How much does Comodo firewall cost?

Comodo Security Premium has been priced and available for sale for several months.

I posted the availability on May 13. There have been some questions around the price, and that is an appropriate time for me to provide some information about pricing and availability in general.

For a number of reasons, security solutions are not commodities; there are so many aspects to consider that it's hard to provide an exact price without doing a lot of detailed testing. For any given solution (the number one variable being the license cost), pricing is likely going to have five distinct steps: The license fee for Comodo Security Premium itself, which is the first variable we need to figure out. The per-system cost of running the firewall or anti-virus software, which is the second variable to determine. The per-machine cost of running the firewall or anti-virus software, which is the third variable to consider. The value of features like data theft recovery and website blocking, which is the fourth variable to determine. The fifth variable is whether these features are included in a cloud or local deployment option; this is discussed in a later section of the blog post. What is the license fee for Comodo Security Premium? If you are a Comodo Partner or reseller, you have access to Comodo Security Premium as well as other partner products. Comodo Security Premium runs at the same price for every partner, including non-partner installations, regardless of how many machines are being managed., your monthly licensing cost is the same. The only things changing are (1) what you use Comodo Security Premium for (either as a system security solution or an appliance), and (2) how much time you spend managing and administering your customers' servers.

It is important to note that the monthly cost of Comodo Security Premium does not include access to any of Comodo's other partner products.

Is Comodo Firewall still free?

Is it a good firewall?

I have the Comodo Firewall which comes free with most Linux distros and is basically built into my browser. Is it a must-have? There are a lot of very cheap firewalls but is the Comodo free option still something that's essential for me?

Since 2024 (?) most Linux distribution ship their own (free) firewall with all or most apps, including browsers. The reason: most free OS's don't allow third party apps to run anything that isn't part of the GNU or BSD licenses. This is in order to prevent (very) bad things from happening. You'll end up with a lot of apps running at the same time, which is very taxing on your CPU, memory and disk space.

If you're looking for a real firewall though, I'd look at pfSense, iptables or the commercial product Unbound by Redhat, or the firewall software included with many Linux distros. Comodo's is a good firewall, but only works if you're behind an ADSL router/modem. As soon as you switch over to wired network, the data is routed directly out of the modem, and not through your ADSL router. It's designed to be used within your LAN, which you can always VPN into for access to the internet, but it's not intended to be used between two wired computers.

Your router could have a firewall on it as well as having it connected to your ISP. If it does, make sure it's turned off, then enable Comodo on it.

What's a good free firewall?

After a long, long time of running my own personal server, I am now in the market for a new firewall.

I'm not sure what I'm looking for exactly, but I think I have a rough idea.

I want something that will block all incoming and outgoing traffic on a LAN (not internet). I want it to be easy to install and use. And I don't want it to be extremely expensive. What do you recommend?

I don't mind if it doesn't work well on a desktop, because I'll be using it on a server. I would suggest you get a router that has the capabilities you want. Check the reviews and find a model that looks like it will do what you want.

For home use, I use a Linksys WRT54G with Tomato and I can turn on or off features based on which services I'm using. It's great for home use and it works well on my desktop. For servers, I use a Netgear ProSafe R7000. You can choose from hundreds of features in Tomato and it's just as easy to use as Linksys.

I would recommend looking at both of those options. BTW, there are plenty of inexpensive firewalls out there and most of them are fine for home use. I've used a few different brands and they all work fine for me.

Thanks for the recommendations, I've been reading up on them. I'll look into those models you mentioned.