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Editions
Comodo Internet Security (CIS) is available in four editions: Comodo Internet Security (the standard edition), Comodo Internet Security Plus, Comodo Internet Security Pro and Comodo Internet Security Complete. All editions contain a personal firewall which prevents unauthorized communication with the Internet, an antivirus that seeks and eliminates malicious software and the Defense+ monitors software for suspicious behavior and can "sandbox" certain programs, thus preventing them from making permanent changes to the system.
The basic version, also available for GNU/Linux systems, called just Comodo Internet Security, is freeware. The Plus, Pro, and Complete editions are available on paid subscription, and offer additional technical support for the duration of the subscription, including "GeekBuddy" support, depending upon edition, and insurance to pay for cleaning virus infections that are not prevented. The Complete edition comes with an online backup service subscription.
GeekBuddy is a support system whereby a Comodo expert makes a remote connection to the user's computer and resolves a wide variety of technical issues, included but not restricted to virus cleaning and Internet security, such as software installation and printer setup. It is available in the paid-for versions of CIS, and as a separate subscription service. The website offers a free 60-day trial of GeekBuddy, but one review reports that this was refused when requested.
Comodo also offers Comodo Firewall and Comodo Antivirus, components of Comodo Internet Security, separately. All editions of CIS can install antivirus software and a standalone personal firewall, or either of these alone.
[edit]Components
Comodo Internet Security was designed around the concept of layered security and provides the following functions:
Antivirus
Comodo's Antivirus Software was publicly released along with the Comodo Internet Security Suite on October 23, 2008. It can scan programs as they are opened, providing continuous protection against threats it recognises, and can scan all or part of a file system on demand. Since CIS 3.8 it has offered a heuristics engine built into the scanner. CIS 5.0 added cloud antivirus protection and spyware scanning capabilities. As it could not clean all the malware it found effectively, Comodo Cleaning Essentials was developed to supplement CIS.
Firewall
Comodo Firewall Pro generally wins high scores on Firewall testing sites, such as Matousec, and has regularly been included in the top three firewalls.[13] The firewall component has been declared Editor's Choice by PC Magazine and Gizmo's Tech Support Alert.
HIPS
Comodo's host-based intrusion prevention system (HIPS), named Defense+, is designed to provide protection against unknown malware. It is designed to restrict the actions of unknown applications, and restrict access to important files, folders, settings and the Windows Registry. Defense+ employs Default Deny Protection, by default refusing any unknown file permission to install or execute except when specifically allowed by the user or when the file appears on Comodo's whitelist. In CIS 4.0 a sandbox was added to Defense+ to isolate and run unknown applications.
Remote assistance
Comodo GeekBuddy, which is also available by itself as a separate service, is provided with paid versions of Comodo Internet Security. It allows a Comodo technician to connect remotely to users' computers to support them.
Process monitoring
KillSwitch is a system monitoring tool that allows users to identify, monitor and stop potentially unsafe program.
Malware cleaning
Comodo Cleaning Essentials (CCE) is a free-standing on-demand virus scanner and cleaner that uses the same antivirus engine and database as CIS. It was created in response to criticism of Antivirus's ability to remove threats it detected. Unlike Antivirus, Cleaning Essentials does not provide continuous protection, but is run on demand from a hard drive or a USB device. So long as the machine is connected to the Internet CCE can download the latest definition updates.
Before carrying out a full scan CCE reboots the machine and starts itself before other processes, which allows it to detect and clean malicious processes which could otherwise hide from and resist cleaning by software such as Comodo Antivirus.
CCE can carry out a full scan or a custom scan for malware including rootkits, and run KillSwitch, a task manager, like Windows Task Manager but with added facilities to determine if a process in safe, unknown, or dangerous. It can terminate stubborn processes that cannot be closed by Windows Task Manager. CCE also has a module to analyze processes which run automatically at machine startup, identifying malicious autostart processes.
[edit]Versions
Version 5 was current as of December 2012. On October 6, 2012 Comodo announced that a beta version of CIS version 6 had been made available for download from the Comodo forums. This vesion has a redesigned user interface that is tablet and touchscreen friendly, can operate a Windows desktop and application system entirely in a secured sandbox, and can create a rescue disk. CIS 6 installs and integrates with Cleaning Essentials and Killswitch.
[edit]Critical reception
In August 2012 cnet published an Editor's Review that gave Comodo Internet Security its highest ranking, "Spectacular". They commented "Now Comodo has stepped up its game and upped the level of competition with Comodo Internet Security."
Neil J. Rubenking, a leading Security Analyst, gave Comodo Internet Security 2012 a rating of "Excellent" in his PC Magazine review.
Comodo Internet Security 2012 was tested on 13 January 2012 and ranked number 1 in Matousec's Proactive Security Challenge for security software, and passed all of the 148 software firewall tests.
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