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Comodo Firewall 10 Setup
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<blockquote data-quote="AtlBo" data-source="post: 701785" data-attributes="member: 32547"><p>On these:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, disabling HIPS will disable protected files and folders protection. You can see the "Protected Files and Folders" setting is there at the settings location above, so it is HIPS that monitors files and folders and provides this protection. If you look at each of the protections in the list, you can see what HIPS actually monitors specifically. Each HIPS alert will be of one of the types with the check boxes. These are the actions that HIPS blocks, (until you allow). In the list, you can see all the check boxes for each protection, and one of them is "Protected Files and Folders". If the Comodo HIPS module is deactivated, however, Comodo will not be monitoring using any of the HIPS block protections listed, even if they are checked and including "Protected Files and Folders". This is true, even if you have configured some files and folders to be monitored. HIPS must be on to have that monitoring.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Seems pretty good to me, but haven't ever done any testing. I did see MalwareBlocker's YouTube video where I think it blocked 5/10. Not very good, true, but I haven't ever been abused running avast. I like the extension. It's not much, but I don't want a dramatic extension for website recommendations.</p><p></p><p>Have you looked at Bitdefender? This video seems impressive with the internet blocks for a free program:</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]uYNRbgvcL0A[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I believe she handles that with extensions mostly. She is super confident that Comodo will catch malware when it attempts to run. It's easy to understand this, because even memory based malware has limited potential to do damage if it can't drop a file somewhere without being detected. Now if it's running as part of your browser, masquerading as the browser, like a rogue extension, things can become problematic. Since the malware would likely want to drop something, the only defense Comodo would have is "Command-line Heuristics". This is because your browser is automatically whitelisted, so malware running as part of it can basically do anything. This is really the only scenario you need to be aware of as far as the browser and Comodo go. Make sure you are getting safe and reputable extensions and you can also run the browser in a sandbox like sandboxie (also MS Office Applications). This is the best defense.</p><p></p><p>BTW, I use Qihoo 360 Total Security on a few PCs. If you block a few Qihoo processes, the ads are non-existent. I can't recommend it because of them, but 360 has a good sandbox. Problem is it doesn't love Chrome. Big problem I know. Anyway if you ever try Q360 make sure to activate the Bitdefender and Avira definitions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AtlBo, post: 701785, member: 32547"] On these: Yes, disabling HIPS will disable protected files and folders protection. You can see the "Protected Files and Folders" setting is there at the settings location above, so it is HIPS that monitors files and folders and provides this protection. If you look at each of the protections in the list, you can see what HIPS actually monitors specifically. Each HIPS alert will be of one of the types with the check boxes. These are the actions that HIPS blocks, (until you allow). In the list, you can see all the check boxes for each protection, and one of them is "Protected Files and Folders". If the Comodo HIPS module is deactivated, however, Comodo will not be monitoring using any of the HIPS block protections listed, even if they are checked and including "Protected Files and Folders". This is true, even if you have configured some files and folders to be monitored. HIPS must be on to have that monitoring. Seems pretty good to me, but haven't ever done any testing. I did see MalwareBlocker's YouTube video where I think it blocked 5/10. Not very good, true, but I haven't ever been abused running avast. I like the extension. It's not much, but I don't want a dramatic extension for website recommendations. Have you looked at Bitdefender? This video seems impressive with the internet blocks for a free program: [MEDIA=youtube]uYNRbgvcL0A[/MEDIA] I believe she handles that with extensions mostly. She is super confident that Comodo will catch malware when it attempts to run. It's easy to understand this, because even memory based malware has limited potential to do damage if it can't drop a file somewhere without being detected. Now if it's running as part of your browser, masquerading as the browser, like a rogue extension, things can become problematic. Since the malware would likely want to drop something, the only defense Comodo would have is "Command-line Heuristics". This is because your browser is automatically whitelisted, so malware running as part of it can basically do anything. This is really the only scenario you need to be aware of as far as the browser and Comodo go. Make sure you are getting safe and reputable extensions and you can also run the browser in a sandbox like sandboxie (also MS Office Applications). This is the best defense. BTW, I use Qihoo 360 Total Security on a few PCs. If you block a few Qihoo processes, the ads are non-existent. I can't recommend it because of them, but 360 has a good sandbox. Problem is it doesn't love Chrome. Big problem I know. Anyway if you ever try Q360 make sure to activate the Bitdefender and Avira definitions. [/QUOTE]
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