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Help for v3
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Fellow Comodians (not comedians),

I’m a first time Comodo user and it hasn’t been the best first impression. But, like an eager virgin on a hopeful blind date, I’ll persist and hope to get lucky (:NRD)

I’m running Vista Home Premium with AVG. I installed Comodo yesterday. This may be a related/unrelated consequence: I tried downloading an .exe file (for the first time since installing Comodo). I get a "“You don’t have permission to save in this location” error from Vista. It offers an alternative download directory, but when I click “Yes” it displays the same error again.

In Vista > Control Panel > Turn User Account Control on or off > it’s unchecked (off). There is only one account on the machine set as administrator. I don’t want to activate the real Administrator account (command line: net user administrator /activate) and switch back and forth every time I want to install an .exe!

All the settings in Comodo are unchanged as of the first install defautl settings ie. Defense+ > Advanced > Computer Security Policy > explorer.exe is set to Trusted Application. In Defense+ > Common Tasks > My Protected Files > *.exe is listed as an Executable.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance!

I don’t want to uninstall Comodo if she is indeed a bad date …

(:LOV)

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First of all which browser are you using? When your downloading are you using a 3rd party downloader? Did you block something that was suppose to be allowed? Look at your logs and see if it can lead you to anything.

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For certain functions with Comodo involved i have had to use the real administrator account with UAC turned off to be successful. You can also try the techniques in the FAQ https://forums.comodo.com/empty-t20463.0.html.

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First, thank you Vettetech and sded for your replies.

Vettetech: I’m using IE 7.0.6 and there are no other download managers installed. Both the logs in Firewall > View Firewall Events and Defense + > View Defense + Events are empty. Are there logs any where else I should look at?

sded: I actually read that thread before I posted. It sounds like a very convoluted way to run my machine. At the very least, I want be able to actually save the file. It’s one thing to have file execution disabled, but another to have ‘save’ disabled. Right now, I can’t save - and the only difference between yesterday and today is Comodo. Are you saying that in order for Comodo to allow the function of .exe files saving I have to run as Administrator? Yikes.

Thank you again for all your help!

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I need to run as the administrator with UAC turned off to even save and restore my Comodo settings. :wink: And there are numerous other reports of Vista UAC/administrator issues with CFP3. But since I turned off UAC and always run as an administrator, and let D+ worry about the HIPS functions, problems have gone away. :slight_smile: Don’t know about your specific issue with .exe downloads, but sounds like it.