PC Magazine just reviewed Comodo Personal Firewall 2.0 and gave it 4.5/5! You might think that you don’t feel like paying for a firewall when Windows XP SP2 has one built into it, but this one is FREE. PC Magainze also tagged it as an Editor’s Choice and this is the overview that they gave of Comodo:
Comodo Personal Firewall is a kick-ass free firewall. It keeps hackers out and tricky unauthorized programs off the Internet. And it resists being terminated. It works as well as all but the best for-pay firewalls and did I mention it’s free?
It looks like it is a good piece of software and if you want to learn more about it then visit the Comodo Firewall Homepage or read the rest of the PC Magazine review.
should I use this instead of the firewall that comes with Norton?
Most people use just one firewall, but they should not conflict with each other so you should be able to use both.
-Ryan
what I’m truly asking is, is this better than norton’s firewall?
I installed the firewall but gave me problems with the new Yahoo! Mail Beta and with Live.com. Both pages didn’t properly display: Yahoo Mail didn’t show me my emails and live.com simple got stuck when trying to sign-in. Seem to be a problem with AJAX but I’m not sure…
But the firewall has many more options for the user than ZoneAlarm has.
Hope they fix the problem I mentioned before because Comodo Firewall promises to be the best free firewall around.
C,
I am not sure which firewall is better. Norton has been around for quite some time so I would probably give them the edge because of their experience.
-Ryan