After hearing a representative from Comodo on the Computer America show I decided to give it a try. When the guy said Comodo Antivirus uses less then 7MB of system memory I had to give it a go. This is just my 2 cents after trying the program and is no way a full test or scientific in anyway.
Just a couple notes before I start:
1. I only installed the antivirus I did not install the antispyware or antispam portions.
2. I do not have any virus infections nor did I purposely try to get one. I assume that Comodo is at least as good as the other top free Antivirus programs. (based on tests by av-comparatives, c-net, etc)
3. I was looking at it completely based on performance,ease of use, and false positives.
4. I tested this on a system with a 2.4Ghz CPU, 1.5GB of DDR RAM with a Geforce 5200 graphics card running Windows XP SP3. This is typical of a lot of systems I see today in my work as a in home repair tech.
Downloaded a 72MB file and installed it with no problems. Maybe I was impatient but after the program finished installing I had to manually update the program. As the representative said the program did use less then 7MB of RAM while it was just sitting there running in the background. Of course while doing updates or running a full system scan it does use more RAM but that's to be expected and it didn't seem to have a big impact on performance.
I did a full system scan with the program and it found 5 potential infections. All 5 were false positives. It reported the NOD32 database files from the NOD32 online scanner as a potential virus. It also reported the exe file for Q-Dir (a multi-window file explorer) as a trojan. I downloaded it again from CNet and Comodo still said it was a potential virus. The last 3 were repair tools that I had on the system. No other antivirus I've tested on this system be it AVG, Avira, NOD32, etc have reported any of theses files as a potential virus or malware.
Other then the false positives the program was very streamed lined and easy to use. The program appeared very stable and didn't bother me with pop ups. It also had a very low impact on the system performance. It was the best I've seen so far in that respect, it was very comparable to NOD32. Of Course performance would suffer more it you ran the antispyware as well. It was easy to use but asks you what you want to do with the infections it finds, which I think is bad for the average Joe. It should automatically clean if possible and quarantine if it can't (maybe it can I didn't check.) The false positives bothered me a bit since they were all well know programs that have been around for quite awhile and should be recognized buy the AV program. They are tech tools for the most part but what else will it false positive on? At this point I wouldn't recommend it for my less technical customers, think grandma with her first computer. For slightly techie users it should be just fine and they can take advantage of the better performance.
Just a couple notes before I start:
1. I only installed the antivirus I did not install the antispyware or antispam portions.
2. I do not have any virus infections nor did I purposely try to get one. I assume that Comodo is at least as good as the other top free Antivirus programs. (based on tests by av-comparatives, c-net, etc)
3. I was looking at it completely based on performance,ease of use, and false positives.
4. I tested this on a system with a 2.4Ghz CPU, 1.5GB of DDR RAM with a Geforce 5200 graphics card running Windows XP SP3. This is typical of a lot of systems I see today in my work as a in home repair tech.
Downloaded a 72MB file and installed it with no problems. Maybe I was impatient but after the program finished installing I had to manually update the program. As the representative said the program did use less then 7MB of RAM while it was just sitting there running in the background. Of course while doing updates or running a full system scan it does use more RAM but that's to be expected and it didn't seem to have a big impact on performance.
I did a full system scan with the program and it found 5 potential infections. All 5 were false positives. It reported the NOD32 database files from the NOD32 online scanner as a potential virus. It also reported the exe file for Q-Dir (a multi-window file explorer) as a trojan. I downloaded it again from CNet and Comodo still said it was a potential virus. The last 3 were repair tools that I had on the system. No other antivirus I've tested on this system be it AVG, Avira, NOD32, etc have reported any of theses files as a potential virus or malware.
Other then the false positives the program was very streamed lined and easy to use. The program appeared very stable and didn't bother me with pop ups. It also had a very low impact on the system performance. It was the best I've seen so far in that respect, it was very comparable to NOD32. Of Course performance would suffer more it you ran the antispyware as well. It was easy to use but asks you what you want to do with the infections it finds, which I think is bad for the average Joe. It should automatically clean if possible and quarantine if it can't (maybe it can I didn't check.) The false positives bothered me a bit since they were all well know programs that have been around for quite awhile and should be recognized buy the AV program. They are tech tools for the most part but what else will it false positive on? At this point I wouldn't recommend it for my less technical customers, think grandma with her first computer. For slightly techie users it should be just fine and they can take advantage of the better performance.
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