Comodo

[muskrat26]

Firstly a big thank you to those who answered questions and gave help and advice regarding Comodo - which can be found on my removing N thread.

[muskrat26]

I am currently keeping the av part of the program while I try to understand avast before downloading it.

Regarding the Comodo itself. I find the firewall proving to be excellent. I do wish I received more warnings as I have to go into the program to see quite what C has picked up and quarantined, and it seems to be rather a lot! That part is done silently, I am not talking about the message that pops up with new programs when it asks me permission.

I downloaded Eicar and tried to send it from one email addy to the other and Comodo simply quarantined it. The download saved to desktop it refuses to even open, so the only way I could check the antivirus would be to switch off the firewall - and this I am not prepared to do.

In the habit of sending received files, folders,documents and downloads to desktop I am able to right click on the mouse and opt to scan with Comodo and the scan is quick (I think fractionally quicker than AVG)

I will now probably risk it and switch off the C firewall and then send myself Eicar, see if it stops this as a zipped file and see if it stops it again as an opened file.

(I am not discounting using this in preference to other av's but I am simply testing it as best I can to share the findings with CIT)
I'll also do a google search regarding the C's antivirus and read what other people have to say.

In seven days time I may well change to a tried and tested alternative, right now I am checking this program out.

[ken]

I know Hotmail wont allow you to send or receive an .exe file Von and it has to be zipped. How Comodo behaves towards them, I've no idea.

KC

[computing50yrs]

If I want to send an .exe file I just change the file extension by renaming from .exe to .bat and send it telling the recipient to rename the file back to .exe. Its always worked for me and saves zipping it up

[muskrat26]

I'll try that renaming a file suggestion. Thank you both.