Serious Discussion Comodo forum hacked?

[bazang]

Xcitium forums are accessible but it wouldn't take an hour to read every post there. I've talked myself into Portmaster (free). I done some reading here and on other sites and haven't seen anything negative. Plus, they're partnering with IVPN which ought to be a plus.

So you are moving from CIS/CFW to Portmaster?

The whole point of using Comodo is for the virtual containment. It's firewall code is rather hacky-hack.

IVPN purchased Safing Portmaster and has plans to take over its operations. The IVPN owner characterized it as a "purchase of Safing Portmaster" as opposed to collaboration. I would suppose that IVPN offers better global infrastructure that Portmaster does not have, although those details are not public. Portmaster did not even list the servers it used in its subscription.

* formally, Nicholas Pestell owns 100% of both IVPN and Safing ICS Technologies GmbH

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At one time I used IVPN across 12 different devices. My direct personal experience with its support of its VPN client was not good - due mostly to the fact there is only a single developer maintaining the IVPN VPN client. Reported problems were never fixed. Windows Updates negatively impacted the IVPN VPN client's performance, and it would take a long time for it those problems to be fixed.

Overall, IVPN support exists to handle account problems, and not technical issues or bugs. The same can be said of Mullvad support, but since I have developed professional relationships with personnel at Mullvad it has been easier to get more serious issues resolved.

Eventually, I dropped both IVPN's and Mullvad's custom VPN clients and adopted the Wireguard client. There is a way to modify the Wireguard client to get it to run in a Windows Standard User Account (SUA).

Seeing your post about Portmaster you triggered my interest. So I did the research and was ready to purchase a year subscription, but now that I know IVPN has purchased Safing Portmaster I will not subscribe. IVPN provided a negative user experience in the past. It is heavy on general support, but very thin on developers (only one that can partially support Windows) and there is no software QA/QC to speak of at IVPN.

Important NOTE: Both IVPN and Mullvad are primarily VPN companies for Linux. The majority of their efforts are for the Linux ecosystem. Windows is only a secondary offering and, consequently, there are more problems for Windows users. Plus neither company has functional software QA/QC.

 

[Chuck57]

I may keep looking for a good firewall, or add Portmaster before IVPN begins making changes. Or, I may just end up with Windows Firewall and Hard Configurator. I could add Sandboxie but it would likely just sit on the desktop and take up space.

 

[simmerskool]

Xcitium forums are accessible but it wouldn't take an hour to read every post there. I've talked myself into Portmaster (free). I done some reading here and on other sites and haven't seen anything negative. Plus, they're partnering with IVPN which ought to be a plus.

I haven't used Portmaster but it looks like an ok firewall, but isn't the real value of Comodo Firewall (& Xcitium) its containment feature, and reading Portmaster website, I did not see a containment feature. So it seems like apple & oranges comparison (or perhaps you're saying a working Portmaster is better than CF with issues -- no argument, just wondering)

EDIT FYI posted this before I read bazang's comment.

 

[simmerskool]

I may keep looking for a good firewall, or add Portmaster before IVPN begins making changes. Or, I may just end up with Windows Firewall and Hard Configurator. I could add Sandboxie but it would likely just sit on the desktop and take up space.

fwiw I think @Andy Ful FireWallHardening along with sandboxie or sandboxie plus would be easy to use and provide "containment security" with Windows Firewall.

 

[ErzCrz]

I may keep looking for a good firewall, or add Portmaster before IVPN begins making changes. Or, I may just end up with Windows Firewall and Hard Configurator. I could add Sandboxie but it would likely just sit on the desktop and take up space.

I still like Windows Firewall Control if I'm using Windows Firewall. Andy's FWH rules don't show in it though CyberLock's Smart Firewall rules do. WFC is quite straight forward and I like that you can click on the IP or Port or file and it'll open a webpage e.g. who.is (you can choose which in the settings) to see if it's legit.

Website certificate still an issue.

 

[Shadowra]

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