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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Comodo Firewall
From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2017 21:28:40 +0100
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> On 04 Feb 2017, at 17:59, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>     Comodo has proven to be one of the worst software experiences that I can 
> recall.  It pretty much brought all usage to a crawl, and would not let me 
> uninstall it readily.  I had to go into SAFE MODE, then launch WinPatrol 
> manually.  That let me remove it from the startup queue.  The I restarted and 
> removed it.  Total time to remove it was close to two hours.
> 
>     This has been a terrible experience, and all that I wanted was a simple 
> piece of software that would:
> 
> 1.   Detect incoming and outgoing internet connections.
> 
> 2.   Detect the volume of those connections.
> 
> 3.   Provide a means for blocking both incoming and outgoing connections.
> 
>     In short, a bidirectional firewall, similar to Little Snitch.  You would 
> think that such a thing would be readily available and easily implemented, 
> but the current mentality of programmers is that all users have infinite 
> speed, infinite hard drive capacity, and infinite patience.
> 
>     I'm going to take a serious look at Outpost Firewall as it advertises 
> having the functions I'm interested in.
> 
>> 
>>    After a lot of time, I finally have the Comodo Firewall installed in 
>> laptop #2.  I had some trouble installing it in laptop #1, but it was not 
>> the fault of the software, just operator error.  I uninstalled it from there 
>> for the time being.
>> 
>>    Looking at the list of TCP connections, I'm seeing something that's a 
>> bit alarming.  When I open a new page, the service host (SVCHOST) opens a 
>> connection to 1e100.net, which is a Google-owned domain name used to 
>> identify 
>> the servers in their network.  
>> 
> 
> 
> Chris
> 
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro 
>     - Hunter S. Thompson
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