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Keeping Me Safe for Three Years: Comodo Firewall

Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal in Software

This is the second post in the series of Keeping Me Safe for Three Years posts. In the last post, I talked about the award winning Avira Antivirus which according to me is the best antivirus in overall performance and usability. You can see the post on Avira here.

The second post in this series covers Comodo Firewall and how it rounds out my dynamic duo of security programs.

Overview

Comodo Firewall is an excellent security tool and has built in protection against DOS attacks, ARP poisoning and many other sensitive attacks which can make your computer potentially vulnerable in a network.

Diving Right In

To start with, the opening page offers detailed and compact usage stats. We can see network statistics and traffic details. The traffic details come in handy when checking for applications which are consuming bandwidth and identifying unauthorized access.  This is useful, because it gives us a nice overview of what is happening on our network.

The firewall operates in two parts.  One is the Firewall which monitors network activities and second is Defence+ which monitors local memory usage of services. Both the services come in comprehensive forms with a well defined UI and an array of options.

Closest Competitors

Just like in the last article, I want to inform you of the other options out there.

• ZoneAlarm Firewall, which has a good UI and is the best alternative to Comodo, recommended for advanced users.
• Outpost Firewall, which has an extremely small size and is very easy to use, recommended for basic users.
• Threatfire, which is based on user feedback. ThreatFire has recently gained a huge popularity due to user participation and the good news is that Comodo Firewall has ThreatFire integrated into it.

Conclusion

This is the end of the Keeping Me Safe for Three Years series. Using a combination of Comodo Firewall and Avira Antivirus has kept my computer safe for a long time. Let us know what programs you use to keep yourself safe in the comments.

(By) Chinmoy Kanjilal is a technology, web2.0 and Linux enthusiast and evangelist. He has an in depth knowledge of working of Softwares, Operating Systems, Hardwares and Computer Networks. Blogging is his favourite pasttime. He blogs primarily at Techarraz. You can find him on Twitter @chinmoykanjilal.

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