TSGL: Comodo Firewall

[H Davis]

Those of you that get the Windows Secrets Newsletter will see this 
there. I found it a little scary. I use the free version of Zone Alarm, 
v 6.5.737.0, and it failed all 3 of the Comodo Parent Injection Leak Tests.

Each test is described but I have no way to judge if these represent 
real threats or are just good advertising on the part of Comodo. I did 
read an article some time ago that made the point that firewalls that 
claim to stop outgoing "non-authorized" traffic aren't worth anything 
because any competent hacker could write code that would let him use the 
facilities of a legitimate program (browser) that had been given 
permission by the user to pass data through the firewall. That is what 
each of these tests seem to do.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? Anyone using Comodo, especially with a 
local network?

A couple of after thoughts:

If the test data contains spaces not all of it is transmitted to the 
Comodo site in test 2 and there might be a couple of web page accesses 
with parts of the data as page names if you use Firefox.

Notice that tests 1 & 3 use IE but test 2 uses your default browser 
which in my case was FF.

I also tried to use the HackerGuardian free scan but after an incredibly 
long sign up process to get my free account it rejected the ID and 
Password I had just entered a minute ago to establish the account. No 
joy there.

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H Davis   hdavis1 at gmail.com