Free Comodo BOClean version 4.24 officially released

[HAN]

This is the honed, tuned, tweaked, whatever you want to call it version. The initial Comodo version (4.23) had some bugs because it was rushed out the door too soon. 4.24 has been tested for several weeks now (before release.)

If you have any earlier versions of BOClean, you need to uninstall and reboot before installing the new version.


http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html?currency=USD&region=North+America&country=US&entryURL=http%3A//www.comodo.com/products/free_products.html

[Welshjim]

HAN--The link is not for the Comodo Firewall. Do you have any comments on BOClean's performance compared to other malware detectors?

[SpywareDr]

Comodo BOClean : Anti-Malware Version 4.24
http://www.comodo.com/boclean/boclean.html

Comodo Free FirewallVersion 2.4
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/

[HAN]

HAN--The link is not for the Comodo Firewall. Do you have any comments on BOClean's performance compared to other malware detectors?

Jim: I have been running BOClean (which has been and still is touted as an anti-malware/anti-trojan product, with the main focus on the trojan side) for over a year. At the time I began using it, I bought it for my PCs at home and also licenses for all of our PCs at work. My concerns then (and still now) are that if my AV misses something, I wanted one more line of defense.

One thing to say up front is that BOClean is not an antivirus. The items it covers are a smaller, more specific group of nasties. Add to that, BOClean is somewhat different than other anti-malware products because it doesn't pre-scan files as they are opening or closing but watches the active memory of the system it's running on. If it sees something it doesn't like, it stops the process and, depending on how it's setup, performs various cleanup routines. BOClean's decision making is based on both specific and heuristic definitions. While BOClean can scan individual files for infections (one at a time), it's normal mode of operation is a real-time scanner (only.)

Test-wise, I have never seen it in any objective test that I would rely on. I do know that people who buy it seem to stay with it. And I do see the occasional story of it stopping something that a user's AV missed.

I will say that in the time that I have used it, I have never had any infections on any PC running it. I have dealt with a couple of false positive situations. (The new 4.24 version has a much improved way to deal with FPs. It uses a rollback feature that reuses the previous "good" malware definitions. This is something I wish ALL anti-malware makers offered!!!)

Overall, in my experience, BOClean has ran quite smoothly. Before Comodo bought BOClean, NSClean (the old company) advertised that BOClean users never needed to run HiJack This! (because they never became infected with anything.) I don't know how true this may have been but I can't say I ever remember reading of any in my internet travels.

Hope this helps!

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Thanks for sharing this with us Han.