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Other => General Topics => Topic started by: johnny223 on March 30, 2006, 02:16:59 AM
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does anyone know how to configure comodo personal firewall so that it works best with BT programs?
i used to have zonealarm and it worked well with Bitcomet with basic configuration, but for comodo, eventhough i allowed Bitcomet for all the connections, downloading is very slow. Help much appreciated.
Windows xp, comodo personal firewall, avast personal
thank you
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Hi,
What version of Comodo do you have? The latest is 2.0.0.0
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A firewall either permits or blocks a connection. It doesn't contol the speed of a conection.
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i have the latest version of comodo, 2.0.0.0, and bitcomet 0.62
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but with zonealarm, i had much faster download speed using bitcomet, i was thinking maybe comodo is limiting the number of connnections, thus causing the speed to slow down
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Bob,
I have had a firewall slow down my connection.
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A firewall either permits or blocks a connection. It doesn't contol the speed of a conection.
Some of them, like Comodo, if I'm not wrong, you can set the maximum number of connections of each application so, control the speed.
Other application that does this (shareware) is NetLimiter.
The 'slowing' down of the connection could do to the firewall work itself, processing the traffic, but nothing that much that you can fell. The worse part of a firewall, for me, is if it takes that much resources (RAM and CPU).
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thank you guys for the replies, that was fast. ;D
but is there anyone using comodo firewall, who can advise me to tweak some settings in it that might help with the download speed? i'm not having any problems with other applications
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thank you guys for the replies, that was fast. ;D
Be used to avast forum speed ;D
but is there anyone using comodo firewall, who can advise me to tweak some settings in it that might help with the download speed? i'm not having any problems with other applications
Is it configured to allow all download connections? I mean, probably into the settings of Comodo for your browser?
Do you mean the speed is smaller than compared with other firewalls?
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I'm not using comodo right now and haven't seen ver 2, but the older version in the advanced settings had a box to check for the firewall to do checksums of files which would slow things a bit. Hope this helps.
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what i mean is that, when i had zonealarm firewall, it works perfectly with Bitcomet(BT program),
now that i switched to comodo firewall, downloading files became much slower in Bitcomet.
are there any settings right here that might affect BT downloading speed?
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Hello. Installed and tested Comodo PF today and I can say - not bad program, functional, easy to use, but some pop up windows needs to have some knowledge what components is launched for. eg by Firefox (like macromedia plugins from Windows directory). After all, it works good, but for hell knows what reason my startup took ages, so back to ZA, as my system works stable with it.
I had no problems with torrents using Comodo. ;) Everything was allowed without restrictions.
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Hi,
This was the reason I stopped using comodo - it seems to have problems just freely allowing torrent programs connections. When downloading torrents with it I would disable it and enable Windows firewall, but this got to be a nuisance so eventually I simply uninstalled it. I never found a solution to the problem, sorry.
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Hi,
This was the reason I stopped using comodo - it seems to have problems just freely allowing torrent programs connections. When downloading torrents with it I would disable it and enable Windows firewall, but this got to be a nuisance so eventually I simply uninstalled it. I never found a solution to the problem, sorry.
thanks, i'm glad to hear someone else is having the same problem i do, so for that reason, i'll just switch to another firewall that works well with Bitcomet.
THANK YOU FOR ALL THE COMMENTS ;D ;D ;D
AVAST ROCKS
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I tried comodo 2.0 & found it to be resource hungry. Also, Google Web Accelerator wouldn't work with it. I allowed all application alerts from comodo for GWA & rechecked all settings in comodo for GWA, but Google Web Accelerator wouldn't work. Google Web Accelerator did work in comodo 1.xxx. With the downloads of both versions of comodo I got Trust Toolbar. I ran Pest Patrol to remove Trust Toolbar.
Jetico Personal Firewall works great on my desk top & uses few resources, but JPF doesn't work on my lap top. I don't understand, both use XP SP2.
I returned to ZA Free on my laptop. ZA is "Old Reliable", it works great with no problems & uses moderate resources. When JPF 2 comes out I will try it on my laptop.
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ZA is "Old Reliable", it works great with no problems & uses moderate resources.
Well, with a local proxy application, Kerio does not start it service... first attempt is an error and then, after some seconds the icon disappear from the system tray, although the firewall is running...
Comodo brought me so strange GUI problems... maybe I just use non-standard fonts size... strange...
I've tested Jetico too... I've tryed Sygate...
The old ZA is on it's way... unbelivable.
The best firewall I've used was Outpost Pro (BEFORE they add the antispyware features that turn it into a bloatware).
