How good is your antivirus firewall software program? It is hard to tell as a end user. Sure, you can rely on information provided by test magazines, Internet websites, antivirus and firewall software developers or opinions from friends and colleagues. All of those recommendations are to a degree based on opinion and test criteria.
A good way to perform security tests on antivirus firewall software programs are so called leak tests. These tests simulate different kind of attacks and manipulations on a computer system without actually doing any harm to it. They usually present statistics at the end telling the user which tests the antivirus firewall software program passed and which it failed.
Comodo Leaktest is but one of the many available leak tests on the Internet. The security software is testing a total 34 different attacks and manipulations of a computer system running the Microsoft Windows operating system. Depending on the antivirus and firewall software in use some, all or none might spawn alerts.
The software program will display a score in the end. The maximum amount of points is 340, 10 for each test passed. Each test is explained on a local html page that gets downloaded with the software program. Those information can be used to find out why a test has not been passed. It does require some research though as the information provided are only answers to the questions what the test is doing and what the harm is if the test fails.
The leak test can be divided into different categories. It will begin with some rootkits tests followed by invasion, injection, info send, impersonation and hijacking tests.
Comodo Leak Test is a portable security software that will test an antivirus firewall software that is installed on a Windows operating system. It provides the means to find out if your computer system is still – partially or fully – vulnerable to common attacks encountered locally and remotely.
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everybody knows this list http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewall-challenge/results.php
for testing firewalls
and VBulletin tests for testing antivirus
Comodo Leaktest – this product was create for promoting Comodo products i think
@abv
And how does reason for creating product matters if it gets job done? If other firewall has hole this hole doesn’t get smaller from being tested with product created to promote Comodo. :)
I just ran it on machines with Kaspersky, NOD32, and NIS2009. None of them broke a score of 200, which I find hard to believe.
A test on a Windows XP SP3 test system with Kaspersky 2009 running scored 290 of 340 points.
AVG antivirus flagged the two dll files associated with this download as malware. BITS.dll it said is a key logger and DNS.dll is a Trojan…any thoughts? False positives?
David to test they need to emulate attacks which is the most likely reason for the scan results.
wow, scored only 150 with windows 7 and antivir XD
disabled UAC probably is a true problem…
LOL, my netbook with XP SP3 and Antivir scored 0 XD
fortunately, the most time I use Linux :P
Score of 20 on XP whit McAfee VirusScan Plus + Comodo BOClean and COMODO Memory Firewall.
Also my friend whit McAfee scored also 20.
Can someone else reproduce this issue.
I just ran the test on vista32 with nod smart security 4 and only got 110 and seeing that it failed its own product from post above COMODO Memory Firewall. I do not think that all of our setup’s can be that bad? it might be just a bad program for testing
To “abv” yeah, everybody knows that. But people like me keeps forgetting things. And once in a while, an article like this gets me off my rear end and run a test.
LOL. I tried to download this and use it as part of my intrusion kit. But my Avira and McAfee virus scans promptly picked it up. This will be useless for intrusion purposes :(
I only get 4 tests shown when I start up the .exe file. And I passed 2 and failed 2.
Where are the rest of the tests mentioned (34)?
And there is a total lack of documentation or explanation about what to do with whatever results you achieve.
Not impressed Comodo!
COMODO Leaktests v.1.1.0.3
Date 11:16:25 PM – 3/10/2009
OS Windows XP SP3 build 2600
1. Injection: APC dll injection Vulnerable
2. Injection: AdvancedProcessTermination Vulnerable
3. Hijacking: AppinitDlls Protected
4. Hijacking: ActiveDesktop Protected
Score 20/40
I’ve got ESET anti virus.. a good anti virus I’ve ever tested… Many anti virus cannot detect some viruses that are hiding on files. But ESET can locate it. How about you guys?
It did occur to me that might be the case, but how could anyone know for sure, they might have been infected and if we assume they’re dummy test viruses and get ravaged by something malicious who do we sue?
@ abv -
“Everybody”? What a ridiculously stupid statement! Few people in the World actually know how to even turn a computer on, much less about security.
And, of course this test was created to promote Comodo products … duh. It doesn’t take a mental giant to figure out that one.
Most likely, even Martin will receive something of value for publishing this article here. So what?
Companies (as well as most people in general) rarely do anything that costs money to produce or create without having a marketing benefit and goal in mind.
The value that I received were the comments of my visitors :)
hmmm 90 out of 340
So everyone else is seeing 34 tests? No one else is seeing only 4 tests like I am?
If you have Spyware Terminator, it’ll block the DLLs. Therefore, only 4 tests will be available. See the block actions and move the DLLs to the White List.
I don’t use Spyware Terminator. But I do have a host of other security programs running including Spyware Search & Destroy, Spyware Blaster, Comodo’s own firewall, Secunia, etc.
I guess it is good then that something is successfully blocking attempts to insert DLL’s.
actually you will get full 340 marks if you have a behaviour analysis program. You should block all the requests and you will get full marks. i tried with threatfire, comodo internet security and system protect and got 340 marks in all of them.
Plz give me this softwear
I tested OSSS (Online Solutions Security suite) – new firewall and HIPS, it’s great — 340/340!!!
Thanks for the tests!