Comments on: Comodo Anti Virus Reviewed

By: dxg

dxg — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:56:59 +0000

For the record, AVG is rather bad at picking up viruses. Something like AntiVir is far better.

I’ve spent several years cleaning viruses from PCs.
AVG much like Norton has a habit of happily coexisting with viruses rather than spotting and removing them.

Yes, as a package AVG free seems quite good, doesn’t annoy you, etc, but let’s not forget it’s purpose: Detecting viruses. And at that it fails far too often.

By: Ron Schenone

Ron Schenone — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:08:14 +0000

Thanks Ami – good point.

By: Ami

Ami — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:30:36 +0000

You forgot to mention one important issue, which is actually the reason why I chose Comodo: it is also free for business use.

None of the other free AV extend their free stuff for commercial use…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:47:28 +0000

I’m a blind user I was wonder how accessible it would be with my screen reader jaws?

By: steonet

steonet — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:49:56 +0000

In the virus.gr classification (10 august 2009) Comodo arrives in the 19th position:
http://www.virus.gr/portal/en/content/2009-08%2C-10-august-05-september

It recognized 95.7% of the malware

By: R.

R. — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:21:50 +0000

I found that comodo av was very effective after testing it. This included disabling the comodo av and hiding some virus’s from eicar.org. Comodo av found the first two just through heuristic scan and the rest after a scheduled scan. Comodo in general is a joke. I have never seen software of a feather clash as with comodo. And I would vote for Avast AV over AVG. The same for me, If its free it’s for me..

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 17 May 2009 00:29:25 +0000

Hi:

I did extended watching on varies antivirus and internet security test videos from youtube from the famous tester mrizos whom is pc tech and test different products against 100s or malwares and etc to see which is solid. here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=mrizos&view=videos. He also has a web site where you can read more on the products and test and e-mail him which is: http://remove-malware.com/.
According to his video tests AVAST , Norton and alot of antiviruses and security suits failed big time on cleaning and detecting malwares. Avira, GDATA, PCtool internet security and Comodo internet security wre among the few that passed and detected all malwares .
Anyway I was a long time user of Avira antivir since it had the best and highest detection in all antivirus tests but decided to use comodo internet security and was amazed it detected 34 malwares that the mighty avira antivir missed. Avira always had beated other antivirus products hands down in detection of malwares and now failed against the comodo antivirus. Anyway I am using it as of now and is great.

By the way check those videos from the link and see the tests of different anti-malware softwares for yourself and decide which is best.

Also a tip if you want to never worry about malwares every again then get a sand box like sandboxie, geswal (do an internet search and see why its the future of malware detection) and a hips application. For example I use sandiebox and comodo internet security right now and thats it. sandiebox for safe internet browsing and the comodo internet security for anything I download or install to scan.

By: randy

randy — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:12:02 +0000

I have been using Avast Anti-virus after discovering how reliable it was and Comodo for the Firewall. It was becoming more and more frequent that Comodo would cause the customers system to be blocked from the internet. As good a firewall as Comodo was, i had to replace it with a highly rated Online Armor Firewall. I wrote to Comodo trying to get a response to the issue with the firewall problem and have not received a response from them yet. I talked online with a support staff person, but did not expect to get a solution to the issue. The Comodo Anti-Virus was intriguing and would have considered it, but i was already using one of the best if not the best anti-virus program out there, with Avast. Avast has almost every time caught a virus during the initial scan, on customers machines, that McAfee and Norton and AVG did not. It is hard to change from that success. Avast goes on all of my customers machines for protection. With 35 years experience and growing i have learned a lot about bad software. Personally at this point my confidence with Comodo is minimal.

randy

By: Matt 9

Matt 9 — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:36:40 +0000

i have been using comodo for a couple weeks now. as a gamer, i needed an antivirus that is not a resource hog. this is by far the best as far as what its taking up in the background. i use to run AVG, and Avira (and still put those on customers computers) but as a gamer, i think comodo is very good for what i need as far as performace. also, its nice because it has a 64 bit versiob which i currently run due to using XP 64. i had some issues with AVG and Avira. AVG would run 3 or 4 background processes. and, avira would update mid game, and alt tab me out of game. also, avira was a little trigger happy detecting things i knew were not viruses. comodo does not kick me out of game, and doesnt give me too many false alarms.

i hope they keep up with this product, it can only get better. lets just hope they keep it simple and clutter free.

By: Ron Schenone

Ron Schenone — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:47:29 +0000

Hello Anon,
You must of read my mind. Yesterday I had a friend send an infected email and Comodo stopped it.