Comodo Firewall v4

Craig321 · 13 Jun 2010 at 15:10

Hi

I've been using Comodo for years now, and am currently on v3.1 which has been running very well. Are there any significant improvements in v4? Are there any performance enhancements?

I'm open to suggestions if there's anything out there that's better, or if I should be sticking to v3.1.

I would just stick with the firewall in Windows 7, but I want control over every program that goes in & out.

Thanks,
Craig.

Yjani · 13 Jun 2010 at 15:15

Been with V.3 myself for a while too, and have really no complaints at all. See no reason for a change myself unless they stop doing updates of course.

Craig321 · 13 Jun 2010 at 15:18

Just read that v3.5 introduced 'dramatic' performance improvements with a new network stack using the new Vista technology, so it's tempting to upgrade.

I just hope v4 isn't starting to fill up with crap.

Ice Globe · 13 Jun 2010 at 15:50

I recently changed over to v4 having wondered whether I really needed to upgrade as I was happy with v3.

Took the plunge only to find v4 wouldn't install! Having properly removed v3 with CCleaner, it still wouldn't install until I downloaded a batch file from the Comodo forums which wiped out some files/registry keys which were left behind.

All working now though, although a bit frustrating that I have to re-allow permissions to all my applications.

Craig321 · 13 Jun 2010 at 17:18

Ice Globe said:
I recently changed over to v4 having wondered whether I really needed to upgrade as I was happy with v3.

Took the plunge only to find v4 wouldn't install! Having properly removed v3 with CCleaner, it still wouldn't install until I downloaded a batch file from the Comodo forums which wiped out some files/registry keys which were left behind.

All working now though, although a bit frustrating that I have to re-allow permissions to all my applications.

Have you noticed any performance improvements or any difference in v4?

Ice Globe · 13 Jun 2010 at 19:55

Craig321 said:
Have you noticed any performance improvements or any difference in v4?

Haven't noticed any differences in particular.

Judging by the release notes, perhaps some differences and improvements with Defence+ and this new sandbox feature but I don't tend to run Defence+.

Gamer4Life · 14 Jun 2010 at 04:03

Yeah still running v3.x myself. Didn't upgrade to v4 because I didn't see any need to. Also noticed that the alerts for blocked IP's were not fully addressed yet.

Phil2008 · 14 Jun 2010 at 12:05

I upgraded to v4 a few days ago cos it told me todo so, I never uninstalled v3 cos the install of v4 uninstalled v3 for me and I was able to import my block settings ect from v3. I havent noticed any diff from v3 tho.

sturmtruppe · 14 Jun 2010 at 21:53

i think v3 settings file messes up the optimizations made in v4 to the rules and stuff.

currently using v4.1 and had no popups at all.

Craig321 · 14 Jun 2010 at 22:03

Ice Globe said:
Haven't noticed any differences in particular.

Judging by the release notes, perhaps some differences and improvements with Defence+ and this new sandbox feature but I don't tend to run Defence+.

Yeah, a lot of their changes are made to Defence+. Just wondering if I'm missing out on the networking improvements made when the new network stacks etc. were introduced in v3.8.

I got an update for my installed v3.1 yesterday. I wonder if they included those network improvements in v3 patches at some point.

Phil2008 · 15 Jun 2010 at 02:32

sturmtruppe said:
i think v3 settings file messes up the optimizations made in v4 to the rules and stuff.

currently using v4.1 and had no popups at all.

Ive imported my settings from v3, so I shouldn't have any popups

knowledge123 · 15 Jun 2010 at 03:56

I do like v4, been running it for a while, the latest update fixed a few things that the initial v4 had wrong. I only use simple block/allow rules for the firewall, and it works fine, but there is the option to do more advanced stuff if you want to.
I could import my old v3 settings if I had wanted to, but I decided not to. You do have to select the v3 settings manually if you want to use them, it won't select it automatically for you.