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Re: Free security s/w products from Comodo Group:
de Huss 06/05/2006 12:01
In message <447ce858$0$96952$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Melinda Meahan -
take out TRASH to send <mmeahan@TRASHsonic.net> writes
>Craig wrote:
>> Understood. I passed on Comodo stuff for other reasons as well. My
>>earlier response was just to straighten the record before this became
>>y.a. urban legend.
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>So what firewall do you recommend if one has bad experiences with zone
>alarm, Kerio, Outpost, Sygate, and TinyPersonalFirewall? I recently
>finally got around to changing from Outpost because it kept crashing,
>and had already made my way through the others and found them
>unsatisfactory. I tried a number of freeware ones I found and Comodo
>was the first one that I found that I liked, that worked with what I
>needed it to work with, and that I felt I could use.
Since this is a matter of security, surely the only firewall worth
having is one that is subject to continuous development? I am not yet
able to trust a freeware firewall. Contrary to beliefs held by most
windows users, it's not enough to install and forget, as exploits are
continuously being generated:
http://www.google.com/search?q=firewall+exploit
Remarks about, e.g., faults & exploits on freeware Outpost are now
dated; sure it used to crash, and sure you could kill it off, but that
is a very old piece of software, V 1x, and V 4x comes out inside a
month.
None of the earlier firewalls can cope with the newest more serious
threats, and freeware firewalls seem mostly to be older products and
thus now undeveloped/not meeting new challenges.
I can't comment on the Comodo offering, and perhaps Melih will; how does
the Comodo firewall check outgoing applications to see if they have been
altered (e.g., code injection)? Does it use MD5 checking, or does it use
the more secure hash algorithm (SHA) 256 verification routine?
The buried question here is will it stop a root kit? If it can/will,
then I believe that it is the first freeware firewall to do so, and I'll
try it.
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Huss