If you decide to give Comodo FW a trial, I recommend you check out CruelSister's EXCELLENT configuration guidance at HERE. I recommend you to take a close look at using Tiny Wall because: (a) it has a very active support thread here at Wilders, and (b) TinyWall's developer participates very often in that thread. In answer to your question: YES for Comodo FW, and "I don't know" for all other 3rd party FWs. For example, the ComodoFW has a built-in sandbox that can be used to safely do a check-run of apps without exposing the user's computer to infection or BSODs. If carefully configured by the user, the Comodo FW can be far more powerful than a front-end-plus-WindowsFW. 3rd party firewalls are a good bit more complicated to configure than front-end apps.
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So, YES - they do give more protection than the Windows FW alone. They help the user to easily configure the Windows FW. Front-end apps are very user-friendly.Examples of 3rd party FW are: Comodo and Evorim.Īs to your question, " Do they give more protection than the Windows firewall?". Some Wilders folks prefer to use a 3rd party, self-sufficient FW instead of using the Windows FW. There are several excellent front-end apps that are being discussed here at Wilders. A front-end application lets the user easily configure the Windows FW. Therefore, many Wilders members use a "front end" application. It is a good FW but it is difficult to configure. I forgot to mention, and to stay more OT, it works great with Windows Defender (Security).As you probably know, Windows has its own built-in FireWall (FW). Installing a couple of Windows updates, I was assaulted with a barrage of alerts, too many to respond to, so I placed it in "Learning Mode", allowing it to create the rules, re-booted, checked and modified the new rules as necessary, then placed back to "Paranoid Mode". I'm getting there, I think, but it's a serious work in progress.
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This program is actually a BEAST! The biggest hurdle is figuring it out and learning how to tame it. Much better now.ĭoes anyone know if Cruel Sister has the configuration in a written document somewhere? I saw the video but it's easier for me to follow through written instructions. Today I ran several re-boots under Learning mode, then placed into Paranoid mode. BTW, I installed the firewall/HIPS component yesterday evening, placed into Paranoid mode a little sooner than I should have and locked myself out of my accounts My image restore program came to the rescue. All the remaining junk still in containment could be flushed out without any system effect.Īs to installing on a resource poor system- I personally will (for any product I want to check out) dumb down my VM setup to a resource level equivalent to the biggest POS one can imagine just to see how things will run and I can assure you that cruel CF is peppy even in this scenario.Ĭlick to expand.Good question. When run, the malware was plopped into containment- where all subsequent malicious spawn was also contained- VirusScope detected and deleted the vbs and python scripts and the FW alerted, blocked, and prevented the contained beacon from connecting out. Note: I've been playing with a pretty piece of malware I came across recently- a Zoom video stealer which does a number of nasty things including (but certainly not limited to) like using a batch script to hide the directory containing malicious processes and tools (via an "attrib +s +h +a" batch command) a vbs script, some Python routines, as well as setting the ability to Beacon. Comodo's definitions aren't in the same class as something like K, but who cares as:Ģ). It does work in that it will detect and delete stuff that Comodo has definitions for (just like any other AV) and being only an on-access thingy it takes essentially no resources. Virusscope is as useful (or as pointless) as any other AV would be.
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