Comodo Firewall - It’s Simple To Use & It’s FREE
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I’ve been reading around the Internet that a new kid was on the block offering some free security products, and that they were getting some fairly good reviews. And after doing the article on firewall testing, and noting that Comodo received a mark of excellent, I decided to download it and give it a try.
As with most freebie software, you need to provide a email address to receive an activation serial number, and once that was done I proceeded with the download. The file is a little over 7MB. Installation was uneventful and only asked if I wished to stop the built-in firewall used by XP and required a restart.
After boot, the Comodo icon was in the system tray and activated. As with all firewall products, there is a learning experience the software goes through, in which you must tell the firewall which connections you wish to allow. Overall it is a fairly simple process. I then checked to see if my computer was going to take a performance hit with Comodo and noted it has a small footprint - using about 17k. And there were no spikes like I have seen with some firewall products.
Overall, I like the feel of Comodo. It is simple to set up and use. I would highly recommend this product to anyone wishing to use a software firewall product.
You can get your free copy of Comodo here.
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3 Comments
Peter
December 27th, 2006
at 3:15pm
i cant get comodo to connect to the internet.i have to switch off network activity.This is stupid since a firewall is ment to protect me.I like comodo very much but they should make it more user friendly.It also failed their online test.Can you help me out
Ron Schenone
December 27th, 2006
at 3:30pm
Hi Peter,
I have had to uninstall Comodo as well. After two weeks I had the same problem. See my post here.
http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/2006/12/23/comodo-firewall-problems-after-two-weeks-of-use/
I think we are just going to have to wait and hopefully Comodo will work out some of the kinks. Like you I like Comodo and I haven’t given up on it.
Kris
May 13th, 2007
at 12:46am
I have had some trouble with Comodo also, However I discovered it was because I had blocked svchost.exe from accessing the internet, So when your computer boots and looks to obtain an ip address via dhcp, It is unable to because comodo blocks it. An easy fix? Simply remove any entries in your programs list that have svchost in the name…
This is a very powerful firewall, I would have to say it is by far the best even in comparison to paid for firewalls…