CIS & Exploits

[Deleted member 2913]

How good is CIS against exploits?

 

[cruelsister]

A general question, but can be answered by understanding that the bulk of the exploits will first to an inventory of your system to find if you have anything (Java, Flash, etc) that can be exploited, then will proceed to connect out and download the payload. Using the preferred settings, Comodo would rarely even let the initial exploit scout (normally a scriptor of some type)) get that far, and even if it did would prevent the payload download.

If you are interested, I will be publishing a couple of Videos shortly- one in which some very popular 2nd opinion scanners are totally oblivious to scriptors, and another in how Comodo is not.

I should also state that frequently when a person asks about exploits someone will jump in with "keep your applications patched and you won't have problems". Although very true to point, that advise really doesn't hep if either the flaw wasn't yet discovered or a patch is still unavailable.

 

[Deleted member 2913]

The settings you have mentioned in your recent video, I dont use all of those settings.

I hide alerts & all.
FW is set to block.

But for autosandbox I dont change the default.
Default is good against exploits?

 

[vivid]

It depends on what you're expecting. Generally, yes.

 

[hjlbx]

CIS's performance against exploits, just like ESET and Kaspersky, it depends upon settings\configuration - and more importantly, the user.

@cruelsister offers good advice regarding settings.

CIS does pretty good job against malicious scripts - from what I have seen on my system.

I use Comodo because of the way it handles scripts. Other AVs either don't do anything or don't handle scripts very well.

 

[Amiga500]

When i was using windows about a year or so ago i recall coming across a korean website which had a very nasty exploit on it.This is the only time in my computing life i had actually come across live malware on a website and comodo internet security which i ran most of the time on windows successfully protected my machine with its multi layered approach.I can vouch for it then very much so.

Nowadays i use linux but from personal experience comodo is very good against exploits.

 

[Deleted member 2913]

I have always used free AVs, many free AVs I have tried. Its been 15 years since started using internet.
Tried free AVs like MSE, Avira, AVG, Bd , Comodo, Unthreat, Comodo V2, Avast, etc...
Never got infected with minor/major malware.