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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Me neither, but I decided that a decade ago, when I was still on XP. Your problems sound eerily familiar - BSODs, hard to get rid of etc. I was going to suggest you get rid of it when you mentioned it the other day, but I had the impression you were committed to it, Comodo is one of these products that attracts evangelical followers.
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Comodo acquired a good reputation back in the day. There were a
lot of firewalls.
A popular source of information was the forums hosted by Steve Gibson on the Gibson Research site. Steve is the author of Spinrite, widely considered the most powerful hard drive maintenance utility.
Firewalls work by blocking ports, and his online Shield's Up! test would scan your system looking for open ports you might wish to close. Steve also ran "leak tests", that tested how robust a firewall was. If they got in at all, various types of exploits would attempt to disable or hide themselves from a firewall, and be able to phone home.
Comodo generally scored well in completeness of coverage and ability to protect itself if the system it ran on was compromised. I ran it for a bit back when, but preferred other things. The problem any such product faces is being as easy as possible for a user to configure. Comodo took more effort to setup and configure that some others.
My preferred firewall from the XP days was Sygate Personal Firewall, which was bought and killed off by Symantec. After you installed it, and time you ran a program that wanted to connect to the outside world, it popped up a box telling you whatever it was was trying to connect. You could allow it permanently, allow it for just that connect, or block it permamently. And you could go in ant edit the permissions list at any time to revise your choices.
Some folks gave it thumbs down because it was perceived as not good enough at protecting itself if you got infected. That wasn't a concern here because I practice Safe Hex and don't *get* infected.
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I had a breakthrough too. For the past several days I've been dropping in to various retail outlets trying to buy an OTG adapter/cable - none of them had such of thing, two didn't even know what an OTG cable was. Yet all of them sell mobile phones, and two of them sell keyboards - that's why I wanted one.
Today I happened to stroll over to the nearby Asian foodstore to buy white radish and rambutans; as I left I remembered that at the back to of the Vietnamese coffee shop next door there was a computer repair shop. So I went in there and asked. The owner rummaged around in his collection of cables and offered not one, but three OTG connectors. Interestingly he doesn't sell phones or computers, he mainly does laptop repairs, and sells 'bits'.
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OTG cables are one of the things sold by my preferred computer retailer.
I have several Android tablets, and wanted to use a keyboard with them. One does not have Bluetooth as a "design to cost" matter. Another does, but I don't have a Bluetooh keyboard. I have a Logitech Portable USB KB I wanted to use. With an OTG cable, it works fine. But getting the
right cable was a bit of a challenge. The first OTG cable I got worked fine and supported the keyboard, but blocked the power connector port when plugged in. If I used it, I could not also be on external power at the same time. The kind that didn't do that was carried but not in stock on the store floor. I found it in a search on the site and added it to an online order I would pick up.
It's the fiddly bits that are the annoyance. Don't get me started on screws, where the one I need is one I don't have, no matter how many I have...
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Dennis