[dba-Tech] New Comodo Firewall

BTW, When you try this wonderful FREE firewall, make sure that you place the
two parts into "training mode" or "Training with Safe mode" until it learns
your system. In these modes it will either just assume that everything is
fine and not prompt you to allow stuff to happen, or it will prompt you
once, then allow stuff to happen.  Which you use will depend on whether you
believe your system is clean of infections.

The firewall has a lot of very nice information windows such as:

View Firewall Events - allows you to see events that the firewall logged.
View Active Connections - allows you to see the active connections - pieces
and parts of software trying to get out to the network
Port sets, network zones, blocked network zones, a stealth ports wizard for
testing the firewall, and wizards to allow defining allowed and blocked
applications.

The "Defense+" side of the house has monitors to watch the loading of
applications as well as the modification of already loaded applications,
hooks being established etc.

According to Comodo, this is a complete rewrite of the old firewall (which
was already highly rated).  I like it, I like it more than the old firewall,
which I really liked.

And no, I have no financial interest in Comodo.  I just love the firewall.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
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Subject: [dba-Tech] New Comodo Firewall

I have to say the new Comodo firewall, v 3.x is AWESOME.  The firewall
itself is great, and now they are folding in the capabilities of malware
detection such as rootkits and other such goodies.

If you don't use a software firewall, you should try this thing.  If you use
any other firewall, you should try this thing.  They just keep getting
better.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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