comodo firewall 3.0

that's a French expression: no news, good news. As I'm not actually ready to spend half of my time configuring the advanced firewall in Vista, the only alternative I can imagine at this time is the upcoming 3.0 version of Comodo Firewall. This version will integrate a HIPS, as you might already know, and will be fully compatible with our new baby: Windows Vista. The only problem is that not even a beta has been released yet. Come on guys, we need that firewall again. I haven't posted in the Comodo Forum for a while no. Actually for the same reason: there's not much to comment in such a place when there's no beta testing anymore. Not that I miss these long and sometimes disappointing beta testing phases. but I really think that such a firewall, in his new version, without all the bugs that affected it in version 2.4 of course, is badly needed in Vista. If anyone from the dev team there reads this post, thanks in advance.
Here are the usual links to the web site and its forum:
http://www.comodogroup.com
http://forums.comodo.com

comodo firewall 2.4 ( the end?)

bad news for cfp 2.4, the 100% cpu load on cmdagent.exe happens again, 5 days after the installation. It does not really matter, there's CoreForce as alternative, and cfp 3.0 in two or three months. Funny thing is that cpu load always happens a few days after the installation of a new version. In the meantime back to old windows firewall, the best one, ever (lol).

comodo firewall version 2.4

I've used this new release, non-beta version for more than 4 days now. All I can say is that the cpu load on cmdagent.exe (comodo firewall service) is gone. In these conditions I can only advise desktop users looking for a free and performing solution to install this firewall. It includes features matching some of it's best commercial competitors:

- application, component and network monitor (ability to fully customize rules)
- connections and event logs
- animated tray icon showing traffic (switchable)
- advanced features including packet checksum verification
- adjustable alert frequency level ( valuable for experienced user)
- own registry keys protection
- misc. tasks including the ability to define a trusted network, a banned or trusted application

and a very good support team running a forum at: comodo forum
the firewall download link will be found on the comodo website.

it seems important to mention here that to the future of this firewall belongs a 3.0 version that will include a full HIPS (host intrusion prevention system), among other improvements (that's according to members of the development team at Comodo). A final version should be available in march or april this year (I guess beta testing will start in the coming weeks).

update on this post: Spyware Terminator auto-updated both its software and its database a bit earlier tonight on my PC, and as soon as I started again the UI after that, Comodo Firewall detected a change in the signature of ST.exe, hence I got an alert. Good, very good!

comodo anti-virus

I really do not advise this product. As far as I'm concerned. the only interesting software made in Comodo is the firewall, it is bugged, but it is very interesting. Back to the anti-virus: I've never been able to see it running. Although I read loads of bad reviews about it on the web, I decided one day to try it. Installation issues, and then problems to reboot. had to go to "last known good configuration" in XP boot menu to get my system running again normally. Could reproduce that cycle 2 or three times. and just gave up. Don't try it as long as it is in beta. I'm talking about the 2.0 version. The 1.0, well, it's a 1.0 and it deserves it's name.
If you're looking for a free anti-virus solution, you'll be better off with AVG from Grisoft or Avast from alwil. By the way AVG offers now a really fantastic anti-spyware program. It is partly freeware, you'll find it on the same page as the anti-virus. More on AVG anti-spyware later in this blog.

quick update: the 1.0 version of comodo anti-virus is actually a 1.1 version, and it is also a beta. Forgot also to say that the 2.0 version integrates a minimal HIPS...(?)

non-event of the day

the release of comodo firewall 2.4 ...( see my post in the french version of this blog). Here is a wonderful firewall alert. I could not live without it...

comodo firewall 2.4

I finally made it in downloading v 2.4 from comodo firewall. Going to temporarily uninstall CoreForce, just to give a try to 2.4, a last chance (lol), before 3.0.

ok, done and so far so good...bugs usually don't happen just after a new cpf install, it takes a few hours become they come, and a few days before cpu load becomes excessive. At the moment ram for cmdagent is 5 MB, and 8 MB for cpf.exe. Let's wait and see...more as it comes (lol).

2 hours later cpf.exe ram usage going up to 16 megs...came back to 8, boring, not much to say, it might be more stable than the betas...

comodo firewall 2.4

OK, now the beast is out (lol); would be nice if the site was not under maintenance, and one could download it... This firewall, after all, might not be as sophisticated as CoreForce is, but it is so user friendly, and one needs that too on a computer, but we don't need the bugs. The ui of comodo firewall is a very, very nice one. Hope it's performance will be as nice soon. Good luck cpf!
( Justin gave the link for cpf 2.4 download in his post underneath this one)

Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4 Released

Hello,

Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4 has finally been released you can download it at the Comodo Firewall Home Page

Comodo Firewall Pro RC5

Hello,

Comodo Firewall Pro (Formerly Comodo Personal Firewall) 2.4 RC 5 has been released. For more information please click the title of this post.

comodo rocks: part 2

update on: comodo rocks

I think I've been kind of unjust towards the comodo forum , especially towards the dev team there. Actually Egemen did his best to solve this bsod issue that Messias and other users had and he did it, he solved the issue. Messias did not wait for nothing. Sorry Egemen, my bad.

see here

comodo rocks!

readers, you're gonna have to login to this forum if you wanna reach the links I mention here, cause they're in the "beta corner", only accessible to members.

https://forums.comodo.com/index.php/topic,5225.msg38449.html#msg38449
https://forums.comodo.com/index.php/topic,5225.msg38457.html#msg38457
https://forums.comodo.com/index.php/topic,5225.msg38464.html#msg38464
https://forums.comodo.com/index.php/topic,5225.msg38858.html#msg38858

which means: the poor guy (Messias) has been waiting several days now to get an answer from the dev team on his issue, and in the end he's just advised to do what I suggested him to do a few days ago. Of course Egemen has been through various tests, and speaks about new versions of cpf monitoring the file system now. In which case if Messsias' file system is corrupt, or if a file system driver is he gets bsods. Well I could not be so precise, because I didn't know about this feature of cpf, but in the end result is the same for this poor guy.
He's gonna have to reinstall his OS, just as I advised him a few days before.
He's just been used by the dev team for beta testing purposes. They never wanted to help him, but to help themselves in the progress of v.2.4 development: lol, and I don't know if that's really funny.

Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4.14.157 RC4 Released

Hello,

Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4 RC4 was released yesterday this release featured many improvements and final tests on different languages.

Comodo Fireall Pro 2.4.x.x is currently planned to be released on January 18th. If you would like to see some of the features of the 2.4 release of the firewall before then I recommend you checkout the RC4 release.

For more information, please click on the title of this message.

NOTE: Comodo Firewall Pro 2.4 (beta, RC, and Final, does not support Windows Vista)

comodo firewall 2.4 RC3

hi folks,
downloaded this RC3 of comodo firewall yesterday evening, gonna install it now and see if that cpu load with cmd agent still occurs.

just want to update this post: RC4 is now out, something like one hour after I installed RC3 (lol)