Comodo Firewall "free for life"

First of all, I've been using this firewall for about 9 months now, no problems. Completely free, and it comes with a stealth port wizard and sandbox all built into the program. I can explain each of these features. Also once you install it, it's free for life, you don't have to re-register every year like Avast. You can get comodo here.

Sandbox like the name says, sandboxes a program into a virtual box in a sense. So say you open a virus in sandbox, it doesn't affect the hierarchy of your actual computer. You can do this with anything. But if you download sandbox the actual program, which you can get here. You can sandbox anything, Comodo has limitations, for instance it is incapable of sand boxing a browser easily.

Stealth port wizard is useful if you go into sites where your ip (Internet protocol) is in the open. Also it's useful while using Mirc if you don't have a proxy or something of that sort. It stealths all of your ports, making you un - pingable. Well theoretically, they are still able to ping you, but say you leave and someone tries to dos (denial of service) you. They wont know if you go offline or not, but there are ways around this if they are actually smart, which is rare in most cases. Also they will not know which ports are open and which are closed.

Comodo also has the option when you install to change your dns servers to comodo secure dns servers. I recommend it. It blocks a lot of ads and a lot of potential threats. Now if you install the program and the dns servers and you've been going to a site for a year and you know it's legitimate you can easily bypass the block. It will tell you with a big red screen saying that it's potentially harmful or something of that nature, with a continue button and it has in quotations "not recommended".

You can enable and disable sandbox. Comodo has a gaming mode which is convenient, meaning no alerts will pop open while you're in a game. I think this is the best choice for a home user. I've tried other firewalls like Norton. To me this gives more protection for the standard user rather than just setting it up and walking away. You actually have more control over what's going on and there are actually explanations of the features online.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions to other software, feel free to say whatever you please.