We pick up the Security for everyone series this week together with the absolutely free Comodo Online Security. Comodo entered in to the security arena in 2001 with their individual secure email certificate. In 2005 Comodo added desktop safety to their portfolio with their firewall item. In 2008 the Comodo Net Security suite was introduced adding a different choice to the firewall, antivirus and antispyware space. How does this relative desktop security newcomer stack up?
The Comodo Web Security installer weighs in at just under 60 MB. The install is pretty straight forward and doesn’t introduce any toolbars or third party applications. The install provides you the opportunity to set up each the firewall and antivirus solution together, or separately. For this critique both goods have been installed. A couple of other install concerns incorporate regardless of whether or not you’d like to join the ComodoThreatcast community and if you’d like to use their secure DNS servers. The install completes immediately, largely as a result of no initial scan becoming required, and does need a reboot.
Immediately after a reboot Comodo detects the network and offers you an chance to let file and printer sharing or quit detecting networks all with each other. The method then encourages the initial scan. My initial scan took just under 45 minutes to complete and identified a few network troubleshooting utilities as suspicious, and rightfully so. When the initial scan is full you will find no further configuration prompts or wizards to run via.
The summary screen displays lots of useful details with no more than undertaking it. The balance of status, antivirus and network facts offers a single the impression that Comodo has the system well beneath control. The summary screen also does a nice job of showing which programs are requiring essentially the most of one’s network site visitors. This bit of know-how coupled using the potential to effortlessly cease all connections can go a long way toward generating your grandmother feel like she includes a bit of handle also.
