It will be free. (unless something drastic happens…)
Melih
thank you for your time and answers.
Hi!
I’ve got an idea that I’ve been working on for a while now: a secure e-mail replacement.
Secure, by getting rid of ye good olde smtp protocol and bring the e-mail platform straight in the 21st century.
Secure also, by the use of cryptography, secure protocols and …certificates.
Secure also, by making it eaves-drop proof (unless the governments already have a backdoor for modern encryption algorythms).
And secure, because it’s spoof-proof.
Furthermore, this solution would get rid of one of the big evils of the digital age: spam. And a surefire way to get rid of it as well, by making e-mail by-invite-only.
I believe this could create quite some opportunities for Comodo, apart from the certificates.
Kind regards,
Geri
An interesting concept there,kind of like hushmail on steroids! :■■■■
hi Geri
interesting…
have u seen our secure email product?
thanks
melih
Hi Melih,
Yes, I have seen it and it’s a big step up from regular mail. But, as far as I was able to tell, it’s still based on the SMTP protocol, and therefore, it’s inherent flaws. You can see that the person who send you a mail has a certificate, but you’d still get mail from other non-certified sources, meaning you can still receive spam.
My solution would ban spam, spoofing (and a large portion of malware) from ever reaching you. And it would not only be at the enterprise level.
At this moment, due to the leaks in SMTP, corporations and end-users both, invest huge amounts of money in things like spam filters. For corporations it’s even worse. Spam already accounts for more than 90% of the email traffic at most companies, not to mention end-users. Even the ISP need to do huge investments to be able to handle the flood of spam.
And why? Because SMTP (still waiting for its successor) has inherent flaws.
Furthermore, people have the notion that e-mail is guaranteed delivery. In the current setup, there is no way to make that happen. I believe that can be solved as well, by using a P2P-like exchange between the mail servers. Encryption can assure that between the servers, there can be no eaves-dropping.
And since people can’t even send unsollicited mail (because the server should check whether the addressee wants to receive mail from the sender on forehand), spam won’t even be send.
That’s the big difference: all current email solutions and protection methods are based on (in your terminology) detection, while the method I describe is based on prevention.
Kind regards,
Geri
The issue you have identified is a huge issue, however is it because SMTP has flaws is it because its poorly implemented?
If everyon had a digital certificate and only accepted communication was a digitally signed one, then spam problem would be unnoticable. Hence, I believe its not the protocol but the way it is used is the issue here. But i am open to ideas…
thanks
melih
Hi Melin,
I beg to disagree. Spam in your solution still gets transmitted to the receiving server, not to mention all the servers routing the traffic on the way. It may be unnoticable by the receiver, but all links in between get to deal with it.
The new solution prevents the spam leaving even the machine of the sender. It’s a big paradigm shift from what can be achieved with SMTP. Because SMTP just allows people to send mail without even a sender. And as long as badly configured SMTP servers exist, the problem will remain and will be exploited.
Kind regards,
Geri
But if all end users had the ability to only accept signed messages, then there would be no point in sending spam? So all that spammers wouldn’t spend their time sending spam knowing it aint getting nowhere…Once financial incentive of Spam reaching the users has been eliminated then spammers won’t have the desire to send spam.
thanks
Melih
Hi great people !
I love comodo firewall (L) because its free (:HUG)
great topic in this forum ‘which product to develop next’ ?? (:CLP)
I love to see comodo to develop the software to block unnecessary websites (:KWL) . so that we’ll keep our children to brwse some usefull websites. (:WIN)
Hope we’ll get it soon :THNK
once again… cheers to you people :■■■■
content filtering?
parental control?
thanks
Melih
I’d like to see something similar to peerguardian built into CFP to block known malware/dodgy content sites, this would fit in neatly with your “prevention is better than cure” idealogy. :■■■■
What about “Jack of all trades, master of none”?
I think CFP has to draw a line somewhere andyman35. Just my opinion though.
i have a question…comodo firewall pro will be available in future for xp sp2? or only for vista?
