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Stand alone BOClean is leaving us

Now that is to bad and a disappointment

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Bummer.
I've been using that for awhile. It will be missed.

Is anyone here using their CIS now?
How does it rate?

Is there anything else that is free to put in place of BOClean?

I use a router, AVG free, Zone alarm free(for outgoing in case someone ever got in) and BOClean.

Thanks
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Well, that was certainly a less than brilliant decision. Hmmm. I wonder if one will be to activate only the firewall (as is the case now) and BOC in the next version of their suite. If that is to be the case, I could live with that. If not, I give Melih "two thumbs down".
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That does indeed suck, I've been a paid member since 2001.

And I have been using it on my systems and test systems however as of the last 1.5 years I have to say that Boclean has not cought anything that knowingly bypassed my firewall and AntiVirus on my test system. Hell it did not even catch a few day old strains when I decided to turn off my test VM AV and let BoClean handle it.
So in my opinion for the past 1.5 years it served as a piece of mind 2ndary backup just in case some rare strain comes along that it might catch. Otherwise, it was honestly quite useless.

And now it looks like I will have to say goodbye, well I guess I must say that I've seen this day coming since NSclean/boclean/Kevin became part of comodo. I honestly don't see myself installing any comodo product, the only reason I kept Comodo Boclean is because I liked BoClean. I don't know why, but somehow I don't trust Comodo.

Just my 2 cents.

Good luck Kevin and thanks for a great tool. It will be missed as one of my tools that I used to keep my mind at ease.

Cheers!

P.S.
Well Time to take Comodo Boclean from my sample submission list.
Apperently Kevin himself didn't know about Melihs decision, he was told about it by another member.
Somehow, the whole thing about Melih being all good and honest and all about future of security is doubting and the true person can be seen by his actions. Waiting for the moment when some comodo backdoors go online.
Oh and for the part that Kevin is optimistic about it, well of course, Melih is his boss, a backstabbing boss but still a boss, and now that Kevin doesn't have his own company, he has to obey Melih or else he will be out of the job in today's employment strapped economy.

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And the worse part:

"But what realy bothers me is that indeed Kevin had to hear Melih's decision/opinion about BOClean from me, a forum member. Kev answered to me with fair arguments, but he is and will always be an loyal and optimistic guy."

»forums.comodo.com/comodo_boclean···sg249856

Shame on Melih. He couldn't even be bothered to tell Kevin. I don't understand why anyone uses a Comodo product. I have all Comodo root certs disabled in my browsers. I hope Mozilla ends up removing Comodo's root cert from Firefox. That might take some wind out of Melih's sails but I doubt Mozilla will do the right thing.

I agree that incorporating BoClean into a Suite type product and not also keeping it as a stand alone product really sucks. Other security vendors had better not start that sort of crap. I don't like Suites. I won't use them (although I do make an exception as a beta tester for Avira but I never purchase the Avira Suite as I don't like Suites). Everyone should know that you never put all your eggs in one basket but I guess Melih never learned that.
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Man am i ever glad i got rid of BoClean when Comodo took it over, i knew sooner or later this program was going to be weeded out when Comodo took it over. It's sad to see what one persons hard work has or will become now.

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That's very sad. Some of my relatives use BoClean on their Win98SE, nothing malicious ever got past it. I'd hate converting them to XP just for some additional malware protection.

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Thats sad news.
Oh well, goodbye Comodo and goodbye BoClean! (unless they keep a standalone version!) I will not use a suite.

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What a shame! This is really bad news. I just uninstalled BOClean. R.I.P.

Me too. That's it for me as well.

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Good thing I have a copy of the original
saved on jump drive...so I can say...this is when
it was great and Nancy and Kev had the horsy by the reigns

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I agree, this is sad news. I've always felt a sense of security with BOClean on my computers but I have no intention of installing a suite to continue using it.

Can anyone recommend a good substitute for 98se and XPsp2?

Sincerely, Libra

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Uninstalled.

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From the ST developer's FAQs...

"The ClamAV installation is offered only as an Internet download during the Spyware Terminator installation."

...and I declined the installation.
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