When the Windows firewall simply doesn't fit your needs anymore, you should seek a more powerful utility, with more protection features, like COMODO Firewall.
The software can change your DNS servers to COMODO SecureDNS servers and enable "Cloud Based Behavior Analysis" of unrecognized programs from the beginning of the installation. When you'll first start it, you wil lsurely notice that the user interface is rather friendly and attractive.
The Summary section enables you to view the current status of the firewall and that of Defense+. Thanks to COMODO Firewall, you can visualize system events and get instant notifications when a malicious threat is infiltrating into your PC.
The firewall allows you to set rules and mark any application as either trusted or unrecognized by you and thus deny access to your system and its resources. More features include the monitoring of active applications that are currently connecting to the Internet, setting the security level, alert frequency level and more advanced firewall options.
COMODO's Defense+ is the place where you can view a log file with any actions taken under its supervision, add, move, purge or remove trusted or unrecognized files, make a list of protected registry entries and blocked files, and more.
One of the most coveted features you can find in this module is the 'Sandbox'. This will allow you to safely run any programs in a secure environment that does not come into contact with your system, very useful for analyzing software behavior.
To sum things up, COMODO firewall is one of the strongest defenses you can add to your system and certainly a recommended addition to any PC. The solid feature pack will accommodate the needs of all users, even for those with less experience in configuring such tools.
What's New in This Release:
· IMPROVED! Compatibility with other security suites is improved in Windows 7 x64
· FIXED! BSOD when corrupted executables are loaded in memory in Windows 7 x64
· FIXED! HIPS can leak process handles with a special set of access rights
· FIXED! Smart scan crashes under certain circumstances