On Saturday I reviewed Comodo’s new Internet Security suite (version 3.8). The review went a bit long, but lets face it, CIS 3.8 is a huge suite (and that’s a good thing). The Comodo team made numerous enhancements to version 3.5 and released 3.8 on Feb 12th.
So, if you’re looking for an all-in-one security suite (for free!) then give Comodo a shot, because no other free security suite compares to the power, quality and support of Comodo Internet Security!
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDBjsiKAYaA
Below is a quote from the Comodo 3.8 release notes:
- FIXED! Applications do not run when CIS is installed in Vista 64
- FIXED! BSOD in Windows XP 64 when NWLink protocol is installed
- FIXED! Defense+ conflicts with certain security applications
- FIXED! Firewall does not filter traffic on some dialup/adsl adapters
- FIXED! AV crashes while scanning certain files
- FIXED! AV Exclusions do not work
- IMPROVED! File submission engine has been redesigned
Version 3.8.64739.471 : 19th Feb, 2009
- FIXED! AV engine crashes while scanning some files
- FIXED! Firewall blocks all the traffic in some vista PCs when checksum verification is enabled
- FIXED! Some applications consume 100% CPU while CIS is installed
Version 3.8.64263.468 : 12th Feb, 2009
- NEW! COMODO Threatcast – COMODO’s community based alerts statistics
- NEW! Native Vista Firewall – Improved Firewall with Windows Vista enhancements
- NEW! Native Vista HIPS – Improved HIPS compatible with Windows Vista enhancements
- NEW! Buffer Overflow Prevention – Defense+ can now detect and prevent one of the most common attacks used by attackers: shellcode injection
- NEW! Antivirus Heuristics: The Antivirus engine now includes heuristics scanning capabilities
- NEW! Proxy server settings for AV and program updates
- 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
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i couldn’t tell if you ran the scan with high heuristics?
As far as i could see, he installed and tested Comodo with default settings…
But then again, i cant remember, if heuristics is on high by default..
EDIT: it NOT on HIGH by default… Its on LOW..
You can check there forum. ”
What are the defaults for “COMODO – Internet Security”
Yup, they were on low. But if it makes ya feel better I put them on high tonight and the results were exactly the same.
It’s just packer detection, so it doesn’t make much difference. It’s still useless to whatever you set it.
Until they add actual heuristics…
what is packer detection
Packer detection means when something is detected just because it’s packed with a specific PE packer.
Like MEW or Armadillo (and many others).
What is that supposed to do
like all virsesare all packed differnty
They’re not. They are just using either modified packers or very complex packers/protectors like Themida and Armadillo.
Each of these are either too complex to dissasemble/unpack or they just fail to unpack because they are modified or custom made.
I think you should use ONLY the anti-virus to clean the PC (so we can see what is left) and then do the “manual” stuff with the Defense + tool.
You also should have scanned in “Safe Mode”.
Anyway another good review, (image/sound are awesome for a Youtube video)…
Altough I may say that the “Ad-aware” review that follows have a VERY LOW SOUND. In my system I could not hear your voice even with 100% volume.
Yeah, the stuff you manually block and delete in CIS isn’t exactly fair if you compare to others. The first reviews you made were made from an user perspective. So what it was detected, it was detected (and hopefully removed).
But since you remove half the stuff by hand, it’s not really easy to evaluate or compare on or another. But from what i’ve seen CIS was struggling to clean lots of junk and it missed lots of stuff too. No safe-mode test like before either
CIS is ok and will get better in v3.9 and 4.x but for now it’s really struggling to even detect stuff. Defense+ is simply usless and annoying for average users. Hell, it’s annoying even for me and i’m far from novice user.
Thats why i’m hopelessly waiting for them to turn Defense+ HIPS into behavior detection system and finally implement true heuristics.
first mistake in testing comes from lying to CIS, when malwarekilla said His PC is clean in installation procedure CIS becomes blind to behaviors of any kind, (d+ turned itself in “training mode” in which remembers all rogue beh. like trusted) after that everything goes wrong…
also While testing ESET 4.0, I cant understand why malwarekilla didnt disabled realtime detection while setting up his customized set up, instead we watched all kind of popups and movie was endless painful experience for him and us
at the end VIVA to CIS and D+,:)