Now that I have gone through the Comodo forum thread I recall that this is an issue that has been outstanding for some time with Comodo personal firewall and is NOT a new issue between avast and Comodo.
The new information that has come forward is that the “Skip loopback TCP connections” option in the Comodo firewall apparently overcomes the problems that have affected the users of the avast Webshield as reported in these forums. I cannot speak to what, if any, exposure selecting that option means to a Comodo firewall user.
I suspect that we will need to leave it to the technical folks of Alwil and Comodo working together to provide a final resolution.
I was just reading a thread on here… See: WebSheild bugs(?)
It looks like Alexo’s problem was prior to the release of new CFW. There was some mention on the Comodo thread of the firewall developers being out of the country!
Just read the Comodo Forum thread. My Avast 4.7.892 Home and CPF are running just fine together. Webshield is set to normal. Both programs are configured with CPF Automatic Install/Avast default settings and have changed nothing regarding Skip Loopback TCP Connections. Comodo Application Behavior Analysis enabled (default). I have never seen the odd screen in question nor the gibberish pages they are discussing on the CFW thread. Other security realtime is Sunbelt Counterspy and NOTHING else. I use Firefox as of late, but didn’t experience the said anomalies with IE6 either. FYI, I’m on ATT DSL with 2Wire Modem/router.
I just had a conversation with a developer from Comodo team. They put some efforts into this issue with avast! WebShield and as it seems to me now that the future update of Comodo PF (which should be out soon, probably ver. 2.4) will contain a fix! ;D
All of you who have spotted problems, please update as soon as the new version is available.
Thanks.
An beta-version of Comodo Firewall Release 2.4.0.x BETA will be released 16 november. It was first planned for a release yesterday, but it is now delayed to 16 november
Bluesman,
The 2.4.0.89 version of Comodo Firewall realease is in Traditional Chinese!
Bluesman, right about now I feel like sugar on the floor (-Etta James)!
-M
Yesterday evening 16 nov, i read on the Comodo Forum that there is coming
a Update from 2.3.4. to 2.3.6. And its for all. The update follow whitin a few weeks.
Thats what i read on the Comodo Forum.
The Avast suggestion that there is maybe a Bug ,is under searhing and if
Comodo something found,then coming the solution in version 2.3.6.
I personallity do count on it,that they tell the thrut.