to wonder how he knows that there will be no better product released in the remaining 9 months of 2008. Possibly he meant 2007?
As it stands, his criticism of CFP being too hard for Mr. and Mrs. Average is more right than wrong, but the introduction of things like ThreatCast and the âare we there yet?â centralised management console may tips things in favour of CFP.
Only time will tell.
Regardless, they are both bloody good firewalls. Which is best comes down to personal preference and circumstances.
[b]"Meanwhile, even though Comodo 2.4 was something of a cult favorite, itâs absolutely true that a wide range of people experienced significant trouble with that firewall too. So for a period of time, Comodo users were stuck between a rock and a hard place. Many of them tried version 3 and returned to version 2.4. Others wrote me that they left for other firewalls."
âWhat that tells me is that Comodo 3 is a good firewall product, potentially a great one, that quite possibly was shipped to end users without adequate QA testing. As is always the case with free, publicly available software, some early adopters were ill-equipped to handle the problems they encountered. Most of those issues appear to have been fixed now. Comodo 3 was also an ambitious release, and bugs happen. But this kind of management of a development process does not inspire confidence â especially when itâs the type of product that can wreak havoc on your computer.â
âIf the Comodo team can focus on software quality, and if it can add additional functionality that pares back on pop-ups, future updates of Comodo 3 could improve the overall usability of the firewall markedly. Solid protection plus good usability is a winning combination. For now, Comodo 3 misses on the usability front â the main reason it has come in second in this review.â[/b]
LOL,
For months I have been making posts highlighting the fact that it was a bad business practice for Comodo to completely ignore requests to wrap-up the loose ends in the CFP v2.4 line, and now, here it is, the chickens have come home to roost.
CFP is the better firewall, but Comodo only has itself to blame for this outcome.
Instead of working on usability, Comodo got ahead of itself and started adding âfeaturesâ, such as AV-Smart warranty.
After AV-Smart, one would think that they would go back to usability⌠but noâŚ
New feature, Threatcast!
Comodoâs biggest enemy is, unfortunately, Comodo.
(:SAD)
[Edit #1 Reason: Added other relevant quotes from review]
After installing CFP3 then getting locked out of almost everything, I tried OA. It is much easier to use (useability is v. important for any software) and I can see that it would be preferred by Joe Public.
However, OA became unstable - in fact started to do a mini-version of CFP3 - so I went back to CFP2.4.
Just changed to v.320 and itâs v. good, but for a neighbourâs PC I put ZA on. Nowhere near the protection but itâs better to have some defence than total defence that the users will unwittingly bork in a day or so.
CFP doesnât help by having pop-ups covering pop-ups, starting the GUI too small and needing clicks before scrolling (I havenât yet seen if the window scrolled jumps back to the top after a deletion rather than staying in place. This is another source of error due losing the place, at least for novices).
Having tried OA, use CFP2.4, set up ZA on several PCs, Iâm now in a corner: CFP3 is the only one that I want to use and Iâd like to put it on other machines, so if it ever gets a âgrannyâ mode (in more than 1 language, Melih) thatâs the way Iâll go.
On behalf of the Comodo code monkeys - thanks. Consumers are certainly spoilt for choice when looking for great firewalls. Both CFP (V3 and V2.4) and OA (free and paid) are brilliant firewalls. Each have quirks and foibles, but both are great at their core functions.
If only the rest of the software world had the luxury of multiple best-of-breed samples within each category.
but but but - I like to see whatâs going on! All it needs is for one of the boxen to be up a bit. At least the dialogue box, if dragged up a bit, will stay in that position for the session
at the end of the day everyone is entitled to their opionion hence i will not question what Scot chooses, thats his opionion.
However, what I find strange is the very issue Scot raised which was 2.4 like functionality in v3 where you simply dont get any noticable popup (less so than 2.4 even). I didnt see any mention of it and I asked him why also. If you guys remember our heated discussion with Scot was about him and his users requesting this firewall with leak protection capability⌠and we did provide it but he doesn`t even consider that mode in his review!! That mode is leak proof and almost no popup which is great for his user base and its free.
CFP 3 vs. OA is like the same thing as XP vs. Vista. Everythingâs based on opinions rather than facts. Iâd say CFP 3 is Vista, while OA is XP.
Vista is safer than XP, but why people still stick with XP? Because XPâve been around for many years, and people are used to it. I guess it was the same thing when XP was released. People thought âwhat a piece of junk, Iâll stick to old trustworthy Windows 98â or something. So if we write âCFP 3 is safer than OA, buy why people still stick with OA?â instead, weâll get a similiar answer. OA is more user-friendly than CFP 3. CFP 3 is more secure than OA. The average computer user want a firewall thatâs easy to use, not one thatâs powerful and offers lots of ways to increase the protection.
are you pcgamergod? if yes, thereâs a reason why they removed your post: on OAâs forum admins donât want A vs. B discussions.
Here thereâs some people that say bad things about OA, Comodo and other firewalls (like âOA is full of issues, nobody should use itâ ecc ecc), there itâs forbidden to say, for example âComodo is full of issues, nobody should use itâ. And as you can see, nobody says that OA is the best firewall and that the other firewalls suck, there.
Itâs also written in the forum rules
Anyway, I think that OA and Comodo are both very good firewallsâŚ
ps: and about leak-tests⌠now OAâs product score is 100%
Scots newsletter is an A vs B discussion ( or opinion ) too
Last year november, when I came to the conclusion that CFP 3 was not ready for me, I did a test with Online Armor but that was not satisfying either. I recently started to test CFP 3 again and now I am happy with it. But I agree it is a matter of personal opinion
No whats odd here. Mike Nash is so quick ti fix his Matousec results but not too qucik to fix real problems like people complaining about explorer.exe issues. That has been a complaint for months now including my buddy. I sent Melih a PM about the huge lag in pings with version 318 and 48 hours later out came version 320. Thats what I call customer service.
Possibly he meant 2007?