No Start Menu for You

Re:No Start Menu for You by roel_v on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @06:00AM (#34425379)

Yeah I should probably look into it more. Can Comodo's firewall be used standalone, i.e. without its antivirus? What I needed from Glasswire was click-to-allow on each network access, I couldn't find that in any product I tried a few years ago before I decided on Glasswire.

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Re:No Start Menu for You by Eisenstein on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @07:00AM (#34425713)

> Can Comodo's firewall be used standalone, i.e. without its antivirus?

Yep, just pick the firewall from the installers and make sure you uncheck everything except the firewall during the install (they are tricky, these guys):

* https://forums.comodo.com/news-announcements-feedback-cis/co...

after installing go through and (again) disable everything but the firewall. I also use their firewall to block their firewall (hah) from updating. Once you do this it works fine as a standalone firewall and the only reason to ever update it is if you reinstall or upgrade Windows.

EDIT: It does per-app blocking great; that's why I use it. I tried glasswire and didn't like it (or maybe they wanted to charge me money, I forget).

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Re:No Start Menu for You by dhaavi on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @07:24AM (#34425879)

You might enjoy Safing's Portmaster Firewall then: https://safing.io/

It's open source and is quickly surpassing GlassWire's capabilities.

Disclaimer: I'm Founder/CTO of Safing.

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Re:No Start Menu for You by Eisenstein on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @08:00AM (#34426130)

I am a bit confused about Portmaster and Safing. The documentation on Safing constantly refers to Portmaster. Does portmaster do anything besides act as a local firewall?

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Re:No Start Menu for You by dhaavi on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @08:06AM (#34426178)

There are 3 big parts:

- The firewall itself with rules, filter lists, and so on - https://safing.io/features/

- Secure DNS (DoT/DoH resolver) - https://safing.io/features/

- "SPN": Optional paid VPN alternative similar to Tor, our source of revenue - https://safing.io/spn/

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Re:No Start Menu for You by RandomChance on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @01:22PM (#34430662)

I'm pretty sure you can actually configure the windows firewall the same way, but you would have to it up front, instead of having it prompt you.

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