I upgraded to new version 6 free edition yesterday.
It disabled my free edition of the Comodo firewall.
I got that running again by means of a clean reinstall of Comodo.
When I booted this am…Comodo was disabled again.
Have reverted back to Avast free version 5.1.889 and Comodo is behaving as it should again.
Will stick with 5.1.889 until it becomes unsupported and will then change to another AV prog.
That’s weird… ??? didn’t notice any trouble of that kind on my 3 pc with CFW and avast… what is your CFW version ?
Thank you for your response.
Using version 3.0.25.378 firewall only…Defense+ is disabled.
Considering CIS is at 5.3.174622.1216 and you version was released on 30th May, 2008 - may I suggest to upgrade finally ??? :o
As far as I can see, my version is the latest for a stand alone firewall. I don’t want a CIS.
You can install a standalone firewall just fine w/ CIS installer - read the documentation. You won’t get any support for completely obsolete products from Comodo and noone at Avast is going to bother with compatibility issues either, I’m afraid.
You can choose only to install the FW and D+…
asyn
You don’t need to install CIS . Comodo Firewall v5 is here (the first of the list) :
http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/free-download.html
if you don’t want Defense + nor the sandbox, just disable them and clear the Trusted Vendor List and put the FW in Custom settings mode…
It’s the same product/installer - will download CIS. Their website sucks bigtime and confuses the hell out of users.
Confirm this.
asyn
Thank you all for your comments, advice and pointers.
Please bear with me…at 89 years old I need some time to understand all this.
Will be back at some point to update on progress.
+1
Just a thought - is comodo FW really not working, or is it just that windows security centre says it isn’t?
(I have had a problem in the last couple of days with windows reporting that comodo FW isn’t running - but when I check comodo it is actually fine (a reboot has solved this for me so far).
yeah neither the free version of Avast nor the paid ones have the ability to disable any firewall. So it must just be “Action center” messing around as usual.
If two Antivirus are in realtime protection that may always a problem to run which is in higher priority. Simply select only firewall in Comodo, then make a flexible in your system.
The OP already said he is only using comodo FW
I already tried v5.0 of Comodo, with WinXP SP3, and found it easy to use and custom-install with just the firewall only.
I tried Comodo just the firewall …TOTALLY HATED IT!! I had so many errors on my comp in my Event viewer, and the longer and harder I tried things just got worse…Comodo in my opinion is probably the best out there, but it definately blocks everything on your computer…before you know it half my applications weren’t running, the computer got slower everytime I rebooted and every day…If I kept it longer I would probably have crashed the System…I have been without it now for about 6 months and not even 1 error in my event viewer for the last 6 months…Just my oinion if anyone cares…
Never had a problem with comodo FW. Comodo D+ HIPS can certainly block your applications from running, but you can disable it. The latest version seems a lot quieter (I guess it has a better whitelist than it used to).
So far since updating to SP1 on my Windows 7 Pro x64 machine a few days ago and updating to Avast 6 I have had issues with several firewalls. PC Tools Firewall 7 had either an issue with Avast or SP1 or likely both, could not connect over TCP, web browsing was dead, downloads would freeze. It worked fine pre SP1.
I tried Privatefirewall(the latest version), it would connect fine but for some reason on reboot I could not click on anything in it’s GUI to make changes.
I tried for the hell of it even though I hate it Comodo 5.3(whatever the latest version is)and I could not connect over TCP with the Avast web shield enabled. Web browsing was dead. I had all of Comodo’s defense garbage disabled.
Now i’m using Online Armor Free 4.5.1.431 and knock on wood nothing is F’d up…yet. I disabled all of it’s HIPS features, don’t need it, straight firewall. By the way I usually test software in a VM but currently I only have XP loaded up in one which isn’t a good way of testing issues with software within Windows 7 obviously. So I would try a firewall in Windows 7, and then restore to a clean image if it didn’t work. So it wasn’t like I had residue files hanging out from other firewalls screwing things up.
So in the end, it seems Avast 6’s web shield is having issues with certain firewalls or vice versa. Some other firewalls are having issues with Windows 7 SP1.