Please restrict your comments to DACS (Distributed and Collaborative Scanning).
Or try http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=289508 for less raving and more information. Self aggrandization is just a way of life.
Sounds like another white elephant but it appears to be sugar coated with the Comodo flavor so it must be good. 
Thank you for the link, sded. TU I do use CIS 2011 for zero day protection, and have noticed a trend of Comodo using users as bots. Not good, IMO.
Seems an on demand & cloud system.
The only unknown thing for me is
If there is an unknown file in your computer then this gets sent to DACS community, the community scans it with their anti virus products and send the result back to you! Of course all this is done automatically
The community scans… You mean… Will I download a file and locally scan, returning (uploading) the results to the community?
@ Tech, Melih stated that DACS is more like P2P rather than cloud-based. Maybe this might help to understand the concept better. It seems that only the contributors scan the files. Normal CIS users just send the unknown files. Melih mentioned a “strict” qualification process in order to become a contributor, because they don’t need any more.
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Even though this is only an on demand system, isn’t the sending of the file to all of the supporters repeated for each user who sees the unknown file as it evolves? And doesn’t the user finding it in the first place require that he do regular on-demand scans? Since it is not an on access item, utility seems a bit limited. The lack of a Prevx-like data center seems a real disadvantage.
I’m not sure whether its on-demand or on-access… ??? This post by Melih in one of the threads, makes it seem like DACS is on-access and automatic.
Edit: Pretty sure its on-access now. Post
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Strict? Is it only that the computer will be “available” for them to scan? I mean, download file, scan, upload results?
The smaller network, the more files you need to scan locally to upload the results…
This is what Melih said in his post:
There is a very strict qualification process for the contributors. Because we want to make sure what is fed to the community is nothing but the best about the scan results. We don't want some "upset" people/companies to come be a contributor and start feeding false results. And also there really isn't a need for anymore than a handful number of people which we already have got..[url=http://forums.comodo.com/melihs-corner-ceo-talkdiscussionsblog/anti-virus-companies-are-protection-criminals-not-anymore-thanks-to-dacs-t66825.0.html;msg470188#msg470188]Source[/url]
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In the Wilders thread, Lord Raiden definitely said it was an on demand scanner although the text has been massaged a few times. Current quote is “DACS does not provide real time protection so it can not replace any AV”. He has been asking questions over at the Comodo forum and sometimes getting vague answers, but this one seems solid. Context was about the size and bandwidth of an on access network like this that doesn’t go through a data center-even Prevx has a whole lot of dedicated equipment. Seems like there is confusion at all levels though. Another quote is “Will be added to Comodo Internet Security in future versions but first will be avaliable on-demand as a standalone app” but questions about that don’t seem to be answered-it is a much bigger deal.
Wait one month, let’s the things calm down and we’ll see what it is.
Right now, hype hype hype…
restrict our comments to “DACS” or whatever the thing is called and means ? no way. That’s too typical from Comodo to “sell” or attempt to sell empty stuff, they’ve been at that a few times already, so… anyway I already commented on that here:
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=68142.msg573288#msg573288
ps: if you guys over there at Comodo’s don’t want to hear comments that you don’t like, you don’t have to come post about your internal cooking here. That’s not interesting, but I admit to have fun ;D
@Logos: You might want to quote that post of yours since it’s in the Café… Not everybody has access to that. ;D
oh okay didn’t realize that lol
DACS ? Should be SSFOA(stealing signatures from other AV’s)… ;D That’s theft imho and also quite despicable as logos puts it…
Like
IObit had stolen Malwarebytes’ database and incorporated it into their software.???
http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=33217
Yes it’s quite obvious that they are incapable of producing a decent AV themselves so they resort to another method, stealing detections from other AV’s…
End user has AV xx installed on his system and wishes to participate in DACS for the good of the community. They will install a plugin that allows communication with DACS (through EasyVPN).Now when a Comodo user scans a file that is unknown, DACS will send this file to the participants with various AV’s installed. Those AV’s will scan the file, and the result is sent back to DACS. DACS in turn will gather results from all of the supported AV’s.
quoted from here:
I don’t care how Melih(he is a bit crazy if you ask me) tries to justify this, it’s stealing from others and that’s that. Even if it’s somehow legal(which i doubt), it’s at the very least completely unethical.
They’re sharing the infected files (malicious code) not the definitions.
The malicious code copyright is difficult to defend…
If you want to disagree, do it reasonably.
unless the participants found a way to scan files without using the original AV software technologies, and centralize the results in DACS, a Comodo labeled product right?
Sounds like Comodo may have acquired Immunet? 
(I don’t care if there are differences or not, it’s the same concept)
is that more reasonable?
End user has AV xx installed on his system and wishes to participate in DACS for the good of the community. They will install a plugin that allows communication with DACS (through EasyVPN).Now when a Comodo user scans a file that is unknown, DACS will send this file to the participants with various AV’s installed. Those AV’s will scan the file, and the result is sent back to DACS. DACS in turn will gather results from all of the supported AV’s.
… now it would get funny if all participants were using Comodo AV ;D … which is very likely to happen. I mean for instance would you expect me as an Avast user to participate in a Comodo program? for the safety of mankind may be? no freakin’ way get a life Comodo 