I initially only installed “Comodo Firewall” but for some reason they also installed a “Comodo Dragon Browser”, which I did not consent to. I always choose the “advanced” installation to uncheck bloatware, but in this case there was none and when you try to uninstall the browser, they force you to participate in their survey otherwise you won’t be able to uninstall the software…
That could be a Comodo bug, but honestly it could just as easily be a DLL injecting itself into random executables (had a lot of those in the mid 2000s/early 2010s, especially if the program used an IE panel somewhere to render HTML). I’ve never had Comodo freak out about hooks installed by other programs during the time I’ve used it.
I looked around on the internet for more context but all I can find are plausible/accurate global hooks and end users that don’t know what a global hook is. I’m not sure why they’re seeing this, I’m guessing they put up the “security level” as high as it could go without considering what that may do.
Not a bug exactly - they didn’t think it through. To see what I was talking about you’d need a very very old version. Like way back when it was new. It seemed the that it was the developers that didn’t know what a global hook was. They were just very obnoxious about it before finally seeing reason and correcting the behaviour. At the time, it woild fire for -every- global hook. To my knowledge you can mo longer reproduce this, but the reaction they had to someone trying to suggest this wasn’t right was enough for me to never go near anything under thier brand ever again.