Comodo Internet Security 6 Installation & Configure by Britec

# Article: A Comprehensive Guide to Setting Up Comodo Internet Security Suite

## 1. Introduction to Comodo Internet Security Suite

Comodo Internet Security Suite is a powerful and comprehensive security solution designed to protect your device from various online threats. This article provides a detailed guide on how to download, install, and set up the suite, as well as explore its features and functionalities.

## 2. Downloading and Installation Process

To begin, navigate to Comodo's official website and visit their free products page. You'll find Comodo Internet Security, which offers an all-in-one solution including a firewall, antivirus, browser, and additional tools like a kill switch. Choose this option for a singular download or opt for standalone components if preferred.

Initiating the installation, you may be prompted to answer questions about your network environment. Select "I'm at home" to allow internet access during setup. The installation process is straightforward, with options to customize by selecting or deselecting features like Komodo Secure DNS and cloud-based behavior analysis.

## 3. Features Overview

### a. Firewall

The Comodo Firewall offers robust protection against unauthorized incoming connections. It allows you to block or permit applications and manage network settings effectively.

### b. Antivirus

Comodo's antivirus provides real-time threat detection and防护, with features like HIPS (Host Intrusion Prevention System) for added security. It also includes an optional paranoid mode for enhanced malware removal assistance.

### c. Browser

The suite integrates a secure browser that isolates browsing activities in a virtual environment, ensuring safe online interactions.

## 4. Customization Options

During installation, you can choose to include or exclude features like Komodo Secure DNS and cloud-based behavior analysis. The customization menu allows you to select standalone components such as the firewall or antivirus, offering flexibility based on your needs.

## 5. GUI Interface and Control Panel

Upon opening the software, you'll encounter a task manager with options for scanning, updating signatures, viewing quarantined items, and monitoring tasks. The control panel offers quick access to settings and tools, including the kill switch, which is invaluable for process management and malware detection.

## 6. Advanced Settings and Tools

### a. Kill Switch

This tool enables you to terminate or block processes, view file locations, search online, and report suspicious files. It's essential for managing active processes and isolating malicious activities.

### b. Sandbox and Virtual Kiosk

The virtual kiosk feature creates a secure environment for browsing, preventing any harmful code from affecting your system. Files can be safely accessed within this sandboxed area, enhancing protection against threats.

## 7. Malware Removal and Protection

Comodo's tools facilitate malware removal by allowing you to create rescue disks and use the kill switch for persistent infections. The suite also offers enhanced panic protection mode to isolate and neutralize threats effectively.

