Comodo Internet Security - Personal Opinion

[EndangeredPootis]

altough I dont use it anymore, this is my personal opinion of Comodo Internet Security Free.

 

[stefanos]

Maybe the best free protection but for persons with experience. Heavy on system with many false positives. Web filter is useless.

 

[WhiteMouse]

I do get some false positives but the problem is usually solved between 3 ~ 7 days after I upload unknown file to Comodo.

 

[show-Zi]

I think there is an automatic sandbox as a cushion for false positives. I think that the user\u0027s evaluation will change in that it takes time, knowledge and perseverance to train.

 

[bribon77]

Maybe the best free protection but for persons with experience. Heavy on system with many false positives. Web filter is useless.

Your AV is heavy and bad, although they say they have improved it. But if the AV is removed and Comodo Firewall is used, it has no impact.

 

[stefanos]

Your AV is heavy and bad, although they say they have improved it. But if the AV is removed and Comodo Firewall is used, it has no impact.

I know my friend. But my AV 360 ts is the best av in this Galaxy

 

[koloveli]

Comodo internet security is very good...
protect virus, alter files, virtualization, filter web and firewall excellent

 

[JakeXPMan]

I found Comodo-IS to be "medium" not heavy on system, but not light either. False positive wasnt too bad. Some pop-ups but not more then Avast.
Its in my top 3 fav AV choices.

To me Kaspersky FREE installed okay, but was really heavy, got rid right away lol.

These I've used on my computers,

1. Bitdefender (free)
2. Comodo Internet Security (free)
3. Avira (free)
4. AVG (free)
and,
Windows Defender (built-in)

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

i will say with comodo, if you have some skills and knowledge in computer, used to tweak security softs, are not too "demanding or perfectionist" about it, and don't mind some very annoying bugs , Comodo is good enough.

 

[show-Zi]

i will say with comodo, if you have some skills and knowledge in computer, used to tweak security softs, are not too "demanding or perfectionist" about it, and don't mind some very annoying bugs , Comodo is good enough.

That's why you left.

Comodo has a lot of difficult parts to introduce casually, and it seems to find bugs when trying to use it in earnest. In other words, I think there is an aspect that beginners and advanced people are excluded from the target of users.

At least not for people who want to click on 'allow' quickly, such as fast finger first.

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

Yeah, i put a lot of efforts into tweaks and maximization of every security softs i use, sadly Comodo has this damn unfixed bug since a decade that prevent me to to it.

 

[mellowtones242]

Yeah, i put a lot of efforts into tweaks and maximization of every security softs i use, sadly Comodo has this damn unfixed bug since a decade that prevent me to to it.

Which bugs? I’ve seen you mentioned about Comodo bugs before can you tell me which bugs?

 

[Venustus]

Which bugs? I’ve seen you mentioned about Comodo bugs before can you tell me which bugs?

A "notorious" one is where the firewall forgets all your allow/deny rules
@Umbra can elaborate further...

 

[bribon77]

Yes, possibly this is an error that @Umbra refers to. Maybe it's because it uses a very severe configuration. I used Comodo since it started, it wasn't even in my language, it was translated by a colleague, in the Softonic forum in Spanish, whose name was Pablo Ino, he was Argentine, and I never had a problem, maybe I've been lucky

 

[mellowtones242]

Well, I've used it at the enterprise level for some clients along with myself and team there is not much of a difference except that everything is pretty much managed from the portal. We've had one major issue with an update a few months back earlier in the year were the firewall driver pretty much broke the network and internet side of things which resulted in disabling Comodo's firewall driver to get network and internet connection going again this was resolved, the other issue that is pending is network printing HP software and drivers being blocked by firewall. But I must say Comodo has been pretty solid otherwise.

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

A "notorious" one is where the firewall forgets all your allow/deny rules
@Umbra can elaborate further...

It is worse than that, basically Comodo will auto-delete all rules in the HIPS, etc.. (even the default ones, leaving the list blank). The bug was reproduced and submitted (even by members here) plenty of times, without any fixes.
The condition to make it happen is that at some point Comodo can't handle a vast amount of rules and will suddenly trigger this auto-deletion.
The thing is when that happen, the user isn't even informed, only clue is that alerts you already allowed/denied start to pop-up again.
One colleague had a discussion with the main Comodo developer, and the fix requires a full rewrite of the code, which was said, won't happen soon since few users would have hundreds of rules.
It was that day I ditched Comodo and never looked back.

Comodo concept is very good, one of the best years ago, complete free solution.
But as I often said, the implementation is far from perfect, and you can see it with many of their products; excellent concepts, hyped like crazy at the start and abandoned few months later...

Yes, possibly this is an error that @Umbra refers to. Maybe it's because it uses a very severe configuration

Indeed, this is the reason.

When you seriously beta test (or work as i did in Quality/Assurance, you squeeze the security product to an extent not done by classic users. You do things, that aren't supposed to be done or that won't be done by regular users. You do it because somewhere, someone may do it too, and if it is some big customers and the product fails because of it, they will look elsewhere for a more solid solution.

 

[Mjolnir]

@Umbra.....Have you found another security soft that is able to handle the vast amount of custom rules that you inflict on security products?

 

[ForgottenSeer 823865]

@Umbra.....Have you found another security soft that is able to handle the vast amount of custom rules that you inflict on security products?

Those i used in the past or use at the moment:

1- NoVirusThanks product line: NVT OSarmor , NVT ExeRadarPro, NVT Smart Object Blocker. They are the best for it.
Those are very well coded, simple, not bloated, few bugs and even their betas are pretty stable, they have no (visible) limitations for the amount of rules you can create and the rules' syntaxe is not difficult to master. Cherry on the cake, they are free. All those are the reason i consider them the best Anti-exes on the market.

2- ReHIPS, despite being a Sandbox, its Application Control module allow a lot of rules but it is less customizable and easy to implement than NVT products. Good understanding of ReHIPS is required.

3- in a lesser extent Appguard Solo (128 rules) and Appguard Enterprise (256 rules). those products aren't for home users. so no need much discussion about them.

4- for those with Win10 Enterprise , Applocker seems limitless.

There are probably other products but i don't need them, since i am a big fan of Default-Deny apps and i consider those above the top apps in their respective fields.

 

[Chuck57]

As I said in another Comodo thread, I used Comodo FW for many years. I liked it until recently when I had major problems and moved first to REHips, and now to Hard Configurator (with ConfigDefender and Firewall Hardener). Other than not having outgoing firewall control, Hard Configurator is an ideal choice . The only people who couldn't deal with it are those who just have a need or desire to fiddle constantly with settings.

As for Comodo Firewall and the pros and cons, I think it's you either love it, or you love to hate it.

 

[Andy Ful]

I think, that CF + any on-demand scanner (like HitmanPro) can be a good choice as the only real-time security on laptops with Windows XP and Vista. These outdated Windows versions are far safer when highly restricted. Furthermore, the Firewall on Windows XP and Vista is not good - that can be a serious security issue for laptops, because they sometimes will not be connected to the home network.
CF has a file lookup feature, which works much better for Windows XP and Vista, as compared to Windows 7+.
The system can be restricted by using @cruelsister settings.