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Tech,
ZA may not work for you, but it is "Old Reliable" for my computers. Everyone should use whatever firewall works best for their computers. Jetico works great on my desk top, but it has problems on my laptop. I hope the next upgrade of Jetico will work good on my laptop. My laptop would greatly benefit from the low resource demand of Jetico. JPF is staying on my desk top. For now it is ZA on my laptop.
The subject of this thread is "Comodo firewall configuration". Comodo 2.000 needs a configuration fix. Although I configured it for Google Web Accelerator, GWA still wouldn't work. GWA worked without problem on Comodo 1.xxx. Comodo 2.000 uses 60% more RAM than Comodo 1.xxx.
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Comodo 2.000 uses 60% more RAM than Comodo 1.xxx
Sounds like the dragon is getting hungry..... ;D ;D
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Tech, ZA may not work for you, but it is "Old Reliable" for my computers.
You've misunderstood me.
It just not only work in my computer that even I'm using it now 8)
Comodo 2.000 uses 60% more RAM than Comodo 1.xxx.
60% of what amount?
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My Task Manager showed 3 components running for each version of Comodo. The largest amount for 2.ooo was 34+ megs of RAM. 1.xxx showed 22+ megs of RAM.
ZA free had 2 components running, the largest was 13+ megs. Jetico had 1 component running, 4+ megs of RAM.
I briefly tried Softperfect Personal Firewall, 1+ megs of RAM.
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My Task Manager showed 3 components running for each version of Comodo. The largest amount for 2.ooo was 34+ megs of RAM. 1.xxx showed 22+ megs of RAM.
I actually had amount of 45+ used RAM. :o Just try to surf non-stop for hour or two... ;D I saw my system started "chocking" from time to time. comodo was eating too much, it was the reason...
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ZA after being on-line for 4 hours ......
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The subject of this thread is "Comodo firewall configuration". Comodo 2.000 needs a configuration fix. Although I configured it for Google Web Accelerator, GWA still wouldn't work. GWA worked without problem on Comodo 1.xxx. Comodo 2.000 uses 60% more RAM than Comodo 1.xxx.
GWA works perfectly fine here with Comodo 2.0. Whats the problem you have?
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GWA works perfectly fine here with Comodo 2.0. Whats the problem you have?
I allowed all appication alerts for GWA. I triple checked all settings, green light for all GWA settings in one set & in the other everything was "allow". I don't know what the problem is. GWA worked fine with Comodo 1.xxx.
Thank you for your offer to help, but I dumped Comodo & returned to ZA Free.
I'd really like to get JPF working on my laptop. JPF works great on my desktop. JPF uses little RAM & still out did all other firewalls in the leak test comparison. Plus JPF & ZA Free don't come with spyware unlike Comodo. Trust Toolbar is adware & adware is spyware! It spys on our computers to know what ads to show. I got trust toolbar when I downloaded Comodo.
http://paretologic.com/resources/definitions.aspx?remove=Comodo%20Trust%20Toolbar
http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=1775
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GWA works perfectly fine here with Comodo 2.0. Whats the problem you have?
Plus JPF & ZA Free don't come with spyware unlike Comodo. Trust Toolbar is adware & adware is spyware! It spys on our computers to know what ads to show. I got trust toolbar when I downloaded Comodo.
http://paretologic.com/resources/definitions.aspx?remove=Comodo%20Trust%20Toolbar
http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=1775
Please understand that I am not disagreeing with you on the Trust Toolbar, but, the page in your first link has an XoftSpy SE ad at the bottom ... with which some people have had problems. In fact, the page is from the parent company of XoftSpy.
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I got trust toolbar when I downloaded Comodo.
I never got Trust Toolbar when i downloaded Comodo. How come it was installed in your download ???
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I never got Trust Toolbar when i downloaded Comodo. How come it was installed in your download ???
I don't know. My antispyware programs never found Trust Toolbar until after I downloaded Comodo Firewall. You do the math. 1+1=2 for me.
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Yeah I see what you mean. Although I think Comodo's firewall is excellent I really do not want to be dealing with a company that installs adware / spyware. I guess I may go back to Kerio I don't know.
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Yeah I see what you mean. Although I think Comodo's firewall is excellent I really do not want to be dealing with a company that installs adware / spyware. I guess I may go back to Kerio I don't know.
In my post in the thread "Firewall leaktests 2006", Reply #43, I copied & pasted an article from http://www.thundercloud.net/infoave/archives2005/week-203.htm about Comodo products containing spyware. There was a lot of stuff on that page, so I thought it best to paste the relevant issue. Those were not my words, they were the words of the person writing the article.
