Saturday, January 09, 2010

Comodo Internet Security - Review of the Antivirus+Firewall software

What is it ?
The Comodo internet Security pro is an advanced firewalls and anti-virus to protect your PC from viruses and suspicious signals or bots..

Who can use ?
Anyone using a computer.

What is antivirus ?
Software that is used to detect, delete and or neutralize computer-based viruses by matching corrupted or harmful files in the computers with similar files available in their database.Another definition of antivirus software is an utility that searches a hard disk for viruses and removes any that are found. Most antivirus programs include an auto-update feature that enables the program to download profiles of new viruses so that it can check for the new viruses as soon as they are discovered.

What is antispyware ?
Spyware is a type of malware that is installed on computers and collects information about users without their knowledge to monitor the user's activity so that the companies using the spyware market their products to the user.The software which detects and neutralize such files are called as antispyware.Similar to antivirus software these software also have malware profiles which help them to identify such potentially harmful files within the necessary.

What is firewall ?
Firewall is a program which blocks an unkown or potentially harmfull or unwanted signals from accessing the computer which hosts the program.The firewalls work exactly as a wall to the suspicious files.The software have a database which stores the suspicious files which it compare while blocking.

Owner ?
Comodo Security Solution

Discount/Coupon/Offer ?
30 day trial.

Price ?
$49.95 per year.

When was the last update in the virus/spyware database ?
2009

Positives

The Comodo Internet Security offers three protections from one year of payment in $49.

The Security package comes with "Default Deny".The module automatically detect and block malwares.

Live support available 24/7

Negatives

Dont know the updating dates of virus/spyware databases but a capability of antivirus depends solely upon the virus database.

If not unchecked,the CIS will install a toolbar and a search form in the browser.Though there is an option to remove it.

Nearest Competitor : Trendmicro

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