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By: Sethubis

Sethubis — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:04:15 +0000

And i had the same problem as well this comodo antivirus did annoying stuff, luckily everything was decently back-up’t.

I will remove it from my home computer as well quite soon

By: reisende5_

reisende5_ — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 12:54:44 +0000

Count me among the growing number of users who had to re-install my O.S. because of Comodo AV.
I had the same hal.dll prob mentioned above.
I think Comodo AV is still alpha software, NOT beta. It should not yet be offered to the public.

By: gofry

gofry — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:24:25 +0000

I can only agree with GGekko. I Installed Comodo firewall (the newest version, whatever it is) and also Comodo Antivirus (also newest). After installing Antivirus, my Thunderbird stopped receiving emails and always kept asking for password. I didn’t find any setting in Comodo antivirus to make it work again except turning off email scanning. But the real troubles started with Firewall. After installing and rebooting, windows couldn’t start because of corrupted hal.dll. Actually it wasn’t corrupted, it wasn’t there at all! After copying hal.dll from windows CD I rebooted the computer but guess what?! Windows found many “new” hardware devices and started to install them. And the worst thing: all my .msc files were erased too. So now I can’t open services.msc, devmgmt.msc, compmgmt.msc etc. Seems that I will have to reinstall windows I decided to remove all comodo applications – after uninstalling and rebooting “tadaaa” – hal.dll missing again . This is not the behaviour I would expect from a “award winning” software.

By: GGekko

GGekko — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:11:29 +0000

LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP..This is a DANGEROUS product….At prodding of company’s CEO, I recently had to install a new hard drive and re-install XP and all personal configurations on laptop..Instead of reinstall McAfee, I installed the Comodo FREE firewall and anti-virus apps..3 days later my laptop couldn’t boot…and displayed a corruption on the hal.dll extenstion….4 hours into Dell’s phone support, it was determined that Comodo’s product was the root of the problem…and amazingly…this was confirmed by Comodo’s CEO—who sent a personal email acknowledging “this is a known problem with the Beta version”…and pointed me to the comdo user’s blog which identifies how to temporarily repair this problem….some of the strategies work others do not….the postings date back to July… this free software has apparently been in production for several months, yet the company continues to promote users to download it…knowing that it has the potential to corrupt hard drive files/extensions.

Have since had to wipe out the entire OS, and re-install everything from scratch..An entire day blown, files lost (no I didn’t automatically back up), and re-configure custom settings for 3 users..
Illustrating that ‘free’ is not only worth what you pay for it…but could prove extremely costly

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:06:24 +0000

The firewall seems in the first place an good piece of work, but when granted an application the firewall is comming back with an lot of pop-up would you allow, strange thing is that it sees that an application uses different ip’s for updating. Also ads, cookies, private information and scripting is not checking, with thi s firewall advertisements, banners and flash is growing enormous so no ad-blocker, no privacy control. none intrusion detection likes Kerio. The pc is running in stealth mode it claims that is has passed all leaktest i am in doubt the firewall is leaking private information and has no privacyfunctions. Spyware is simple slipping trough, when you run this firewall with Prevx Intrusion protection then you have strong weapon but in mine opinion every good firewall must have privacy protection.
I will this firewall recommend because it works good and need further developed.