Comodo Firewall 2.3 Rated Top Overall Personal Firewall
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Jersey City, NJ (Dec 4, 2006) - Comodo, a leading provider of Identity and Trust Assurance Management solutions, today announced that Comodo Firewall 2.3 has been rated as the top firewall product in a recent independent test of the security capabilities of major personal firewalls. The analysis, conducted by security specialists Matousec, tested 21 of the most popular firewall programs available (including paid versions from Norton, Zone Alarm and McAfee) with an array of leak testing programs to determine which product provided the best protection. The results confirm that Comodo Firewall 2.3 is the most secure personal firewall solution in the marketplace. Comodo Personal Firewall 2.3 is currently available with a free license. This highly rated security product is designed to be easy to use "out of the box".
Since its launch earlier this year, Comodo Firewall has continued to gain acclaim from the media and the public alike, garnering PC Magazine?s ?Editor?s Choice? recommendation (September 2006). It features both inbound and outbound packet filtering in combination with robust outbound application filtering at the network layer and allows fast and easy access to all major settings through a streamlined user interface.
Testing Summary
Matousec (http://www.matousec.com) is an independent Internet security research company created by a group of software security experts with the stated goal of improving end-user security through its security related projects and research. Matousec?s testing required that each firewall be tested twice against 26 of the most exacting firewall ?leak test? programs available, including 3 that Matousec developed especially for this survey. Leak test programs are non-destructive simulations of the attack techniques typically used by spyware and other hacker programs to deliberately attempt to bypass a firewall's outgoing security measures to identify a firewall's security flaws.
Matousec (www.matousec.com) tested each firewall once with the default, ?out-of-the-box? settings, and then once with the product?s highest security settings. Each firewall was then awarded an overall score derived from its pass/fail results against each test. The higher the score, the better the firewall performed against the range of leak tests. Although no single product passed every single leak test, Comodo came out on top of the list with a score of 9350 out of a maximum 9625.
yeah i was reading about comodo a few days ago,saying it was the best firewall.im gonna check it out later tonight anyway.the word comodo sounds awesome also
If you're going to try out any of Comodo's software you'd best make a System Restore point first because not all their software creates one during install. This is important because neither their antivirus or firewall properly uninstall and both leave all kinds of crap behind to the point where Windows Security Center will still detect them even if you've had to manually remove them, and even if you've used Total Uninstall to "remove" any remnants!
The more I used this program the more I disliked it. Currently I'm using ZA Pro(well I have the whole suite) on my laptop. I usually don't worry about running anything other than the windows firewall at home because of my router but when I connect to other networks I fire up ZA. (plus the AV is Etrust and soon to be kaspersky so that was a plus for me too. )
You might want to look at this if thinking about comodo:
I had a two year subscription to ZA Pro but didn't renew it. This Comodo really reminds of it, different interface yes, but very similar in its actions and responses. I really don't see any reason to ever use a different one, since it has free lifetime support and the beta is supposed to be an even better product. As far as memory usage is concerned, at this moment with all its features enabled, it's using 3,722kb, which seems low to me. Relative to all RAM usage, you all need to periodically scan your memory with AVG Anti-Spyware if you own it (don't know if free has that option!). If you run CCleaner first, then the scan, it takes less than 1? minutes. If you don't clean first it will take over two minutes. I do this about twice a day or after a scan with another product. I'm running (open and monitoring) AVG A-S, Spy Sweeper, Windows Defender, NOD32, Comodo, HDD HD Temp Monitor, MemInfo, PopTray, Weather Pulse and of course Firefox and at all times my memory usage is around 350MB to 400 MB of 1G. Apparently, when a process uses memory, it doesn't return it and AVG A-S frees it up. After a scan, with all those processes running except a browser, usage drops to 270 MB. Have a good New Year!
I'm sticking with Sygate Personal Firewall for now because of it's excellent performance and very low resource usage. However, I have Comodo installed on my gf's computer and it certainly seems like a great product.
Sygate is discontinued, so I recommend switching to Zone Alarm.
Just cos its discontinued doesn't stop it being an excellent firewall, still passes every leak test I've thrown at it so I'll be sticking with it, at least till one of the other free firewalls starts to stand out as a clear leader. I certainly wouldn't switch to Zone Alarm, had some experience of that on another computer and it was a complete nightmare.
Relative to this RAM issue, my latest freeware install is MemInfo. It can show RAM: used, available, % used (my choice, which really is just amount used since I have 1GB) or % available. The little graph has options also. By default it goes from green to yellow after 50% usage and to red at 90%. My system tray is starting to look like my kids notebooks! lol