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Comodo Firewall
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Name: bmeek
Date: July 18, 2007 at 16:59:49 Pacific
Subject: Comodo FirewallOS: XP Home SP2CPU/Ram: 3.2 ghz / 2 gig ramManufacturer/Model: Home built |
Comment: I just got a friends computer free of over 200 nasties. His computer had a very outdated mcafee so I got rid of it. This person is very computer illiterate and I’m looking for a good free firewall and antivirus to install for him. I’m thinking about installing AVG for antivirus and Comodo for firewall. Will these 2 programs work without my friend having to do anything with them? I don’t want to have to spend the rest of my life trying to help him and clean his computer out every other day. If needed to know his computer is a Dell Dimension 3000 and it has xp home sp2 installed.
Brian
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Response Number 1
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Name: XpUser4Real
Date: July 18, 2007 at 17:03:55 Pacific
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Reply: I would install Avast
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-a...
instead of AVG...no maintenance needed at all. Set it to do a bootscan on reboot. I've been using that with Comodo for quite some time now....work GREAT together. I dropped AVG a long way back when it had up-dating problems and have never looked back. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.
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Response Number 2
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Name: bmeek
Date: July 18, 2007 at 17:15:45 Pacific
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Reply: Do you have to train Comodo like you do for Sygate and or Kaskersky? I'm looking for a firewall I can install and don't have to do anything to it. Brian
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Response Number 3
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Name: XpUser4Real
Date: July 18, 2007 at 17:17:14 Pacific
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Reply: it has a feature on it to scan all applications...They might on a few instances have to accept things like IE and Firefox...the only firewall that i know of that is the least cumbersome is the SP2 Firewall. Also on AVG you will have to set scheduled scans and up-dates which you won't have to do on Avast. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.
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Response Number 4
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Name: bmeek
Date: July 18, 2007 at 17:26:52 Pacific
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Reply: Ok, I will install avast and comodo and hopefully they will work for him without him calling me up every 5 minutes. Brian
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Response Number 6
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Name: bmeek
Date: July 18, 2007 at 19:02:09 Pacific
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Reply: Well I thought that computer was clean but Avast found a lot more viruses. The Hijack log shows nothing though. I used ewido (actually AVG anti spyware) and AVG to clean it then removed them and installed Avast and Comodo. Brian
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Response Number 7
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Name: XpUser4Real
Date: July 18, 2007 at 19:05:12 Pacific
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Reply: Thanks for posting back, hopefully all will be well now. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results as it will help others.
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Response Number 8
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Name: Jim Beau
Date: July 23, 2007 at 12:30:10 Pacific
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Reply: No surprise that Avast found stuff that AVG missed.
With Comodo the only time that I get prompts with my programns is if I install something new or update an existing program.
You can leave Component Monitor in learning mode.
HTH,
JB
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