They claim Comodo firewall doesn't have spyware, but I found differently.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=19849.30
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Just some information. I HAD been using Comodo Firewall, the 1.? version. I also have the paid for version of Spysweeper. When I would run a scan with spysweeper it would find this Trusttool bar in the Comodo program and list it as spyware. I e-mailed Comodo about this. Got an answer from a guy of the first name of Gary from Comodo. He stated that even though he acknowledged the tool bar was there he was very adament in telling me it was NOT spyware. He stated it was very hard to convince companies like Spysweeper to change their way of reporting this.
I didn't want to keep seeing this so I went and changed to Sunbelt Kerio P.F. I know folks have said it fails the leaktest. I have talked to the techs at Kerio. They say if you go into networks, applications, advanced, instead of simple and tell the program to "ask" on both incoming and outgoing requests under trusted sites and Internet it Will pass the leak test. Just thought I would let you know of my experiences. Have a nice day. :)
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I never got Trust Toolbar when i downloaded Comodo. How come it was installed in your download ???
I don't know. My antispyware programs never found Trust Toolbar until after I downloaded Comodo Firewall. You do the math. 1+1=2 for me.
Spysweeper creates a VERY WRONG report guys. It just looks at the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Comodo and if this key exists, then it reports there is a trusttoolbar spyware. If you go and look at that key, you will see that the key is used by comodo firewall.
So I am pretty sure that antispyware spysweeper works incorrectly in detecting this adware.
You can try to rename the key and rescan to see that they just look at the existance of the key but no further. You will see that spysweeper wont detect trusttoolbar.
BTW, I have asked this to Comodo Support and verified my details.
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JPF uses little RAM & still out did all other firewalls in the leak test comparison. Plus JPF & ZA Free don't come with spyware unlike Comodo. Trust Toolbar is adware & adware is spyware! It spys on our computers to know what ads to show. I got trust toolbar when I downloaded Comodo.
http://paretologic.com/resources/definitions.aspx?remove=Comodo%20Trust%20Toolbar
http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=1775
Comodo 2 is better than Jetico in terms of leak test results mate. The leak test site shows results for Comodo 1.1. Comodo 2 passes the latest leak tests where JPF fails. But i agree Comodo uses more memory(~38 MB) than JPF or ZA free.
About installing spyware, i recomennd you to change your spyware because as i wrote in my another post in this thread, it gives you a false alarm. Use a better spyware scanner for example adaware. Adaware did not detect anything in my PC.
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Spysweeper creates a VERY WRONG report guys. It just looks at the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Comodo and if this key exists, then it reports there is a trusttoolbar spyware. If you go and look at that key, you will see that the key is used by comodo firewall.
So I am pretty sure that antispyware spysweeper works incorrectly in detecting this adware.
You can try to rename the key and rescan to see that they just look at the existance of the key but no further. You will see that spysweeper wont detect trusttoolbar.
BTW, I have asked this to Comodo Support and verified my details.
I don't use Spysweeper. I use other antispyware programs. There are others that detect Trust Toolbar. Google for Trust Toolbar.
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Someone please clear something up for me.I have used comodo since it became available back in Oct. last year(using jetico at the moment).At no point have I been prompted to install a toolbar while using comodo.QUESTION: This toolbar installs in your browser...Right?
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I believe Comodo did (do?) an anti-phishing toolbar which is separate from the firewall. By its nature, an anti-phishing toolbar monitors sites visited and checks that they are not on a database of phishing sites. The toolbar therefore collects personal information. Comodo were apparently not sufficiently careful with personal information collected and were classified as spyware for this reason.
I was using a hosts file when I first looked into the Commode firewall which blocked me from visiting their site. I looked into the issue and found that the company was certainly legitimate, and whatever problems they had with their toolbar are not connected with the firewall. Indeed, I even tried the firewall briefly.
The firewall does not install the toolbar in your browser.
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Someone please clear something up for me.I have used comodo since it became available back in Oct. last year(using jetico at the moment).At no point have I been prompted to install a toolbar while using comodo.QUESTION: This toolbar installs in your browser...Right?
Yes. It is an add on to IE, but it is invisible. Only a malware detector can find it. What good is a toolbar you can't see? Malware doesn't want to be seen.
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[quote author=rdmaloyjr link=topic=20208.msg169845#msg169845
Yes. It is an add on to IE, but it is invisible. Only a malware detector can find it. What good is a toolbar you can't see? Malware doesn't want to be seen.
Does antispyware not remove toolbar? What little I use IE I don't notice any strange behavior.I only use ad-aware and Spybot S&D and they never find anything.In fact,I cannot find a trust toolbar listed on comodo's website,maybe I missed it.
The firewall does not install the toolbar in your browser.
I agree with freewheelinfrank .Just IMO.
