Why Pick Other Firewalls Over Comodo Personal Firewall?

Try Working Set Size. That represents physical memory used. It should be around 25,000 K.

You have the latest version but there should be one released tomorrow.

 

Interesting. I thought PE virtual size was the same thing as TM virtual memory. Guess not.

Check this attachment for more confusement. I'll post a pic of my TM in the next post for comparison.

 

Here's TM showing memory usage and VM size. I don't know how to relate the different numbers seen in TM and PE.

 

That looks more like it, but funny I don't see cmdagent (Comodo application agent) in your PE screenshot. It does show in your Task Mgr ss.

I've attached mine as well. The two Comodo processes combined are a typical 25 Mb.

I see you also have an unusual high number of processes running. I guess if your pc isn't wilting under the pressure, there is nothing wrong with having so many.

 

You didn't see it because I didn't have winlogon.exe and services.exe expanded.

As to the number of processes, hmmm... it's just what runs for me. I probably should clean it up some day.... or not!

I typically have PE, Windows Explorer, Thunderbird and multiple instances of Firefox open as well as a systray full of stuff.

 

Melih, are you referring to the new version that is due out on Friday, when you say latest version will be much (Much) faster? It was 2.3.4.45 that I uninstalled to see if switching from one user to another solved the delay in that account coming up, and unfortunately it has. I am not trying to be too fussy here, but it can be a burden when the other user is your wife and she complains about how long it takes to get on her account, especially when she knows you just added something new to the PC. (LOL) No divorce in the making here, but a new faster version of CPF would help restore the marital bliss that once was, if I could use Comodo with no slow down for either of us. (LOL)

 

Ahh. FUS. I do not use that on my laptop. I run the KIS 6 suite on my main PC and use the Kaspersky firewall there too. No problems with FUS on KIS6.0.

 

The real memory usage (RAM) of a process is given by the "Private bytes" column.
The virtual size of the process explorer is indeed very different from that given by the Windows task manager.

 

Acording to this (TweakHund and Wiki about VM) and based on screen, it fits:

taskman's "Mem usage" column == procexp's "Working set" column and this is the amount of memory that is actually being used by the process.

taskman's "VM size" column == procexp's "Private bytes" column and this is the total amount of code+data that has been assigned to the process, though not all of it is necessarily in use.

procexp's "virtual size" is simply a representation of the amount of
virutal memory that has been allocated to the process.

 

Hi speedlever

according to your pics , Comodo TaskMan "Mem Usage" = 6344K+8044K < 15M
It's Ok

 

Mines about 16MB And im using avast with it and no slow down!

As soon as i posted this the cpf processes went down to 3mb

 

If I remember from last week when I tried that comodo but was not happy with the primitive level of making rules, there were 2 files starting with letter c. 3 when that lauch center was running. But those 2 files did take 24 to 25 MB's.
Maybe you have posted enough here coolio as a fanboy of this thing?

Cannot trust a firewall that stores rules in registry and allows them not to be saved. Primitive logging features.
Only good thing that can be said is that it (maybe) is good with stupid leaktests.

 

Tom, I feel the same way. No fanatacizm here either. I'm a registered user of Outpost for nearly two years. It is an awesome firewall in its own regard, and I have always thought of it as being the best, for me, available pc fw I have ever used. I just wanted to try Comodo because of the hype it has been getting from some in this forum. Approaching my testing of it from a very unbiased point of view, I have been astounded at what I have seen from it. It is truly a first rate firewall and, IMHO, gives Outpost a run for its money.

 

After reading all 6 pages of this thread I decided to install Comodo for the first time. I have plenty of knowledge of software firewalls and this one is a piece of crap and I cannot believe I have wasted my time with this.

- It has completely disabled AntiVir's Guard and greyed out the option to start it

- It has 2 system tray icons which have essentially the same options in each (I am curious to know why they have done this, as opposed to just having 1 system tray icon)

- After a default install I was able to go crazy with Firefox, Thunderbird, and a few other programs with NO pop ups asking for permission to access the Internet. Security level is on custom, all default options. You would think they would offer some security out-of-the-box.

