Comodo Internet Security

I recently mentioned that I was trying out the free Comodo Internet Security suite. I’m about done with the initial evaluation so I reckon I should share some initial impressions.

The free version touts firewall protection, antivirus and proactive security. It seems to do a pretty solid job at keeping an eye on what’s going on with your system and alerting you when things are changing.

The good:

Non-intrusive
Non-confusing
Always updated

I think they’ve hit the right level of pop-ups and warnings with this one. The warnings are clear and typically will give more details and often show how other users have responded (not that those users are always correct…).

If you’re getting too many warnings while installing a new application you can just throw the whole thing into “install” mode and it’ll assume you really know what you’re doing.

The bad:

Always updating
[arguably] resource intensive.

While it is great that the firewall and antivirus engines are always keeping current, the downside is that they’re… always updated. If you’re running an older machine, those updates can really slow you down. Especially since it seems to always want to update at boot up.

I’ve been testing on an older Centrino based laptop. Normal operations are just fine, but the impact on the startup times and slowdowns when the updates are going on finally caused me to give up on it today.

Once I get a more powerful / current laptop I’ll give it another shot though. I definitely liked it and the price – free! – is right.

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