Comodo Firewall Pro 3.0 is all things to all people. It can act as a simple personal firewall that handles only the basic functions. It can broaden its protection to many critical system areas (with a concomitant rise in the number of pop-up queries). And a super-techie can tweak just about any part of it. Best of all, it's free!
Settings for Defense+ include access to the lists of safe and quarantined files as well as to files pending review. You can add to the list of files, Registry keys, and COM interfaces that Defense+ protects (though you'd better know what you're doing). And you can get an informative list of running processes with the option to terminate any one of them—kind of like a super-powered Task Manager. The novice user can simply use the CFP firewall with or without Defense+ and never touch any settings other than the overall security level. For the confirmed tweaker, though, there are tons of configuration options.
In firewall configuration you can manually add a new trusted or blocked application, adjust the way it stealths ports, and define trusted or blocked networks, among other things. comodo's CEO waxed philosophical about the company's intentions. "We have to protect the Internet," he said, noting that unless every PC is protected, we'll all suffer. He calls the product simply "version 3" because it's more than just a firewall, and notes that prevention should be the first line of defense. In his estimation, comodo is like an insurance company that wants to see you stay healthy, while some security vendors are perhaps more like drug companies in that they profit when you're not healthy.
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