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You can also use it to launch Comodo's cleanup-only tool to wipe out persistent malware. While Comodo Firewall isn't an antivirus itself, it includes the option to create an antivirus rescue disk, and the process of creating this disk is quite easy. When I fully enabled the OSFirewall feature, ZoneAlarm flagged behaviors by both good and bad programs. It's worth noting that ZoneAlarm's OSFirewall feature functions in much the same way. The HIPS quite reasonably cast suspicious on a test utility that launches Internet Explorer and forces it to open malware-hosting URLs. Comodo only blocked the installer for one, and when I opted to treat it as an installer, I had no further problem. I tested it with a collection of utilities that share certain behaviors with malware. You can allow the behavior, block it, or choose to treat the program in question as an installer. Rather, when it detects suspicious behavior by a program, it asks you what to do. This is not a tool for foiling attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in the operating system and popular programs. The Dragon browser includes a useful collection of bonus apps, among them a media downloader, a price-comparison tool, and a tool for quickly sharing or searching text from Web pages.īoth Comodo products include a Host Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS), but it's disabled by default in the antivirus, enabled in the firewall. By virtualizing your online transactions, you protect them from manipulation by other processes.
The main feature of the virtualized desktop is the Comodo Dragon browser.
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It's similar to the SafePay desktop in Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2017 $34.99 at Bitdefender. You can actively launch any program in the sandbox, or open a fully virtualized desktop, isolated from the regular desktop. When you empty the sandbox, all virtualized changes vanish. A sandboxed program runs in a virtual environment, unable to permanently change important system areas. However, this feature is enabled by default in the antivirus, disabled in the firewall. File Rating is also a feature of the antivirus, but in testing I found that other protection layers always kicked in before File Rating had a chance.īoth the firewall and the antivirus can automatically sandbox programs that aren't recognized by the database. You also get a popup offering GeekBuddy services. If the database identifies a process as malware, or as a potentially unwanted program, Comodo terminates the process and pops up a notification. However, if you want the tech to perform any kind of remote repair or remediation, you'll have to pay.Ĭomodo Firewall does not in itself include an antivirus component, but its File Rating component checks files against Comodo's cloud database when you access them. You'll see messages offering help from the GeekBuddy tech support system, and indeed a GeekBuddy agent will happily chat with you.
Unless you carefully read all screens and popups, you'll find that without realizing it you've agreed to change all of your browsers to use Yahoo as home page, new tab, and default search engine. While both Comodo products are free, they also both push you to pay in one way or another.
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With Comodo, you upgrade to the free edition of Comodo Internet Security. With ZoneAlarm, you can convert either the antivirus or firewall to the combined product with just a click. And you can also get a combined firewall and antivirus from both. Both companies also offer a free antivirus, for starters. It performs all expected personal firewall tasks, but not all of the bonus features workedĬomodo's main competition is Check Point ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 2017, and there are quite a few similarities between the two.
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In addition to protecting your PC against attacks from the Internet and controlling how programs utilize your Internet connection, it includes a secure browser, sandbox-style virtualization, a Host Intrusion Protection System, and more. Comodo Firewall 10 is free, and it does a lot more than the basics.
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Paying for a personal firewall seems especially silly when Windows has one built in.
The firewall component in modern versions of Windows is quite effective, so the market for third-party personal firewall utilities is shrinking.
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