COMODO FIREWALL CRUCIFIED!

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:slight_smile:http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=177062&page=2
and about security and privacy leaks with Comodo Firewall,
[url]http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=181922]http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=177062&page=2
and about security and privacy leaks with Comodo Firewall,
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=181922
May be the Avast users should rely on PC Tools free FIREWALL after all? :-X

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People, from time to time, don’t know why, try to bash security companies that release free products. People don’t understand how can a company survive giving one product by free to home users. This is an endless story.
If you don’t trust your security company. Change it.
You can trust Alwil and Comodo companies imho.

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You can trust Alwil and Comodo
2nd vote on that and lots of others here on this forum will say the same ;)
should rely on PC Tools free FIREWALL
no thank you-from the latest leak test results it rates VERY POOR while comodo rated ""EXCELLENT""

http://i9.tinypic.com/540ip7s.jpg

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The caps lock key appears to be stuck on your keyboard whilst writing newspaper style headlines for Topic Titles, there is no need to shout.

Many forum users used to use PC Tools and switched to comodo and this was because of security issues not one of perceived privacy issues.

Personally I would have waited until the conclusion of the topics you gave (broken) links to before creating the newspaper headlines.

Edit: You ought to check out this topic as we get some information/answers direct from the horses mouth so to speak, Melih the owner/main man I believe.
http://forums.comodo.com/help/phoning_home-t11317.0.html
also http://forums.comodo.com/feedbackcommentsannouncementsnews/what_do_you_think_about_this-t11280.0.html

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My FUD alarm is going off! ::slight_smile:

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What’s FUD? ???

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Fear Uncertainty and Doubt

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) is a sales or marketing strategy of disseminating negative (and vague) information on a competitor's product. The term originated to describe disinformation tactics in the computer hardware industry and has since been used more broadly. FUD is a manifestation of the appeal to fear.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C_uncertainty_and_doubt

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Thanks Frank. Fully agree: marketing strategy of disseminating negative (and vague) information on a competitor’s product.

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Yeah a tactic MSFT pioneered ::slight_smile:

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Well, for all of this hype about Comodo Firewall it sure is just a simple answer. If you don’t trust it, don’t use it. There are other choices for any of us to go to. Whether you pay for one or choose a free one is entirely up to your choices. :slight_smile:

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http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=181689

http://pure-essence.net/2004/02/25/theplanetcom-referral-spam/

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I didn’t understand the relationship of these links with this topic… can you show me? Thanks.

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BoClean is a comodo product. BoClean calls out to theplanet.com.

It appears comodo fw, comodo boclean & theplanet.com are “dirty”.

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I see…
But is this real or just a hoax or FUD as posted before?
What is ‘call’ in this situation? Is Comodo a spyware? ???

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Tech,

When you make a telephone call you voice is transmitted over the phone lines.

So when comodo “calls” out it transmits out data.

It appears it is spyware.

If it is indeed spyware then cpf isn’t free, your surfing pays for it.

There is a link to PC Tools Fw in my sig below for you to enjoy safe, free surfing.

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It’s difficult to believe…

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If you continue reading the topic regarding about Comodo BOClean, you’ll also find a reply from Kevin McAleavey who’s the Security Expert there. ( click here )

or here's the quote from his post:
Greetings! That will be the autoupdate itself doing that, checking to see if there's a new database update for BOClean. Whilst the PSC BOClean connected with our own servers at logical.net, with the large volume of BOCleans out there now, logical.net just wasn't up to the task of handling all those connections without problems. COMODO is using servers at "theplanet.com" for the ftp download for BOClean and what's going on is a standard "passive FTP" connection there to do a file list to see if what is there is newer than what you have already and if so, it will download and install it. But that's all that's going on there.

If it’s a concern, you can go into BOClean’s configuration screen and turn off the autoupdate and do them manually, but it will go to that very same place now for the manual update. Good move on the 4.24 though … whilst the 4.23 release had a lot of problems, the 4.24 release solves a lot of problems that 4.22 had and is by far the best one ever. And as we pass 32,000 unique items, we NEED to draw the curtain and end support for the 4.22 release in the next few days as it’s run out of room to go much past that. In all sincerity though, 4.24 is far superior to 4.22 and there’s nothing funny going on. Like all previous versions of BOClean, coded it all with my own two hands, so I still know exactly where all the bones are buried.

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A lot of sites ‘certify’ Comodo as being spyware free…

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Comodo_Firewall_Pro/1132729513/1
http://www.download.com/Comodo-Firewall-Pro/3000-10435_4-10633448.html
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/comodofirewall.html
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Comodo_Personal_Firewall_d5033.html

So… are they all wrong?

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The first link it would appear that this is BOClean auto updates at work
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1051096&postcount=7

Greetings! That will be the autoupdate itself doing that, checking to see if there's a new database update for BOClean. Whilst the PSC BOClean connected with our own servers at logical.net, with the large volume of BOCleans out there now, logical.net just wasn't up to the task of handling all those connections without problems. COMODO is using servers at "theplanet.com" for the ftp download for BOClean and what's going on is a standard "passive FTP" connection there to do a file list to see if what is there is newer than what you have already and if so, it will download and install it. But that's all that's going on there.

I suggest you read the whole topic (not just my link and quote) where the reason for that is I think clearly explained.

It too can’t see why the second link is in there as aside from BOClean using some servers on theplanet.com domain it has no control over it and any referral spam. Which has absolutely nothing to do with comodo.

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Sounds like a good cover-up. Google “theplanet.com”, it doesn’t look like theplanet.com is a good choice, except if you’re into malware.