mvdu
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join:2003-07-28
Collegeville, PA
| reply to Grail Knight
Re: Comodo Internet Security.
I don't begrudge you either; it's a personal choice. If I knew that Comodo needs the money, which I don't, I might think differently. It's the certs issue and response that finally made me not use it, though I did not like the toolbar thing. IMO they have a security product, so they can lead on cert issuing. |
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Grail Knight
Who Dares Wins
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join:2003-05-31
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| People and companies make mistakes.
When choosing a security program IMO one must take into account software issues, security issues, company issues, support, history and then make a decision.
It is often hard for new users to discern which program to choose when a thread often turns into a platform of "My choice is best" or "This company is better then yours."
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mvdu
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join:2003-07-28
Collegeville, PA | I took those into account and decided not to use Comodo right now. Of course, I'll give them a second chance if they change their ways. |
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Grail Knight
Who Dares Wins
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join:2003-05-31 | Enjoy whatever you choose.
Cheers!
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Doctor Four
My other vehicle is a TARDIS
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join:2000-09-05
Dallas, TX
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The two things that some people object to as far as Comodo goes are their continued issuance of security certificates to malware, as exposed by Mike Burgess in his hosts blog, here and here, and their bundling of the Ask toolbar with their security products.
Personally, I am willing to give them a second chance on both accounts, but I dumped their AV in favor of Avira Anti-Vir Free, after seeing that it did pretty poorly on a lot of tests, and on VirusTotal reports.
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Ravenheart
join:2006-02-10
Berkeley, CA | Something was never clear to me...are certificate issuers expected to judge the content of sites? Do other issuers customarily do that? |
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poppster
Tell the truth and then run.
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join:2003-12-23
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said by cork1958  :Sheesh! What kind of sites is your wife visiting that you need all that running anyway? Shouldn't need anymore than the firewall and av, and personally, I never run av in real time either. Well, I do have Spybot's SDHelper. No teatimer. myspace really....if one of her friends page gets hijacked it's all over.
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oxymoron69
join:2004-11-10
Belleville, ON | reply to poppster
For the past year the only firewall I run on my pcs is comodo. |
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poppster
Tell the truth and then run.
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join:2003-12-23
Midwest
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| We love PCTools Firewall Plus, it has a hips module and it works very well, with minimal alerts. I was just really looking for an all-in-one package I guess.
»www.youtube.com/user/mrizos review of the new Microsoft A/V looks pretty promising too... |
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Mannus
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join:2005-10-25
Fort Wayne, IN | reply to poppster
I run AVG free (nightly scans), ThreatFire (BoClean previously), and Peer Guardian 2. I also run behind a router and use Windows Firewall. This setup works for me. |
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haxc
@ia.us | reply to poppster
comodo rules! |
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poppster
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Just a little update. My wife's machine was acting kinda funny, so I did a boot time scan with Avast. It didn't find anything. Then Avast shut itself down and wouldn't respond or restart without a reboot. I then decided to try CIS 3.9 av and firewall. I tell you guys, it's pretty decent...it found 14 nasties on her machine (iwin games, I know...I know...) installed without a hitch and is very light on resources. I won't ditch Avast Pro on my machine however. I don't think it was a problem with avast so much, but a problem inside of her pc. Avast is still my first choice, but CIS is running very nicely on her machine, and taking up half of the resources that Avast did.
That is all. 
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juilinsandar
Texas Gooner
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San Benito, TX
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I've had CIS running on my cousins laptop for over a year with no problems other than the iwin games quarantine issue. She loves jewelquest. Anyway, I updated it yesterday from 3.8 to 3.10 with no problems.
On my laptop I use Avast Free, Threatfire Free and Comodo FW. I've yet to have any problems with this combo.
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