As you know we did a release today that we believe will address the leak test issues reported in Matousec.
I would like to re-iterate and be frank that this is the FIRST time we have done something in our firewall development that we donāt believe will provide material security benefit to end users today. If passing those two tests were important we would have done it ages ago! The issue was NOT about getting 100% on some tests, it was about āSecuring our end usersā!
However, the funfair that ensued the method in which Matousec has handled things, left us no choice but to āshowā what we are capable of āas we have been last few yearsā.
We asked Matousec to re-test and, as per their rule, will pay accordingly. But rest assured this is the āLASTā time we will pay unless Matousec changes the way he publishes results willy nilly which causes his credibility to be questioned. We expect a more credible, scheduled testing to be done, which we believe will create a better atmosphere and will benefit end users without creating a bidding war for ā$ for top spotā and without distrupting development processes which at the end of the day will affect end users!
Now I feel ādirtyā and somewhat ācheapā that I have resulted to this, but I feel it had to be done to set the record straight as this matousec funfair caused much confusion to our users!
On a positive note I have been exchanging emails with David (the chap behind Matousec) and happy to report that he understands my issues, meant no harm and I am sure he will learn from this experience and improve his service.
I do believe David is honest and credible and will do the right thing and improve his services.
The only saving grace to your post is the fact you said āI thinkā. If you want to acuse someone, please do it on a forum not associated with any party involved, in any way, with your accusation.
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Hi Panic,
As I said, you are doing a great job here and this is but another example. However, Melih slandered Scot Finnie in the same way (and several times at that) a little while ago and you (and the other global mods) didnāt say a thing.
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Thanks to my fighting now end users are armed with better information as Scot has corrected his articles in many places!
Horrifed, maybe for once, you can be of use and go count in how many places Scot has corrected his article and list them all here so that we know the end benefit!
But then again, i donāt think you will do that, cos you dontā care about anyone else but yourself and your own ego, right MPS (My Personal Stalker)
So i donāt think anyone should respond to you anymore unless you can do what i asked you to do: count how many corrections and list them all here as you simply have no purpose!
We are grateful that you are part of our forums and genuienly willing to contribute something towards end users (no matter what products they use). However I would urge you to be more restrained in your wording, especially you are part of the very testing group that makes up testmypcsecurity site and YOU HAVENT BEEN PAID by comodo! Testmypcsecurity is a site run by volunteers who test the software themselves and these people do not get paid by Comodo and (I hope by no other vendor either ). Comodo pays for the domain name and for hosting, thats it.
Misinformation is a bad thing and wonāt help anyone, responding to misinformation by even more misinformation is not going to help either. Hence I would kindly urge restrain to all involved parties.
I completely agree with you
But saying that OA paid Scot is misinformation too, I thinkā¦
Anyway, I donāt know why Iām wasting time in these threads⦠This (it isnāt a real discussion, after all) wonāt change our life⦠It makes it worse, maybeā¦
If you read my post: I did make the statement saying responding to misinformation by misinformation.
yes, lets move on with more constructive discussion like why Scot hasnāt done a review of CPF with Firewall+Leak protection mode? Afterall that was the mode that led him to create a blog that caused that response from us.
Scot, donāt you think you should re-test? Your advice to your users was based on a version that had a MAJOR bug that could have affected both usability and security of the product! Donāt you think your users deserve that?
Comodo doesnāt have bugs⦠nono
Windows doesnāt have bugs⦠nono
Linux doesnāt have bugs⦠nono
Apple doesnāt have bugs⦠nono
Zone Alarm doesnāt have bugs⦠nono
ProSecurity doesnāt have bugs⦠nono
Norton doesnāt have bugs⦠nono
Kaspersky doesnāt have bugs⦠nono
Browsers donāt have bugs⦠nono
The bugs which harm your computer are the other serious problem, especially for a non tech 70 year old which I am.
I came to Comodo after being a Zone Alarm user. That one gave BSODs whenever it updated itself, on two different computers. I had a lot of trouble finding a restore point which worked, so was in big trouble.
OK so I found CPF 2 after trying others which also caused problems.
I really loved that firewall, so when the betas of CPF3 appeared I had faith in Comodo and have used all of them from the first. (I chickened out of the alpha)
At no time have any of the betas caused a problem I couldnāt sort out for myself, as a forum member, so for me I would not consider anything else.
I think the issue is not whether they have bugs or not but the implications of these bugs. If as a security product a bug stops your security than this is a very serious issue.