Ed Cryer wrote:
VanguardLH wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
VanguardLH wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
VanguardLH wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote:
VanguardLH wrote:
So elect not to purge Firefox's history on exit. You haven't even
bothered to look at the cleanup settings, have you? Else you would've
already known you could elect what types of data to purge.
Never jump to unwarranted assertions.
You were doing really well; very helpful and chatty. And then you fail
with an illogical assumption.
What led you to this one? It's wrong.
Ed
You:
I clear Firefox weekly; Options/ Privacy & Security/ clear data cache,
clear history.
(No mention of NOT including history in the cleanup.)
Premise:
You were deleting ALL history.
Me:
Firefox ... the choices of what to delete are limited: last 1/2/4 hours,
today, and everything.
There are probably extensions for Firefox and Chrome that will better
manage your history
You:
Have you ever been hit by "Now then, that website I was at earlier today
- where was it? Was it in www.xxx or wwww.yyy or what?"
Well, I have; and I've found that a look through Firefox's history often
gets me back there.
Before you were deleting all history, so the above scenario would occur,
same as if you used CCleaner or another cleanup tool. Now you want to
keep history.
Yes, no, sometimes. A moving target is hard to hit. Okay, decide when
you are using Firefox to clear out its local data (menu - Options -
Privacy & Security - History - Clear History) whether or not to
include history (exclude to keep all, include to delete all), or how far
back to clear history (menu - Library - History - Clear Recent
History), or use a cleanup tool to wipe all history (to overlap
Firefox's purge-on-exit settings), or use an extension to manage history
that matches whatever criteria you're trying to convey.
There is nothing in what I've said that could rationally conclude that
"You haven't even bothered to look at the cleanup settings, have you?"
A man who is overbearing with others is arrogant.
When a man lets his arrogance outstrip his reasoning powers he is very
arrogant.
Ed
Yadda yadda yadda.
Looks like your quest for a solution has ended.
I have a solution. And I got it without your haughty comments.
Yep, you digged into Comodo's settings to find how to alter its
behavior. Regardless of any responses, you would've found the solution
by digging into CFW's settings. The folks in the Comodo forums that are
focused on that security product might've known right away instead of
respondents here guessing why CFW was acting as a super-nanny.
http://help.comodo.com/topic-72-1-76...l#enable_alert
There are TONS of settings in Comodo. To use effectively and because of
its complexity, you should read its manual and read everything at least
once, especially how to configure it to behave how YOU want. Yeah, I
know a lot of users install security software and think the program will
do everything without any interaction from the user. Comodo's programs
aren't like that. There must be a few hundred settings in it. That
lets every user tweak it to behave pretty close to how they want. It's
going to dig deep into the OS and alter a lot of behaviors to add its
multitude of protections. Don't know how long you've been using
CFW/CIS. It could take a month of evenings going through everything
bundled in the product, and another month to get comfortable with it.
Unless the community has died due to attrition, they should be able to
help. That's where I went with a lot of my questions. Back when I was
using free CFW (without CAV and not paying for the CIS product), I
thought that suite of settings was bad enough. In CIS, you have even
more, like for CAV, GeekBuddy, Backup, and so on.
That page indicates the default for that setting is enabled. By its
description, that would seem to override any whitelist (pre-compiled by
Comodo to eliminate the onslaught of prompts when starting to use the
program or part of training period when you decide what to allow or
block). Did the prompt about inetcpl.cpl give you an option to Allow
*and* to remember your choice? I'm not sure that would help since this
setting looks to override your choices or whitelist(s).
http://help.comodo.com/topic-72-1-76...iguration.html
That shows HIPS is disabled by default (used to be called Defense+).
That's its behavior blocker (BB). It can try using all the fingerprint
detections, like the setting you found, along with signatures, but the
BB is needed to detect zero-day malware since there is no signature yet
for it and it may not touch the fingerprint triggers. CAV (Comodo
AntiVirus) is way too weak to stand on its own against other anti-virus
programs. They added the cloud scan. Instead of adding the HIPS from
CFW into CAV to give it a BB, Comodo moved CAV into CFW and borrowed the
exiting HIPS from CFW. When I trialed CFW many years ago, I thought
HIPS was enabled by default. Wonder what made them change their stance.