Comodo has a few problems with rules that don’t ’stick’, also when one discovers this, and tries to remove it, it takes a concerted effort. I’d dare say most users would give up, calling in a professional to help remove it.

Hi Chris,
The results were interesting, although a little misleading, I suspect - surely AVG or MS’s offering provide SOME protection! Then again, perhaps not. What was more interesting was the range of results for the same Firewall product, from various testing programs - made me wonder what was being tested here!

Cheers,

I installed Comodo firewall a week ago. I like it, but I was puzzled by it’s lack of out-of-the-box LAN support. Reading the help files only hinted at a solution and it took some tinkering to figure out that it is necessary to modify the Block and Log IP in or out rule (under Network Control Rules) to exclude my LAN addresses (Edit - Exclude - etc). Would it be such a serious breach of security to rewrite the rule to exclude the default router addresses, e.g. 192-168-1-1 to 192-168-1-100?

I’ve tested Comodo twice. Last fall, I used it in conjunction with McAfee Enterprise Anti-Virus 8.0 with the idea of installing it on systems at work. Eventually, I found that it no longer remembered rules to allow various programs access to the Internet.

When Scott Finney announced that he would be looking at firewalls, we exchanged messages about our experiences and he reported having similar problems with other consumer firewall products.

A couple of weeks ago, I tried Comodo again on my new computer at home - this time in conjunction with NOD32. Within 3 days, Comodo started forgetting its rules and I removed it.

Until NOD32 releases its next version which, as Scott reports will include its own firewall, I’m using the old Sygate Personal Firewall, which can be found on various sites around the Net.

Matousec’s tests should be seen in context - as I understand them, they only measure the ability to detect certain outgoing traffic - which means infection is already present. While this is an important function and I would hate to have to choose between them, I think that incoming issues present a more common threat than outgoing.

I have been using Comodo v2.4.18.184 for about two weeks. I had been using outpost but have recently changed because of some quirks in outpost. It doesn’t play well with some of the new programs I’ve installed. It will not let the programs out on the net at all! Even, if I put them in the “Allow completed access” in the “trusted” zone. I read some of the reviews on Comodo and liked what they had said, so I’ve been using it for about two weeks. So far so good, no problems here, . .except learning to configure rules without the “presets” that Outpost had.

Later,
“JaK”