TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: osdebate
to: Gary Britt
from: /m
date: 2006-11-03 12:44:40
subject: Re: Comod firewall - ditched

From: /m 

> It looks interesting because besides being a firewall it
> incorporates sandbox techniques to isolate disk writes
> for say your browser, etc. if you want it to.

It also sandboxes registry writes.

 /m


On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:21:15 -0500, Gary Britt
 wrote:

>Good to see you here Jeff.  Its at www.comodo.com.
>
>So far I like comodo, but some more tech guys here have complained about its
UI.  For me, so far, the UI seems fine, but I'm not trying to tweak the
thing as much as some of the extra paranoid types do .  I did set
the slider bar for it from the default values to the highest preset
security level and it runs fine and hasn't annoyed me to death the way
McAfee and Norton wanted to do in the past.
>
>The coreforce firewall looks interesting, but its in a beta/pre-release
candidate at the moment.  It looks interesting because besides being a
firewall it incorporates sandbox techniques to isolate disk writes for say
your browser, etc. if you want it to.
>
>Gary
>
>Jeff Shultz wrote: On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:48:10 +0200, Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
>
>  FYI: I've used the Comodo firewall at home for about a week and a half, and
>had to uninstall it today. Seems it had a problem with AVG - I think it was
>that AVG had changed, and when I was trying to read my email Comodo couldn't
>quite decide what to do with the AVG email scanner. Everything else worked,
>I could surf & read newsgroups, but email didn't work. Oh and it plonked my
>CPU usage to 80+ percent constant, probably battling with AVG over who gets
>to check what.
>
>
>I've switched to Avast - it was finding stuff on the customer machines,
>and better yet dealing with it, that AVG Free wasn't.
>
>I'll have to find Comodo - I need another freebie firewall option to stick
>on our Security disks.
>

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5
* Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45)
SEEN-BY: 633/267 270
@PATH: 379/45 1 633/267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.