[Kenny94]

I see now! Comodo are partners with iQBio Inc and they sell other products...

[JohnWill]

They are also advertising an overpriced FAX service on their site.

[linskyjack]

Originally Posted by JohnWill

The products look interesting, but I hate the fact that want an email address for every thing there...

John, thats why you need a gmail account that you can use for nuisances. I have about 90 to send if you don't already have one.

[bearbottoms]

Comodo gets shot down:

http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/05/...aadgdfdddh_ah/

Imagine this: A reputable security company releases an eternally-free, “enterprise-class,” anti-malware engine that doesn’t waste CPU cycles, or otherwise molest your machine. Windows users rejoice that they can surf without fear of PTM (Porn-Transmitted Malware), and they line up to buy the company’s other, for-cash, products. A national holiday is named in honor of the “firm that saved the internet.”

That’s the dream that Comodo CEO Melih Abdulhayoglu is trying to fulfill with Comodo Anti-Virus V1.0, a free anti-malware offering designed to slot-in with Comodo’s other gratis goods, like VerificationEngine, Comodo Personal Firewall and iVault.

But something happened on the way to National Comodo Day.

A row is brewing over Comodo’s bundling of software called LaunchPad with Comodo Anti-Virus and their other freebies. Some allege that LaunchPad is impossible-to-uninstall adware, or worse.

On the alt.comp.freeware news group, Alan Leghart rails:

As has been disussed in public forums, the Launch Pad is add-on software used as a marketing vehicle for other Comodo products and services. There is no documentation or mention of the add on software at Comodo’s web site. As well, there is no method to un-install the software without removing the desired application…Comodo’s overall image of trustworthiness is degraded by tactics formerly reserved to scam artists. Upon first evaluation, I cautioned other admins that lack of a paid version available to Comodo customers indicated future use as an advertising gimmick.

…I’m getting that prickly feeling on the back of my neck. I’m trusting my most sensitive passwords and credit cards to a company who starts bundling and crippling it’s “free” products in order to present advertising information multiple times per day.

Perhaps Comodo should call this “sponsored” software instead of free. Disabling the advertising cripples the desired application. Sounds pretty obvious to me.

[bearbottoms]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

John, thats why you need a gmail account that you can use for nuisances. I have about 90 to send if you don't already have one.

I want one

[bearbottoms]

Originally Posted by JohnWill

They are also advertising an overpriced FAX service on their site.

You are very perceptive and I'm learning to pay close attention to your posts. This one you made caused me to dig a bit deeper into this Comodo "looks like a great thingy" deal. Is this a sixth sense or has Einstein truely been left behind

I'm being serious in a humorous sort of way.

[WhitPhil]

bearbottms

When you installed and ran Comodo, your Firewall didn't light up with LaunchPad trying to connect to the net?

[JohnWill]

Well, I must admit, I downloaded the backup application, but I have it sitting there until I get around to checking them out. Now, it seems you've saved me the trouble. I'm deleting it as I type with my other hand.

Oh yes, I used my Yahoo email account for my registration.

Is this a great place or what? You know someone's always got your back just when you think of stepping off the curb in front of a speeding car.

[bearbottoms]

Originally Posted by WhitPhil

bearbottms

When you installed and ran Comodo, your Firewall didn't light up with LaunchPad trying to connect to the net?

I never got that far...I was still evaluating whether I should download and try it. I just ran across it, it sounded too good to be true...well after the fact it did....it sounded great. I posted here to see if anyone had any prior knowledge of it.

John Will's sixth sense made me become wary...then I found the bombshell.

[wacor]

just and observation

anything that sounds too good to be true usually is too good to be true.

not much comes free without a price to pay in one way or another

[wacor]

guess we were typing at the same time Bearbottom

your fingers are faster

[WhitPhil]

Originally Posted by bearbottoms

I never got that far...I was still evaluating whether I should download and try it

My bad read, I guess. From the title of the thread and your first post, I got the impression that you were running it.

[bearbottoms]

Originally Posted by WhitPhil

My bad read, I guess. From the title of the thread and your first post, I got the impression that you were running it.

Hmmm, I can see that...I'll be a bit more careful and more explicit. Shouldn't be too hard for a Louisiana boy.

[bearbottoms]

Hey, John Will: Check this out for email??? I need your sixth sense!

http://www.spamgourmet.com/

[JohnWill]

Sneakemail is a similar service, and I know someone that's been using this for years, and he hasn't gotten any spyware.