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iroc9555

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February 24th, 2009 06:00

Comodo incompatibility issues

It seems that Comodo found the bug in V. 3.8.64739.471 that was causing users to drop their antispyware apps, specifically Ad-Aware and Spy Sweeper, or revert to Comodo old version 3.5. According to Egemen, Comodo´administrator, in reply # 55, Comodo will release a new update this week to fix the problem. I hope.

https://forums.comodo.com/firewall_help/comodo_firewall_and_spysweeper_problems-t34906.0.html

https://forums.comodo.com/firewall_help/updated_comodo_firewall_on_x64-t34829.45.html

So if any of you updated to 3.8 and thought your PC was infected, it was probably an incompatibility issue due to CIS and your antispyware.

 

Hope it helps

joe53

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March 2nd, 2009 16:00

Hernan, I am grateful for your input. This board needs more contributors.

As for the topic of incompatabilities, it amazes me that all of my resident defenses play so well together:
Nod32 v2.7
BOClean v4.27
CIS v3.8.x
Windows Defender v1.1x
WinPatrol Plus v15.9.x

Not to mention all my on-demand, browser, and passive defenses, as well:
a-squared anti-malware v4.x
MBAM v1.34
SAS v4.x
SpywareBlaster v4.1
Spybot S&D v1.6.2
HostsMan v3.1.55 (MVPS Hosts file)
Web of Trust (WOT) v9.x
OpenDNS
ERUNT (registry backup)

iroc9555

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March 3rd, 2009 12:00

  • Thank you Joe and you are welcome.

What has worked for me on this system:

Residents

  • McAfee Security Center 8. until license expired. Now I have Avast 4.8 Home Ed. (free).
  • Comodo Firewall Protection with maximum Proactive Defence + 3.5. (free)
  • Spy Sweeper 6.1 ( just spyware. Paid ).
  • Win Patrol Plus 15.9. ( One payment $ 19.99, for life)
  • WOT ( used to have McAfee Site Advisor, and worked well but I am trying WOT now, to see how it is ).

 

On demand scanners and immunization ( passive defenses )

  • Ad Aware ( used a lot but dropped it like a year ago, really did not do much for me )
  • MBAM 1.34 (free)
  • SAS pro 4 -Life Time Subscription- Lucky me ( real time protection off )( I switched SS for SAS with protection on, to try CFP 3.8. No visible incompatibility issues, but my CPU and RAM usage went up, not for much but enough to know that something was not right, IMHO, I do not think SAS is more demanding on a system than SS ).
  • SpywareBlaster 4.1
  • Spybot S&D (  No Tea Timer, too difficult for my Father & Sister. 1.6 did not do so well with McAfee firewall so I dropped it. I might install it again now that I am running Avast ).
  • HijackThis 2.0.2

 

I have tried Host files protection but here the Internet service is so slow that sometime is annoying to wait for the list to be checked when one changes from one web page to another, so I hope that SS, Win Patrol, Avast, and WOT will do their job and protect my PC and my local host, anyway I have a backup just in case.

Once a month or If I felt paranoid I run an ONLine scanner to be sure, One Live Care, BitDefender, or Kaspersky have gotten me out of doubt. I have also used "Virus Total" to check a file  to make sure it is OK. Also once a month clean my PC ( not with soap and watter, mind you ), check disk for errors, and defrag. And above all, back up all my important folders and files.

This is what I tell most of my friends and family to do, but unfortunately they do not have time or are too lazy to do it, so when something goes wrong with their PCs, I end up one weekend at their home doing it for them. At least I get a free dinner.:emotion-5:

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