Comodo Stinks, Stick with Windows Firewall

Comodo Personal Firewall must be the most annoying firewall in existence! Not only does it create a little pop up in the corner EVERY SINGLE TIME I open firefox, it crashes games too! And for some reason when you run games that use the internet (counter tsrike source), it never creates pop ups asking you to allow them, rather it crashes them!!!! And it also causes off line games to crash too. It doesn't learn, it's very annoying, and causes things to not work. Sorry but that sounds like a hacker to me (minus the not learning). You're way better of with simply Windows Firewall. [/rant]

 

Another poster on the 'Firewall' thread remarked Comodo will either work for you..or won't!

Have you tried manually allowing permission? Dunno if Comodo can do that? I won't be able to try it till I get a laptop soon - I currently use ZL Pro on the desktop, and ironically want to try Comodo as ZL's pop-ups annoy me. I just thought let Comodo learn then hope it beocmes smooth afterwards...

 

Hum.

I don't doubt your problems with Comodo, but plenty of other's have used it and found it very good.

I've been using it and had one issue... I had to turn it off to be able to download my mail.

Turns out that when I uninstalled Sunbelt Kerio Firewall (per their instructions, because the uninstall wouldn't work), it didn't fully uninstall. When, totally by accident, I discovered that Kerio was still either fully or partially loaded on my computer, and I uninstalled it, I haven't had any issues with being able to download my mail since.

Previously used Zone Alarm, which also gave me problems. I would have to launch it, then disable it just to connect to the internet!

Make sure you aren't running two firewalls (or two anti virus programs, for that matter... they'll conflict with each other)... but if Comodo doesn't work well for you, we're lucky that there are numerous other free and pay for options out there!

(I don't play much games, so I don't have that issue)

 

If you tell it to remember your action when you allow a program it won't ask you repeatedly. I started using comodo a week ago and it has caused me no problems at all. Its just initially theres a lot of popups so it can learn wat programs to allow and wat ones to block. Even games have worked fine.

 

better used windows default firewall...

 

I found Comodo very annoying as well. It also killed my wireless usage, as did ZoneAlarm. I could hardly ever connect to my wireless network. And the pop-ups were terrible. I told it to permanently allow Firefox, and it would still send pop-ups every now and then and block features that I use regularly. It sent pop-ups for every single thing and made even the completely trusted applications sound like they could kill my computer. Yeah, you can click 'remember this setting' and it may not ever ask you about it again. But it should also learn that after about a fifty times of you clicking allow that you pretty much want to allow it. It never did. I'm just sticking with Windows Firewall for now.

 

I usually tell people to get a router (hardware firewall) and turn on the Windows Firewall. That is usually enough and doe not cause the headaches these software firewalls seem to cause.

 

I've had similar issues with Comodo. At first the pop-ups were annoying, but I accepted them b/c I figure the program was learning. Now I always have issues connecting to my wireless network. I'm not sure what the issue is, but it seems as if Comodo may be one reason. Right now I am running Comodo, AVG, and Adaware, but may look to get a different firewall if I continue to have wireless issues.

I might just go with the Windows firewall for now and still have AVG and Adaware and see how that works.

 

Brand new free firewall from Ashampoo.
Dunno if it's any good, I don't wanna try it out, but somebody might. It just came out today, so it's pretty much impossible to find any reviews/tests of it yet.

 

I wouldn't want a firewall to learn that after 50 or so allows that I always want it allowed. Some things I only want to allow at certain times, or to know when it's trying to access the internet.

With Bit Defender I have to have two allow rules for Firefox, but I haven't had any popups since.

Does anyone know of a stateful firewall for Windows? It seems that all the ones I've tried, if you've been using an application that got permission to access the network and it requests the network again later, it has to get permission again. Also, there are typically inbound and outbound options, but no inbound only if outbound connection established.

 

Now this is a very neglect and dangerous approach. I don't like myself be called paranoid, but the more you learn about IT security the more you'll now that hardware fireall offer important, but very little protection. It blocks most of the port scans and DoS attachs, but it is buffer overflows and all kinds of "injection" attacks that are the fashion nowadays.

Imagine the following situation: you visit a website, it deliberately crashes your browser (or you get an email that crashes your email application) and with advanced - but by no means unknown - techniques it installs a trojan into your system. From that point on (and because NOT using a desktop firewall) that trojan will be free to initiate a connection from inside (this is always allowed by hardware firewalls) to a designated server. One of the possibilities is to connect to an IRC channel, from where the 'master' can control it by special commands/keywords. This is possible because the trojan acts as an IRC bot. For those, who are interested, i recommend reading this - lengthy - article at GRC.COM

So this is the place where desktop firewalls come into the game and try to prevent all kinds of "leaks". A good comparison of the available firewalls can be found here. It also gives you a very clear reason, why is windows firewall considered to be worse than nothing! Simply put, it gives you a false feeling of secureness.

So my advice is: get a good firewall, whose level of control is on par with your knowledge. Having a very powerful firewall and no knowledge will render the firewall ineffective because of incorrect usage (see firewall fatique).

 

Not mentioning that firewall sometimes like to crash, for example kerio 2.15 one day wasn't allowing any SSL connections. Now I'm using Jetico, it's quite good but sometimes it has some anomalies.

 

i know this is an old thread, but just so i don't end up starting another one on the same subject...how do i disable the pop up feature in comodo? it is highly annoying, i can't...i just can't

 

It causes my CS on LAN to lag **** S*** ... when i shut it down it is normal..

Even after Creating RULE for it to allow CS game completely...it still lags

 

i've been using it for a year know and not one problem. I had popups with everything when i started but now it knows what to allow and not to.