Comodo BOClean 4.27

Rated 10/50 by Nighted at Feb 22, 2008

It's funny how people rate things based on other's opinions opposed to personal experience and then pass it off as empirical! Anyway, that's another topic/diatribe. I decided I'd try this program myself. I've successfully infected myself with a common trojan, Agobot with BOClean running. BOClean's list of "Covered Malware" claims it is aware of Agobot yet it does nothing as the trojan easily installs, executes itself and creates registry keys. UNACCEPTABLE.

Rated 30/50 by lotherius at Feb 27, 2008

Seems to miss some common trojans im my test as well. In its defense, most programs are falling down on the job these days. Few are able to find and identify trojans and other TRUE malware anymore - usually all they can find are the well-known adware type programs. The type of torjans/malware that hackers are using to steal passwords, zombie the PC, etc, change their signatures and methods way too quickly for this type of software to detect. The only protection is to not get the software on your system in the first place. I've started using a VMWare session to run anything even close to questionable.

Rated 50/50 by gismo409 at Mar 6, 2008

It's a Great Product, works well~

Rated 20/50 by irv4oh at Apr 17, 2008

Some testimonials of Comodo BOClean praise it for finding malware their antivirus missed. Well, after it shut down a program I myself made because it said it was a trojan, I wonder if the malware BOClean finds are too often false positives. I believe Comodo should provide data on the risk of false positives and otherwise improve BOClean's sensitivity.

Rated 40/50 by mfarmilo at Apr 25, 2008

Good program generally, although I too have seen a couple of false positives. One of those blocked a system file of all things. My main gripe really is that each time a new version of the program is released, it has to be manually downloaded, the old version uninstalled, the machine rebooted, then the new version installed. So although autoupdates are carried out daily, that doesn't extend to the main program. So that limits the user base to those capable of carrying out the above tasks in the right sequence. I know many home users who, if they were using the old version, would happily carry on using it until it dropped, blissfully unaware that it had been superceded by an update.

Rated 30/50 by Anonymous at Apr 26, 2008

Simple fact is that no matter what anti-virus or adware/spyware program you use, you will always be playing catch-up ball. No program, as things stand now can be developed that anticipate future attacks. The best defense is to just plain old common sense: don't open email that you don't know the sender, don't go to questionable sites and don't download programs unless you are assured that they are safe. Yes, have a decent firewall, anti-virus, and adware/spyware programs but use common sense. In the end that is the best defense. As far as this program it is average like most of these programs. nothing more-nothing less.

Rated 10/50 by why hello there at Apr 27, 2008

I always knew and stated what a digital turd BOClean was, but the list of those in agreement was a short one, because of the fanboy user base and the complete lack of a trial version. I find it funny how many people agree NOW, given that more people are able to try it.

Rated 10/50 by Undesired Username at Jul 18, 2008

Yes, I'm sure that's what s/he meant, idiot. Nice post. And to think, sometimes genuinely helpful reviews get deleted around here. This thing is indeed a piece of garbage. By default, it will blow away your Winsock registry settings and your "downloaded program files" directory contents, even when it flags a false positive.

Rated 50/50 by AlphaBetaGamma at Jul 19, 2008

I have used BOClean on and off for years, from back in its early days as a paid version. It has never caused me any real problems. On the other hand, I run in a limited user account and don't install suspicious programs, so it never catches anything either. But it is a nice backup, and I see no reason not to use it, especially since it is free. It doesn't slow anything down in my 2.4 GHz P4 under WinXP SP3. I am running avast! Pro also with no conflicts.

Rated 10/50 by betasun at Jul 19, 2008

Pointless at all .

Rated 10/50 by Bull at Jul 19, 2008

I don't trust anything Comodo related. This is no exception, it makes your system slow, and it doesn't give any security in return.

Rated 50/50 by Sammo at Nov 3, 2008

I used to use ThreatFire until it destroyed several good apps along with an actual threat whenever it found them. Now I use BOClean which has never killed good apps along with the bad stuff it catches.

Rated 50/50 by TS_download at Nov 19, 2008

"Detects threats in zipped files when they are run" Very good program No cons, no no weaknesses

Rated 40/50 by Web Bird at Dec 22, 2008

Excellent but a little basic. None really. It's there watching you from the top line (in my case). A little black tv screen that blinks to green every ten seconds. It's guarding your pc from attack. It would warn of a trojan, if one did appear. Of course it would be far better if it blinked (scanned) every three seconds for example. So only four stars.

Rated 50/50 by ory85 at Feb 4, 2009

"Real time trojan detector &remover!!!!!!!!!!!" It detects the trojans in real time monitoring & remove them them. update process dosen't start in 1 hour time, finally Comodo Bo Clean is the real time monitor for avoiding trojas spreading..........

Rated 20/50 by dynodeanmccabe at Apr 3, 2009

"Not impressed" Small compact program. Very easy to use. Requires very little resources. Not really worth it. It tried to crash/close a couple of times. Troubles with Shared dlls. Not stable at all.

Rated 40/50 by LawrenceEW at Aug 17, 2009

"Very happy works all the time and auto updates." Same comment as in 1. It is so secret I'm not sure it is working all the time or when it finds malware, etc. Comodo firewall and anti-virus suite is the best free program on the Internet working all the time and that's why I trust B.O.Clean is doing the same.