COMODO Firewall Pro 3.0.14.276 Released

Used to be a die hard outpost pro user, but ive switched to this release and im never going back. Works flawlessly alongside nod32, SAS Pro and ProSecurity and is light on resources - incredible software lol.

 

Coolio, you are a real expert i see. In deed, when i first inspected the firewall ruleset, the first thing that i did was to delete Comodo's self rules and set Windows update to ask. Of course i have also deselected everything concerning auto updates, auto submitting files etc, too.

So System Junkie, my paranoid comrade, don't worry. We 've found the firewall that is meant for us!

 

I agree, it's unbelievable quality for a free product.

 

Imagine, that the last time that i tried Comodo 2.x was more than year ago, i think and lasted for not more than 10 minutes. As soon as i saw some horrible CPU activity with p2p, i uninstalled it and never looked at it again. I also hated the online activation. In general, my opinion of it was that it was too complicated to ever become stable, fully working and light. But now, i am impressed! Maybe it is still more complicated than most firewalls out there, but if you explore it tab after tab, there is a logic behind it and they DID manage to make it work right AND light!

Honestly, unless they find some important flaw, i don't think i will move on from this version. Sooner or later they will brake something trying to implement new features. In their forum i read about plugins. The more you add, the more bugs will come out. This version is "golden"!

 

I also had a similar situation to Fuzzfas. I tried Comodo a year or so ago and removed it after a short time. I was somewhat reluctant to try v3 but I did. I do not use the Defence+ feature, but as a Firewall, for me, it doesn't get any better. This is as easy to use as you want it to be, or you can tinker with it 'til your heart's content. For a company to come out of nowhere to develop a Firewall just a short time ago is remarkable. Comodo v3 is to the point where other firewalls are measured against it! It is an outstanding product, period. For a product of this quality to be offered free is also remarkable. Development is ongoing, consumer input is listened to, what can you say? I also see no reason to move from this version as it is light and does not slow my computer down at all. From what I read here on Wilder's, the only F/W close to Comodo is Online Armor. I have never tried it as I have Vista. I see MikeNash posting regularly, and this is great support for all. But Mike also knows what he's up against. You will always have your nay and yay sayers but Comodo is a fine product. You can call me a fanboy or whatever you want, but, in the two weeks or so I've had Comodo installed, it has worked flawlessly!

 

OA Free is very nice. I tried it just before Comodo. Probably, if i hadn't had this weird upload oscillations with OA, i would have never bothered to try Comodo. OA is newer, so it's natural to require some more polishing. But it is a very nice firewall. The other thing that i *think* i didn't like in OA Free, is that it didn't indicate me the IP towards which the connection request was. But i may be in error, because i only used it maybe for 1 hour.

OA is certainly easier to use and has the wonderful "run safer" feature, which is very nice. OA is certainly worthy of trying it. At the end, it comes down to personal taste. But for sure, those 2 free firewalls, right now give a black eye to most commercial firewalls out there.

 

I just had this new version installed on a "clean" XP Pro machine..... and WOW!!! It's fast... it's light, even with D+ setting enabled. Based on it's latest version.... I might just switch firewalls.
Still can't understand as to how they can offer something this good for free?

 

And do you know what comodo means?

= at ease, comfortable, homy, cushy, easy, convenient

 

Two top quality firewalls with superb support equals good news for us punters!

 

We have tested virtually every firewall since the inception of firewall software, and I can tell you this newest Comodo release is by far the best. I did test OA, and it had a performance impact on every one of our older boxes even though they are optimized for speed. Therefore, at the moment, we have Comodo on all of our computers.

 

Is it possible to block ip ranges..........it looks as though ports can be blocked....right ?

 

Yes you can Rainwalker. See pic.
To use a block list though, you need something else. I think an ipblocker plugin will be built at some point, but PeerGuardian is just fine. Since you use Vista, there's only a beta version available.

 

I have downloaded 276 version on two machines and when I run diagnostics it shows I have installation problems but it seems to be working correctly. When I was installing it on each machine it showed I had a program installed that was incompatible. I did not have these programs installed but must have been some files left when I removed them. 1. How can I determine if the firewall is working correctly even with the problems shown in diagnostics? 2. How can I find the files left on my computer from programsthat I have previously deleted? Can the firewall be working effectively even though the diagnostics shows there is a problem?

 

It can be working fine. But see this file in the comodo program files directory called incompatsw.ini.

It keeps all the location of incompatible apps in there.

 

If I go into the incompatsw.ini file and delete the incompatibility will that solve the diagnostics problem?

 

I think he means that if you open that file with notepad, you will see what programs are incompatible.
Comodo is probably flagging left overs. Check for remaining files, and registry keys - use regedit, or something like Registrar Registry Manager in case regedit doesn't help; if you're not comfortable with this, you should backup the registry with ERUNT before, so you can always revert the changes.

 

I have got to play the devil's advocate and say i have yet to find a free lunch of this size....some would say there is a first time for everything

 

How to export the network rules?
What is the easiest way to not retype all ip ranges if windows is reinstalled?

Beside this functions is extemely useful, I blocked a ip range here and now browsing works much faster.
And the network rules work really not like zone alarm and some vulnerable routers.

 

EezyPeezy

 

I group,

Because this topic, I try Comodo Pro since a day.

I get from Balloon messages: When I open Firefox and Thunderbird, they want install a hook on MSCTF.DLL.?
On Google for MSCTF.DLL I found this .dll have a relation with server or something like that.

Are those Balloon messages of those trial hooks installation on MSCTF.DLL are normal?

Thank.

 

Likely a part of ctfmon.

Thanks for info.

 

Does anyone have problems with the latest comodo version and utorrent?

I've tried the version before this one and I get huge attacks on the comodo firewall free when I close utorrent!

 

I have UTorrent 1610 (not the latest) and all is fine. The attacks when you have CLOSED Utorrent, are perfectly normal. It happens with EMule too. The other clients still try to connect to the port that you HAD active. Change IP if you want to get rid of them. In any case, Comodo is stopping them, so all is fine.

 

Yes I know but with other firewalls I don't get that spam of loging to the harddrive! With comodo the harddrive working to much!

 

I did it to me also.