Comodo Free registration?

[Dreamstalker]

I recently ditched AVG and downloaded the Comodo free firewall/av suite. The program is bugging me for a reg key; I'm supposed to be able to get a key by just entering my email address.

When I click "get free registration key now", an error window pops up "Application does not exist" or something like that. This is after receiving a message post-download saying it's been registered with their server.

It seems to want to use IE for registration (which is not blocked), could the issue lie with that somehow?

[Andara Bledin]

Odd.

I used Comodo for quite a while, and used Firefox to do the email thing.

You might want to ask them directly, if you can, in case there's some page error somewhere.

^-.-^

[Dreamstalker]

More info:

The Support link is when I get "Application not found". "Get free license now" just opens the download page (I already have the program...) in IE even if Firefox is already running; same with the "more info". The only thing I could find in the knowledgebase is that the program requires IE (why?).

I re-downloaded it (using the link they sent me to when I clicked on "activate now"), and am now being bugged to purchase a license... I don't really need the live support; did they end the totally-free version and switch to trial-only?

[lordlundar]

Doesn't seem so. Here's the link to the free version. Is this the page you downloaded it from?

[Dreamstalker]

That's not the exact same page I downloaded it from, but it is the same file coming from the same location.

[Eric the Grey]

A lot of programmers are lazy when it comes to writing their code, and apparently it's easier to tell the program to open up IE instead of finding out what is the default browser and opening that up.

You would think otherwise, but I've seen this a lot. Kind of pisses me off...



Eric the Grey

[Darkforge]

Tell me about it,

I came across a program once that instead of having a real updater would open up a skin of an IE window every time you opened it, which would show the page that said whether there was an update or not, and you could click to continue to open the program, or to update it if one was available.

So anyway, IE8 came out, and they updated the program to work with IE8 as well as IE7.

But the problem was that if you had upgraded to IE8 and no longer had IE7 then you needed the update before you could run the updater program to make IE8 work...

So everyone who had IE8 had to either go to the website, redownload the most up to date version of the program and reinstall, or reinstall IE7, get the update and then reinstall IE8

Lazy coding causes problems.