Comodo Firewall issue - Possible alternatives

This morning I turned on my desktop PC and received an error message from Comodo Firewall: "Application could not start because of an error connecting to database."

Has anyone ever experienced this problem? I didn't download anything from the last time my PC started up fine. I'm worried because I don't have any firewall running at the moment. Should I download an alternative firewall?

I'm running Windows XP SP3 (too poor to get Windows 7) and have only Comodo Firewall installed as security software.

 

Only on reference (not very useful) on Comodo forums
http://forums.comodo.com/antivirus-...rror-connecting-to-its-database-t71200.0.html

I suspect a settings for Defense+ that controls checking files in cloud

 

Fixed the problem. After uninstalling Comodo I didn't delete the folders in application data. Once I did that the install was just fine.

 

I would be somewhat concerned if a firewall failed to start because of a failure to connect to a remote IP/Site. Issues such as the remote IP/site being down, possible routing problems (etc) could prevent the firewall from starting.

Your first post did not mention a problem installing, just that the firewall "did not start" and "last time my PC started up fine"


Strange post.


- Stem

 

I agree I would be concerned too if a firewall fails to start if it cant connect too a remote site. I installed Comodo last night so lets hope thats not the case.

 

You shouldn't have to delete the folders in appdata when reinstalling either.

I have never seen such an error in Comodo. I only find two hits for the error string with Google and they're both your posts, even though one response to you post on the Comodo forums says that "You are not the only one this has happened to recently."