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Posted by louise on March 11, 2007, 12:50 am
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>> Win XP Pro, SP2 with all critical updates, NOD32, SuperAnti-Spyware
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>> After using Sygate for several years, I decided I had to update to a
>> firewall that is being supported and maintained - not the case for
>> Sygate after Symantec bought them.
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>> Wanting more precision, and after extensive discussion on this ng, I
>> installed Comodo.
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>> First WinFaxPro got stuck in semi-receive mode and froze whenever I
>> tried to get out of the mess. No amount of rebooting fixed it.
>> Knowing this was a finicky and old program, I uninstalled and
>> reinstalled it. Even though it was clearly "allowed" by Comodo, it
>> froze again and again in various states.
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>> But it gets worse..... I've been using Outlook, several different
>> profiles, with a spam catcher called SpamBully for several years. It
>> has been very efficient. Suddenly, after Comodo, one of my profiles
>> kept freezing and it became clear that the profile itself had been
>> corrupted. Removing Spam Bully didn't fix it.
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>> I should note that after every software uninstall and reinstall, I
>> cleaned the registry with JV16 so I don't think the problems exhibited
>> by Comodo are the result of leftover program code.
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>> Well, I finally uninstalled Comodo (registry included), uninstalled
>> and again reinstalled Winfax Pro. I then had to delete the damaged
>> Outlook profile and create a new one. With Comodo out of the picture,
>> Outlook and SpamBully again worked happily together once Outlook had a
>> new profile to replace the damaged one.
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>> So I have moved on to the PCTools firewall. It installed easily and
>> is playing very well with all the programs that were negatively
>> effected by Comodo. The only thing I've encountered that I don't like
>> is that PC Tools Firewall gives you the option to allow or disallow,
>> but it doesn't give you the option to allow just this one time. I
>> think this is a serious flaw.
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>> But after the last several hours of tracking down the problems and
>> repairing the damage to files, I plan to happily stay with PC Tools.
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>> Louise
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> Sorry you had problems with Comodo. FYI, regarding the option to "allow
> once" when the firewall intercepts a connection attempt, this is
> available in ZoneAlarm - you can click "Yes", but the choice will not be
> remembered if you don't put a check in the box to save the setting.
> ZoneAlarm also distinguishes between allowing an application internet
> access Vs allowing it to function as a server. I don't think PC Tools
> Firewall Plus currently makes that distinction.
Thanks for the info. PcTools sounds like it has a long way
to go before it's really ready for prime time.
Things went from bad to worse and I discovered that several
other utilities were malfunctioning - probably really from
Comodo. Eventually, while trying to fix each thing, the
system gave up and suddenly couldn't boot into windows.
One more rave for Ghost! I restored the drive image from
one week ago and as a result, I was back with Sygate. I
think for now I'm going to stay with Sygate. This fiasco
has taken me several hours (I even missed a movie we'd
bought tickets for), and it is a testament to the addage:
if it ain't broke.......
How important do you think a software filewall really is if
you keep Windows updated, use an NAT router, run NOD32 and
SuperAntiSpyware. Perhaps I'm into overkill anyway. I'm
certainly into exhaustion :-)
Louise
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