
The views expressed are those of the author, not necessarily of Mongabay. Instead of tourism based on corporate investment, the government should develop a model of community-based tourism, argues Venansius Haryanto, a researcher at Sunspirit for Justice and Peace, an advocacy group based in Labuan Bajo.Opponents of the projects point to the potential for ecological and social disruptions.Plans to build tourism resorts inside Indonesia’s Komodo National Park, home to the world’s biggest lizard, have for years faced pushback from local communities.Clicking the button was yet another trap to install Yahoo.Ĭomodo may be effective at blocking malware, but it has blown my trust. Soon after that, an alert advised me that the Dragon browser had been updated, with a big button saying ‘OK’. The first time I opened Dragon, an ‘Antivirus’ window popped up recommending that I switch my settings in all other browsers to Yahoo’s homepage. I was annoyed, but Comodo hadn’t finished messing with me. If you fail to spot it and accept the standard installation options, Dragon will be forced on you, replacing your regular browser. If you do spot it, then click it, you’ll be prompted to install Comodo’s own Dragon browser – to which your answer should be ‘not in a million years’, but ‘no thanks’ will also suffice. Unless you have the eyes of an eagle (I don’t), you won’t notice the word ‘Components’ tucked away in grey at the top of the window (see screenshot). On the next page, I was asked to grant the antivirus tool several permissions. That’s a pretty clear statement of Comodo’s priorities, which have nothing to do with keeping me safe, and everything to do with securing the commission it receives sending web traffic to Yahoo.Īfter starting badly, things tailed off further. I launched the installer, and the very first thing I saw was a pre-ticked box inviting me to switch my homepage and search engine over to Yahoo. After all, it has a good reputation, so my expectations were high.Īlas, the software let itself down before it had even moved in. I’ve been looking for a good alternative to Windows Defender for some time, so I decided to give Comodo Free Antivirus a go.
