Are firewalls really needed?

mickey megabyte said:

have a look here and here for example - i only did a quick google - it's quite funny really, if true.

I see. As far as I know and have read the criticism leveled at Comodo's EULA can be leveled at most any software's EULA. Microsoft has an even more privacy invasive EULA and has openly pre-scheduled programs that send data to Redmond each and every day that the computer is in use and yet that does not prevent people from using Windows 7 which has a level of comprehensive data retrieval that did not even exist in previous versions of Windows, but the Comodo Firewall can be programmed to block all of MS's attempts to extract data from your computer on a daily basis.

~Maxx~
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mickey megabyte

Clicked the first link. I loved their moderators response at the bottom of the page.

US Congress question to Chairman of BP- "Did BP cause the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?"

BP Chairman- "No I don't play golf I enjoy yachting. I don't do the cooking so I don't know what oil the chef uses."

Hmmmm??????
Something got lost in the legal translation I beleive.

Maxxwire said:

CarlTR6 said:

Max, I was using Comodo until I discovered that Comodo sends information about the user's surfing to a third party. Maybe they don't do that any more; but I dropped Comodo.

Do you have documentation of this? From what I read there were some vague comments about Comodo's EULA which contains the same kind of legal jargon that MS has in their EULA only much milder about collecting user information and now the rumor has turned into these as yet undocumented accusations.

People need to wake op and realize who the real information gathering and dissemination enemy is. Most people have no idea that Google shares their information with everyone on the list of results that they get from them that's why I recommend using the Scroogle Scraper for truly anonymous and encrypted delivery of search engine results.

I try the best I can to be security conscious and this is why I am very interested in any documentation that you have about Comodo selling user information because it wouldn't be right to act on hearsay.

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Max, I will see if I can find the link. It was posted on one of the security forums. I looked it up at the time. I also think one of the security experts posted here also.

CarlTR6- I remember the controversy that you are referring to. Digging into the EULA of any software can lead to all sorts of wild speculations. There is a lot of ruthless completion in the world of computer security but I think its best to focus on what the software can do rather than to try to twist some legal jargon into something potentially incriminating. I value an honest set of side by side tests any day with the freedom to choose the best protection over gossip and speculation about the contents of the respective product's EULA because even the best sounding and eloquently written EULA will not protect your computer...



~Maxx~
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I've spoken with people who were using ZA about 7-8 years ago and according to them it was THE computer security software to have back in 2002.

~Maxx~
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deepakumar- Congratulations on your new state of the art multi-layered default deny computer security software! Make sure to do a full scan to make sure that your computer is clean before setting up HIPS.

Comodo makes using HIPS easy if you first in the GUI go into Defense+> Advanced> Defense+ Settings and set it to Training Mode and then one by one start all of the programs that you use and HIPS will learn all of your trusted programs. When you are finished return Defense+ to Safe Mode and it will notify you of any unauthorized code executions on the desktop.

If you set the Comodo Firewall in Custom Policy Mode in the GUI Firewall> Advanced> Firewall Behavior Settings it will alert you each time a program requests to access the internet and you can then choose to allow or block the request which will establish your Firewall Rules.

If you have any more questions please feel free to ask.

~Maxx~
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