Actually CIS is a pretty good option for those companies that don’t want to spend any money on protection, yet they want to have something. It’s better than ClamWin and can be used in commercial environments.
and modfying a few bytes of a binary is often all that’s needed to bypass the AV. WHAT!!? Tell me your joking.
Well, that’s certainly news to me.
This is true for all AVs, actually… though to varying degrees of difficulty.
Yeah, well most of free AV’s are strictly limited to home personal usage only. CIS however is not as it’s free anyway (Pro pack is just extra insurance and support). So yeah, it can be used even in companies…
I meant the “better than ClamWin” part. ;D
Attention! This is in no way a recommendation by me for anyone to install CIS betas! but…
CIS Beta 3.5.61373.458, including many of features listed above (e.g. no CIMA based “heuristics” yet) was released yesterday. Most horrifying is the almost orgasmic (in one case literally) euphoria of many users/testers’ forum comments. :o :
;D
Well it has some awful scanning problems. It took like 2 hours just to scan harmless MP3 files where avast! would have completed that in like 10 minutes at most…
Took a quick look to see what was happening, and other than the euphoria there seems to be an incomplete alpha product that has been released for public testing and for investigating the potential of some interesting new features. If you enjoy security product testing as a hobby, seems lots to have fun with and try out as the product matures. But as Comodo warns, it is not for a production environment, or for use in a machine you are dependent on. John Navas summarized it well at http://forums.comodo.com/comodo_internet_security_cis_firewall_av_and_defense/comodo_internet_security_3561373458_beta_qas_feedback_screenshots-t33174.0.html;msg238581;boardseen#new . So looks like the answer today is still Avast! by a wide margin.
No that is not true I am using it and it is wonderful it makes me breakfast in the morning and supper at night, it also controls my home security. (If you believe ANY of that then send me cash to PO BOX 453 thanks.)
This should give the Comodo mods plenty to do also. Maybe they can open a PayPal account for gratuities? 
In all honesty I see Comodo (as in the suite C.I.S) getting worse before it gets better.
Lol I would not put it past them they say they have a huge team all working on different products, hmmmm that I think is a lie they might have a big (maybe 300 staff) team but when they have a deadline they all work on the same product as some products they have there have not been updated in quite a long time.
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Have you ever been involved with major software developments? Seen the problems of wrapping that many people around a product, even with a whole lot more discipline than Comodo exhibits? There seems to have been a misconception on the existence and completion of the new features in the beta, at least by those who understand what a beta is. But Comodo so far has shown the deep pockets necessary to fix things. Again, good luck to them, but ???
Ah ha but that’s my point having money does not mean all products they produce will be perfect (in saying that nothing is but.) I think they should just work on what they are good at and leave the rest, Comodo is trying to be all things to all people, but right now they are coming across as jack of all trades master of none.
A lot of potential upgraders seem to be taking a “wait and see” at this point because of the extent of the new beta, and the more heavily involved are beta testing it as expected. No idea of their future beta schedule. But a bit more maturity in the betas might avoid some of the messages they get like http://forums.comodo.com/forum_policy_violation_board/this_is_why_the_world_needs_comodo-t29645.0.html (banned, removed, heavily censored, but still publicly available for some reason. And funny! )
There is no way that thing is going on my PC I’ll let the other “smart” people test it. Lol @ forum post with rude words removed by mods.
Hi Guys,
We have just released COMODO Internet Security 3.5.61373.458 BETA.
Whats new in 3.5.61373.458 BETA?
NEW! Threatcast integration: COMODOs community based alerts reply statistics reintroduced
NEW! Native Vista Firewall: New COMODO Network Stack based firewall engine using new vista technologies(dramatic performance improvements)
NEW! Native Vista HIPS: New Vista HIPS compatible with Vista PatchGuard. Now Defense+ introduces kernel level protection in Vista SP1 X64 or later
NEW! COMODO Memory Firewall integration: CIS now includes builtin system wide buffer overflow protection
NEW! AV Heuristics: The AV engine now includes heuristics scanning capable of detecting unknown viruses generically
IMPROVED! Trusted software vendor list is expanded, capable of detecting thousands of applications generically without any signatures
IMPROVED! Revised AV engine: AV engine scanning and updating speed increased significantly
Known Issues:
- First boot after the installation might sometimes take longer than expected: This issue is being investigated
- The virus database in this version is a test database and is therefore different from the virus DB of the released version. This means detection rates are different
This is a BETA software and is NOT intended for the end users. Never install this version on a production PC.
Never install this version on a production PC = I am using a production PC as is maybe 90 per cent of home users so what’s the point?
Yesterday I installed the Beta; had to do a couple of reboots, then set up things again (as I had to let the installer uninstall the previous version).
Did a scan, set D+ to Clean PC for a while, then Safe Mode.
Most important: turned off Real Time Protection in the AV. Even if the AV part of CIS gets up to the level of other AVs I prefer Avast’s shields.
So far they are working well together (once Avast was set to ignore the 2 instances of heur.cav).