- The GUI is damn ugly and does not fit in with the rest of the operating system and programs

Upon submitting this port, I will be removing this program and visiting the Comodo site to see if they have a removal tool to ensure it is completely gone and will return to using just a well secured, well configured NAT router with SPI. I am honestly mad that I even tried this program. Hopefully AntiVir's Guard will work once this is gone.

 

Some aplications (ATI CCC) need internet access in order to run.
Although it is interesting, that it did not ask for any aplication rule.

As far as I know, FF needs TCP loopback rule, but Comodo should ask for it.

Comodo has more products than just a firewall, if someone use more of them, it can be usefull, but if just one aplication is used, it just wasted 5 MB. Download this REG, run and restart.

It is not possible to make all users happy. In fact I did not like the GUI neither, when I installed it first time, because I was acustomed to Outpost's GUI, but I get used to it in and I like it.

 

Wow! DaveD. The only problem I experienced using version 2.3.4.45 was only that it slowed down my PC a slight bit when switching from one account to the other. As a matter of fact, although there are problems with this release that are posted in their Forums, none of them seem to be at the level of which you speak. Personally I like Comodo as I have tried and had my share of problems with SKPF and ZA Free, and am simply waiting for the next release of Comodo due out I believe today or next week that should take care of my particular problem. This however is my point. SKPF is still having problems with their Firewall as is ZA, and unlike what I have read about some of those problems, I can assure you that Comodo takes much pride in solving any problems that people are having with their Firewall as quickly as possible. As for the GUI of Comodo, that was one of the best things about it for me. It was laid out in an order that I thought was fairly easy to understand, and even when I did have a few questions about some alerts I received in my logs, the users here and in their Forum were quick to help me. I'm not saying your wrong in the way you feel about your problems, or attacking you. It's just that I am surprised at the level of problems you had with the Comodo Firewall and with the level of your anger about it. Take care now.

 

First Comodo problem reared its head today. I chose to exit the FW via rt click on the systray icon and I enabled the XP firewall to see if I had a Comodo firewall problem with an app that wasn't working.

When I rebooted the computer, I got 3 pop-ups from Comodo telling me the App Monitor, the Component Monitor and the App behavior analysis were not working and that reinstalling the program may fix the issue.

A quick scan of the Comodo forums did not reveal any info about this. When I go to the App Monitor page and try to turn on the feature, the button won't select. Same for the other disabled functions.

More reboots don't fix the Comodo problem.

Anyone seen this?

Edit: I uninstalled/reinstalled Comodo. Upon installation, I got a msg about an update available. I updated.. the new version was the same..2.3.4.45. Restarted and got another update msg and this time got 2.3.5.62.

 

This version fixes the problems with the people that kept saying some programs had no alerts or had slow startup.

 

Anybody installed it so far?

 

I have. I let comodo update itself. No problems.

 

Working here very well...

 

me too

 

It's making my PC too noisy. Going back to Outpost.

 

All,
Just updated. All is running just fine not a single problem. I like the way it tells you exactly what it is doing, when and what to expect next. Fully automatic if you allow it when it asks. This firewall is ideal for a newbie imho.

 

I updated to the latest version but now I'm back to the same problems as before.
I did a clean reinstall of CPF, I didnt update it through the updater option of CPF.

So now what happens?

1) No alerts to programs starting up when I log on.
This is all BEFORE any rules have been created or any programs have been allowed access.

2) When I create rules for programs I get asked if I would like to allow those same programs a few minutes later

I've never had this problem with OutPost Pro or even something as old but still trust worthy like Kerio 2.1.5.

My AV, NOD32 was allowed to start automatically with no alerts, I even clicked on the update button of NOD32 and nothing, not a peep from CPF, same goes for a couple of other programs.