I want that you guys develop a system optimize program so that the computer is secure but is also getting the proper care and attention and that is good for the business on the internet. A program that can monitor the state of security and optimization of other computers in your network environment would be verry nice if you guys could develop that. Also develop webshield protection that is an extralayer before something gets from the webbrowser on the pc and do something with virtualization, that would be even cooler!!
okey, have a nice day
(V)| :THNK
thanks for that triple…
can you pls expand on what you mean by system optimiser pls…
thanks
Melih
Yes you are right I must explain myself better,
There a lot of people who are experiencing trouble with removing traces of programs, the registry is a real comprehensive part of the operating system, and everybody needs to be carefull changing it state. Not everybody is handy with the registry (including me) so a program from the makers of the program wich causing registrychanges that could delete all those nasty registry entries would be a verry good initiative. Beside the registry there are other important parts that need to be taken care of. You could think of the harddisk, so good defragmentation of the disks and protection of writing/rewriting errors. A utility that can warn when the harddisk gets too full and clumpsy is a good feature.Think of optimization of the ram memory. Everyone knows how bad Win98 dealed with the ram memory, it was a devestating abuse. A good utility that can defrag the memory in realtime would be a grate feature.
Besides care and control of the ram, registry, harddisk. I know how incredibbely difficult it is too make a program that knows how to deal with thousands, maybe hundredofthousands of diffirent factors. But i am absolutely convinced that you should do something with parralelling programming, this due too the rise of manycore processors. There are not many programs who are designed too get the max out of the cores and multithreading technology. I know how incredibbly difficult this is at the moment, this type of programming is still in its childhood but if you guys would succeed in making these type of programs, I know it would give a revolutionary boost at the performance of your programs next too the great performance you guys today giving in your programs.
Back to the optimization initiative, I find it logical to believe that a program that is ment to protect vital system areas must also take care of it and make sure it is running as it should be. I strongly believe that security and optimization go hand in hand with eachother. There a lot of programs who are combining these things I am glad too see this happen because these used to be to different worlds.
As for the comodo team I know you guys got famous because you make products that are looking forward in too the future comparable with securityvendors and I am finding that fascinating for a company that isn’t a real securityvendor. I know you will come with a procuct that will be the badguys one step ahead and that will keep other securityvendors one step behind. That is how I know you guys and that is how I want to remember you guys.
Thank you.
Thanks…
clean up the important stuff so that there is no deficiency…hmm…(like registry cleaner etc)…
plus identify how else we can improve optimisation…
worth checking…
thanks
Melih
good suggestion! Looking in my registry now, i see a lot of old stuff that i havent used in years. I got traces of star trek voyager elite force for crying out loud!
I think an obvious one is you should add routing functions to Comodo
Look at all the people having trouble with ICS.
Sure routers are cheap, but … well they are cheap. It’s nearly impossible to accurately monitor your traffic when you have some low budget SOHO router.
Plus, there are few good offerings out there and none that come to mind with as much firewall power.
Seems like a perfect combination to me… all your filtering/routing in one app.
However, you in my opinion you should probably just update Comdo faster.
You really want to look at the demand for these apps. Firewalls for XP are in high demand.
More advanced intrusion detection would be nice
Easier to follow rules.
A MUCH more advanced monitoring system.
The way I see it, you should build the rule making right into the Firewall Events part of Comodo.
You should make Comodo monitor centric because of the type of users you’re aiming for.
A MUCH simpler way to manage a firewall is to watch the traffic in real time and simply click on the stuff you want to make rules up for.
The way you have it now you have to go through maze of rules
AT THE VERY LEAST
Make Comodo display in the Firewall Event section WHAT RULE IS BLOCKING the different events.
I’m in a situation where I have blocked events and NO IDEA how it’s happening. Putting that all in the Firewall Event monitor would be ideal…or maybe even merge Network Traffic and Firewall Events into some cool one stop central control element.
So, I’m still new to Comodo, but not to rule based firewalls. Still, each is very different.
Seems to me you have some tough competition from the Linux and BSD world though since stuff like pfsense is a free yet fully production level firewall. The more you can standardize your rules and interface approach to be like the production level Linux/unix/bsd stuff the better. BUT with all the added extras of a personal software firewall.
As it stands I feel the rules aren’t easy enough to manage and the network and even monitoring more or less sucks.
Can you make it so that we could actually see what processes are injecting into SVCHOST for instance.
That would be of fairly great help when you really get into making strong rules.