The latter is Firewalla’s own way of telling you what you used a device for ; it’s not very precise as not all IP addresses are categorized, but it’s indicative enough. The Firewalla app is chockfull of features and will take a bit of time to get used to, but once you know where everything is, it’s a pretty straightforward experience. Almost everything you set on the entire network can also be applied on a per-device basis, so keep that in mind as you read on.
It is here to offer a different type of firewall while still providing the basic firewall traffic filtering necessities. Probably the most notable aspect of TinyWall is the “no prompt” approach. TinyWall will never prompt with with a message to block something. Rather, all blocking/allowing done by TinyWall is done behind the scenes and you are given multiple different ways to block/unblock programs and processes, through the use of hotkeys and white/black lists.
If you have a separate modem and router, you plug Firewalla in one of the router’s LAN ports — it’ll monitor all wireless devices and even ones plugged into the router’s other LANs. Too sensitiveFirewalla’s default alerts can be alarming for no reason. I don’t need to know if my phone uploaded 1MB to Google’s servers — it’s an Android phone, that’s expected.Missing featuresThe detailed per-domain traffic monitor only covers the last 24hrs.
This lets you track down what each device on your network is doing instead of viewing the global picture, and you can decide to act on certain domains and IP addresses straight away. If you’re not interested in immediate monitoring, you can still glean a lot of info from the general network tables or the per device ones. Every device also gets its own 30-day, 24-hour, and 60-minute graph, with CCleaner Windows control buttons, options to rename it, and check its MAC address. Beside customizing this screen to show more feature shortcuts, you can tap on the 24-hour graph to view a detailed network flow. It’s divided by hour, upload, download, chronological history, or apps.
- Allow you to scan and preview lost data before the purchase and recovery.
- Other features like automatic updates and virtual desk support are only available with the paid version of the app.
- For example, if you’ve used our CCleaner software to delete files using the Secure option, they’re gone for good.
However, there are some definite drawbacks to Comodo Firewall and something you want to consider before jumping on-board. If you have the choice, I’d recommend Online Armor or Privatefirewall before Comodo Firewall, but Comodo Firewall is still a viable option for those that are interested. Another major issue with Comodo Firewall is it comes packed to the brim with crapware. The download for Comodo Firewall is 125 MB; only 40 MB of that is the actual firewall.
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No per-device bandwidth limit per day or hour, no ad blocking exceptions. For all intents and purposes, TinyWall is not in the same league as the previously mentioned Online Armor, Privatefirewall, and Comodo Firewall. However, TinyWall is not intended to compete with the competition.
Mark Perlstein, Ceo, Datavail
The rest is Comodo GeekBuddy and Comodo Dragon, two other Comodo software that come packed with Comodo Firewall. Plus Comodo Firewall will hijack your homepage and change your DNS to use Comodo SecureDNS, if you don’t uncheck the relevant options during installation. The biggest downside to Privatefirewall is you can except to receive a lot of prompts — or at least more prompts than Online Armor. Probably the biggest issue with Online Armor is for VirtualBox fans.