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I think the Trust Toolbar evolved into the Verification Engine:
http://www.comodogroup.com/products/free_products.html
Looking at the eTrust Spyware entry, it seems the toolbar was entered into the spyware database because it failed to ask user permission for a change (fair enough) and transmits URL's entered to the company's website which is what other anti-phishing toolbars do.
Unless somebody wants to correct me here, I think Trust Toolbar was a legitimate anti-phishing tool which fell foul of the anti-spyware companies due to not asking permission before installing a BHO, not a piece of malicious spyware or even adware.
Research completed 04.20.2005. Based on eTrust PestPatrol Spyware Scorecard v2.0 Trust Toolbar v3 violates the following criteria: First, Changes browser settings, for example the default search provider, home or error page(s) etc., without user permission at time of change. Trust Toolbar installs an Internet Explorer URL SearchHook (c:\windows\system32\srhook.dll). When a user types an address into Internet Explorer without including a recognized protocol, IE will utilize the available SearchHook.
Second, silently connects to an unintended location to transmit personal information. URLs entered in IE are transmitted to www.trusttoolbar.com.
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pest.aspx?id=453094124
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I have been using Verification Engine alongside Comodo firewall and Ad-Aware, Spybot S & D and Windows Defender do NOT detect any spyware or adware on the computer. I must say that the verification engine is a very useful tool in detecting phishing sites and I don't believe there is any serious issue with it from what I've read. Does anyone have a different opinion?
I'm still a little unsure about going back to Kerio I think I may stay with Comodo.
Mike
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Someone please clear something up for me.I have used comodo since it became available back in Oct. last year(using jetico at the moment).At no point have I been prompted to install a toolbar while using comodo.QUESTION: This toolbar installs in your browser...Right?
By Installing Comodo personal firewall, you do not install any toolbar. As i said before, the weak spyware programs are just looking for a registry entry which is common in all comodo products. Comodo personal firewall is completely spyware free. Softpedia also says it is 100% clean. check
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Firewall/Comodo-Personal-Firewall.shtml
If any spyware program reports trust toolbar issue, then they are really unclever spyware scanners. Think about replacing them.
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Someone please clear something up for me.I have used comodo since it became available back in Oct. last year(using jetico at the moment).At no point have I been prompted to install a toolbar while using comodo.QUESTION: This toolbar installs in your browser...Right?
Yes. It is an add on to IE, but it is invisible. Only a malware detector can find it. What good is a toolbar you can't see? Malware doesn't want to be seen.
This is completely wrong. I was using the trusttoolbar before. It was like the google toolbar and was showing the credidentals of a site while you browse.(name, owner info, company address etc.). I could not find it in the Internet so i guess it is replaced with verification engine as FreewheelinFrank pointed out.
In my opinion, if any spyware program is reporting trustoolbar is found after installing Comodo, that is because the spyware scanner is not intelligent enough.
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Someone please clear something up for me.I have used comodo since it became available back in Oct. last year(using jetico at the moment).At no point have I been prompted to install a toolbar while using comodo.QUESTION: This toolbar installs in your browser...Right?
Yes. It is an add on to IE, but it is invisible. Only a malware detector can find it. What good is a toolbar you can't see? Malware doesn't want to be seen.
Where did you get this info? What malware detector can spot this invisible toolbar? I've been using Comodo for a very long time and I've not spotted a single problem like this before. I doubt Comodo would pull such scheme by automatically installing a toolbar during the installation of Comodo Firewall
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G'day,
Has anyone come across an error "1608: Unable to create InstallDriver instance" error when installing comodo firewall. The dialogue appears after the .msi script is downloaded.
I have tried disabling all security apps (Arovax Shield, AVG 7.1, Ewido and external H/W firewall) prior to running the setup, but it fails with the same error.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Ewen :-(
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Hi ewenb,
Welcome to the forum.
Hopefully the following link will help you solve your problem.
http://support.softartisans.com/kbview_572.aspx
Just to clear things up, this is not a Comodo problem but rather a
problem with Windows Installer from InstallShield.
To solve this problem, you may need to download and re-install Windows Installer (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4B6140F9-2D36-4977-8FA1-6F8A0F5DCA8F)
Remember, by letting us know if this solved your problem, you'll also help others with a similar problem.
Thanks :)
In the future, unless your problem is directly related to the subject of the thread, please
start a new thread. It makes it easier for all who are searching for help.
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:DI've just come back and browsed through the forum and picked up this thread and thought I'd throw in my 2 cents worth about Comodo's 'spyware ' trust toolbar.
If you go to this link http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=197671&page=5 you will find out the real story about it. A offer of $10,000.00 has been made to anyone who can prove it is spyware or adware.