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PCMag.com today giving a great review on Comodo Personal Firewall 2.0 ( 4.5 /5 Rating). Comodo Personal Firewall is classifies and analysis more than 10.000 applications according to their risk and security level such as SAFE, SPYWARE, ADWARE etc.
Advantage of Comodo Personal Firewall is Blocking attacks from internal or external by controling which programs can access the Internet or network.
Overview of PCMag.com on Comodo Personal Firewall 2.0
Comodo Personal Firewall is a kick-ass free firewall. It keeps hackers out and tricky unauthorized programs off the Internet. And it resists being terminated. It works as well as all but the best for-pay firewalls and did I mention it’s free?
The firewall application seem like a good piece of software and worth for tryout.beside that Among other free offerings on Comodo website are Comodo Antispam (a challenge / response- based spam blocker), Comodo BackUp (a traditional file-based backup utility), and Verification Engine (an antiphishing browser add-in).
September 14th, 2006 at 10:06 am
The firewall seems in the first place an good piece of work, but when granted an application the firewall is comming back with an lot of pop-up would you allow, strange thing is that it sees that an application uses different ip’s for updating. Also ads, cookies, private information and scripting is not checking, with thi s firewall advertisements, banners and flash is growing enormous so no ad-blocker, no privacy control. none intrusion detection likes Kerio. The pc is running in stealth mode it claims that is has passed all leaktest i am in doubt the firewall is leaking private information and has no privacyfunctions. Spyware is simple slipping trough, when you run this firewall with Prevx Intrusion protection then you have strong weapon but in mine opinion every good firewall must have privacy protection.
I will this firewall recommend because it works good and need further developed.
September 27th, 2006 at 1:11 am
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP..This is a DANGEROUS product….At prodding of company’s CEO, I recently had to install a new hard drive and re-install XP and all personal configurations on laptop..Instead of reinstall McAfee, I installed the Comodo FREE firewall and anti-virus apps..3 days later my laptop couldn’t boot…and displayed a corruption on the hal.dll extenstion….4 hours into Dell’s phone support, it was determined that Comodo’s product was the root of the problem…and amazingly…this was confirmed by Comodo’s CEO—who sent a personal email acknowledging “this is a known problem with the Beta version”…and pointed me to the comdo user’s blog which identifies how to temporarily repair this problem….some of the strategies work others do not….the postings date back to July… this free software has apparently been in production for several months, yet the company continues to promote users to download it…knowing that it has the potential to corrupt hard drive files/extensions.
Have since had to wipe out the entire OS, and re-install everything from scratch..An entire day blown, files lost (no I didn’t automatically back up), and re-configure custom settings for 3 users..
Illustrating that ‘free’ is not only worth what you pay for it…but could prove extremely costly
December 6th, 2006 at 7:24 am
I can only agree with GGekko. I Installed Comodo firewall (the newest version, whatever it is) and also Comodo Antivirus (also newest). After installing Antivirus, my Thunderbird stopped receiving emails and always kept asking for password. I didn’t find any setting in Comodo antivirus to make it work again except turning off email scanning. But the real troubles started with Firewall. After installing and rebooting, windows couldn’t start because of corrupted hal.dll. Actually it wasn’t corrupted, it wasn’t there at all! After copying hal.dll from windows CD I rebooted the computer but guess what?! Windows found many “new” hardware devices and started to install them. And the worst thing: all my .msc files were erased too. So now I can’t open services.msc, devmgmt.msc, compmgmt.msc etc. Seems that I will have to reinstall windows
I decided to remove all comodo applications - after uninstalling and rebooting “tadaaa” - hal.dll missing again :(. This is not the behaviour I would expect from a “award winning” software.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Count me among the growing number of users who had to re-install my O.S. because of Comodo AV.
I had the same hal.dll prob mentioned above.
I think Comodo AV is still alpha software, NOT beta. It should not yet be offered to the public.
January 30th, 2007 at 6:04 pm
And i had the same problem as well this comodo antivirus did annoying stuff, luckily everything was decently back-up’t.
I will remove it from my home computer as well quite soon