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it is pretty cool I use it

I needed to setup a little at the beginning, but that was ok, or I would mean that if you can make that then you do not need that protection, just use the win built-in firewall, and distribute your data to everywhere, but if you do not want it, then make it right with some better tool, like this Comodo firewall

I switched from Kerio, because of FF 3.5 flash 10 made BSOD, and now it seems that was a good  move

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All very interesting, most of way above my head, but thank you all for all the advice.
As long as Comodo does what it says it does, the little screens do not bother me all that much - little bit annoying, but somehow comforting, knowing that something is happening to protect the machine.

The only thing I do miss is a feature that the windows firewall does have, and that is a more advanced network detection. Everytime you connect to a wired or wireless network, windows asks you whether it's a public, private or corporate network and based on that information it (de)activates some rules. If Comodo could detect networks (instead if IP-adresses) and would trigger some rules based on that information, it would be the greatest of all

I think it's not possible for comodo to include that, or at least it's too complicated to include that.

Imagine, for windows file sharing, you would want to enable it for LAN but disable for WAN(public) right. So, similar to windows firewall, you would block windows file sharing, but have an exception at LAN. But in comodo, how would you want it? Park the exception under the setting for windows file sharing? Or under network setting for LAN?

The windows firewall doesn't offer much control or configuration, but for comodo, it does. Thus having this kind of option will make it very complicated to configure. Not many user would know how to go about it.

I've installed the final version for vista a few weeks ago and I am so happy now . It works a lot better than the beta versions and the new network detection is a great addition (tough I don't see why it notifies me 10x for the same network ).
The defense+ system got a bit annoying so I've just disabled it , I don't visit louche websites and I do have a good virusscanner installed, so the need for the defense+ system is low.

The only thing I do miss is a feature that the windows firewall does have, and that is a more advanced network detection. Everytime you connect to a wired or wireless network, windows asks you whether it's a public, private or corporate network and based on that information it (de)activates some rules. If Comodo could detect networks (instead if IP-adresses) and would trigger some rules based on that information, it would be the greatest of all

Hi Jimmy 89, thanks.

It seems that the more the Comodo "learns", the less often the little pop-ups, and the other warning screens appear.

Comodo seems to work very well, and since I've gotten rid of Norton (finally) my machine is a lot quicker.

Bye now

Dave

As I, as well as many others have learnt comodo loves its popups! but you get used to them after a while

Thanks everybody.
I finally managed to download the software and it is running now - little notifications all the time - "Comodo is learning" or something like that, and also larger pop-ups requesting the equivalent of "Are you sure?", but it seems to be working fine.

I downloaded the pro version when comodo said it had a update and it looks and works really well! The small Defense+ notifications in the bottom of the screen are not to intruding but are still interesting to see whats being loaded!

I've got the new Comodo Pro 3. Very interesting feature set. And there's performance improvement compare to the previous version, considering many features that's added into this version.

Too bad though, it didn't migrate my firewall settings over to the new version when I updated it, via it's own auto update. Maybe due to the difference in architecture. Now have to setup for most of the application I work with. I'm a hardware and software programmer, so the number of software I use is quite a lot, having to do all that again, sigh ;(

The new Defense+ is also quite good. Works more like a virus cum spyware protector. Not a full fledge antivirus or anti spyware, but i think it helps to prevent damaging result from those program that we download from the net. It doesn't need to check against the virus pattern for known virus, rather, it's based on behavior. Being so, it also trigger quite a few false alarm. Well, better to be safe then sorry.

As an overall, I'm quite happy with it so far. Haven't got a need to end task it due to high cpu utilization.

Highly recomended

Re Comodo - I have tried four times today to download it - it takes forever, and somehow, something crashes out every time at somewhere between 80 and 90% download.
Can anybody PLEASE help, please.
I'm going nuts here.