Re: Comodo Personal Firewall

'If I want to do a re-installation or install it on another computer I
always
have to contact the "license site". Oh dear'.
Not true.....it is possible to copy the license between machines after
it is successfully installed on one.

'Do you have to activate your firewall within 24 hours after receiving
the email'?
No, it sits there waiting to be collected...no time limit, why should
we, its free.
However, we do set a limit on the number of collections of that
license.
But we do not restrict anyone from signing up again.

You say its a mistake that we log the IP the request comes from, I
disagree, we don't
subsequently use that information in anyway.
The IP allows us to reasonably provide customers the right currency
pricing, when
they apply for any product that is purchased.

'if a program needs to contact a site for further information it is
considered spyware', i'm
sorry and no offense, but that is the weakest reason I have ever heard,
and if that is
the case then all search toolbars would be classed as spyware as they
contact a database
via the website and provide the results.
Spyware is by definition: Any software that covertly gathers user
information through
the user's Internet connection without his or her knowledge, usually
for advertising purposes.
Our Firewall does not do that, and does not store any data on any of
our servers relating
to the customers information. Except the IP as mentioned earlier.

'Could Comodo block unwanted access through a local proxy'?
I had to ask our developers on this one, that answer came back:

It will ask 2 questions in case of a local proxy :

1. for the application which is trying to connect to the local proxy
2. for the proxy server which is trying to connect to the internet, the
actual connection
attempt will be caught when the proxy server tries to connect.

Comodo - Creating Trust Online

earlybird wrote:
> <garry@comodo.com> wrote in message
>
> thank's for dropping in
>
> > By the time the product reaches market it has already been tested
> > extensively.
> > Obviously not ALL situations can be covered, as with any software.
> > Once we get feedback we can then simulate and fix accordingly.
>
> no, you couldn't. Even if your software is for XP computers there are to
> much combinations in the field.
> I could hangup a specific program with 2 mouse clicks and the author
> couldn't recreate it.
> I think your company has much more testing possiblities, but sometimes you
> have to accept that it wont'work.
> Let's say a computer has 256 Mb memory; you don't know if it's 1 * 128 Mb +
> 2 * 64 Mb or whatever combination.
> It could be important for a problem.
> It's good to have beta testers in the field; I think it gives a product more
> trust.
>
> > The reason the application must contact the web site is to
> > automatically install the license from the license code we send.
> > This avoids manual intervention from the user having to download and
> > install a file to a specific location....and it works well.
>
> of course this will works well; XP users are stupid ;-) and are not capable
> to download and install anything if it requires their intervention. Sony's
> rootkit software also works extremely well.
> It is an option to skip the user interaction, but I don't like it and never
> use this software.
> I think you will understand that there are people who refuses this
> construction; they only install software offline.
> If I want to do a re-installation or install it on another computer I always
> have to contact the "license site". Oh dear.
> Could you use as a privat person the Comodo firewall on more then one
> computer ( let's say for testing your own LAN for weakness from within? ).
> Testing Comodo ( but why should I or must I; you say it's safe ) seems no
> option. OK, how about a compare with my current firewall? Do you have to
> activate your firewall within 24 hours after receiving the email for getting
> the license or could you activate it next month and could you activate your
> license again and again after once having recieved the license code?
>
> > We only ask for Name and email address for the license.
>
> sounds great but this is a mistake. You get more info ( like the real IP
> info ) when the application contacts the website.
>
> > I don't know where 'Spyware' comes into this from earlier in this
> newsgroup,
>
> very easy; if a program needs to contact a site for further information it
> is considered as spyware.
>
> > this product is most definitely not spyware, it doesn't gather
> > information from the machine and it doesn't return any information to our
> servers, so
> > how can it be spyware?
>
> that's how you want to read it. No information to our servers, but maybe to
> another server?
> Zonealarm did; if I remember it well they call it they had to check the
> fingerprints from virusses, trojans, etc.
> The average user is to stupid to know which application is allowed or not
> allowed to contact the internet, so this type of user always granted
> whatever program internet permission. To prevent this behaviour the
> application "phoned home" to ask what to do.
>
> For now Comodo seems a firewall for people without questions; just like the
> build-in XP firewall ( SP1 ) which doesn't protect you for outgoing traffic.
> Microsoft tells you it just works great, but are you well protected enough?
> No way.
>
> One more Comodo question. You have the construction :
> programs/applications --> local proxy like Proxomitron --> firewall -->
> internet access
> Could Comodo block unwanted access through a local proxy?
Received on Sat Dec 3 04:18:43 2005