## 8. Conclusion and Next Steps

In conclusion, Comodo Internet Security Suite is a versatile solution offering multiple layers of security. By following this guide, you can maximize its potential to protect your device from various online threats. For further assistance or additional content, consider subscribing to the Bright Tech Computer Scout channel for more helpful videos.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat you guys can another video here for you in this one we're going to be taking a look at Komodos Internet Security Suite how to download it and install it and set it up so let's have a look at the actual free products page that Komodo do and they do a lot of free software and a lot of it's very good so you can see here Comodo Internet Security this is got everything all in one and it's a very good download and it's free are you going to get a firewall antivirus and the browser and loads of other stuff like Killswitch and all that sort of stuff all embedded into this okay now you can just have the standalone antivirus program or the Comodo firewall if you wish and you can also mix and match these with other types of software like firewall Comodo firewall with avast or something like that and that would be totally fine as well okay so you can run these as a singular download so we're going to go for the comodo internet security here number to install that now get this a question asked all the time what's the best antivirus and what's the best firewall well it's all about your own preference really so stick with what you like and I'm pretty sure having something rather than nothing is the best way to go so here we've got the actual language here I'm just going to stick with that they got a couple of options here we can have an opt in or opt out here Komodo secure DNS I'm gonna leave that ticked and also you can also got the cloud base behavior analysis which I'm also gonna leave ticked as well I'm going to remove this tick but if you wish to leave that in you can do the come down to customize installation and you can see here install antivirus we've also got a Comodo firewall I'm going to take the ticket at geek buddy because I don't want it and going to go to configuration options okay that's fine and the location is fine as well okay so let's go back here and now click on our installation and you can see there's a little box now up on the top right-hand side here we can add stuff to this and also remove stuff from it and I'll show you how to do that in a second here we have our actual GUI interface it's now doing the comodo scan here and it's checking for signature updates you may get this popup whether you're at home to secure to sort the network out so I'm just going to click on I'm at home that will now allow the internet so what we're going to do here now is leave this running in the background and you can see here this will sent it about action to the background and it will run in the background so let's take a look at some of the actual interface at the bottom here we've got scan update virtual kiosk quarantine task manager and if you flick through these you can add these to your little control panel at the top right-hand side here there's also a scan objects here you can drop them straight in and it will scan those so what we can do here is look up the top here and we can right-click on this and we can look at widget now widget means show connect panel I'd want to take that out for the actual Facebook and we can also add other stuff inside here as well if you wish to show status panel and that will show us this as stats panel here which is for applications as you can see so if you click on these it will open these up you can see the actual tasks running the background again this will just don't put up your little control panel advanced control panel here and another one will open this panel up okay now if you look at the task see we can also get to it from clicking on this as well so going to click on that and it will flip that around and now you'll get general tasks so you can see we got scan update view quarantine and view logs an open task manager if we come down to the little tab here okay so that's now initializing kill switch and installing it as you can see that kill switch is an awesome bit of kit now this is all incorporated into your internet security suite here if I just look at what this does ok let me just pull this down here for a second ok so this is our kill switch program as you can see this in itself is worth a video all on its own it's used for killing processes and stuff like that you can actually see here we can kill a process kill and block a process kill a process tree false to terminate delete restart suspend and all that good stuff ok jump to the folder so if you wanted to find out where this was it will take you to that location and to that file so great when you're trying to root out malware and stuff like that you can also do lots of other good stuff with it as well like search online and also send a report as a suspicious file to Komodo itself now I'm not going to go too deep into this because it is a real good tool and it's worthy of its own video you can see verify signature and loads of other good stuff ok you've got loads of tools down about me here we'll go through all this in another video so let me close this off now and we're going to do is bring up our control panel and you can see here we was at the firewall tasks here again we've got a allow application and block application this is where you can allow block applications you just basically open this up and pick the location the program that you want to block and it will block that program or allow it through okay so if you have in trouble this is where you can come for allowing programs and applications stealth ports again block incoming connections and alert incoming connections we've also got manage networks for your actual networks we've also got open Advanced Settings here which is where you can make all the changes to your internet security suite so basically you got user interface here you make changes here take stuff out and leave stuff in if you wish you can disable the widget which is this thing up here an able password and whatnot updates you can set this up to it how often you want it to check for updates every six hours or if you want to shorten that then you can do okay or don't check for updates at all which I would advise you to do log in again self-explanatory stuff really but here you'll have like little tabs at the bottom here when you click on firewall security and you got import/export activate and also remove okay you can right-click on it as well for the same type of thing okay so let's go back to security settings now and look at the antivirus got real-time and you can set this up to how you wish okay I'm going to go through too much of setting this up completely just going to do some basic stuff here again exclusions defense what you're looking for in the defense plus is your hips and just click on that hips their hips settings we want to enable that and you can set this up to how you want to do okay and this is in safe mode at the moment as you can see I need to set this up too paranoid mode if you wish now also we've got a little vivant section down here and I'm going to add those in and this will require a restart this will and you can enable this enhance panic protection mode okay twitch I advise you do now this one really the second one is really for when you're doing malware removal and stuff like that as you can see it tells you exactly what it's doing when you've got an infested machine you can try to get this installed and this will help you remove malware from it also and protect you okay okay here we've got um applications here you can see and you can still do the same thing down a bottom here add edit remove move up and down and purge okay purge means delete or remove okay let me just bring this down here registry protection again automatic startup you get access to these areas here you can see these okay and you can edit it add to registry groups registry entries remove and also so if you edit this you're allowed to edit it import keys again down the bottom here you've got the same functions here for your registry okay that's a behavior block we've got a behavior blocker here partially limited okay and we can do this untrusted okay we're going to put tick in there and it's going to open Auto sandbox unknown applications is a good thing to do okay and now we've got the sandbox here now you can also protect your virtual kiosk with a password if you wish here and you can also see again add edit and remove and purge all the stuff that you put into your sandbox in here okay and your shared space which is what you're going to open up inside your virtual kiosk okay so firewall settings here again pretty much safe mode at the moment you can put it in training mode if you've just got it on the system and you want to go through the motions there you can do that I would leave that on safe mode there okay better going to filter that block fragmented IP traffic unable nti ARP spoofing okay I'm going to leave their their ticks in these down the bottom here we can also create rules for safe applications and then move this down to here same thing I'm going to spend too much time on this bit here but you can do the same thing here okay add and remove mobile rules okay trusted files unrecognized files this will be listed here submitted files the one you've submitted to Komodo and trusted vendors as you build up add to remove you can build up trusted vendors and also trusted files and also unrecognized files okay you can build all this up here okay so let's close that off and click OK here move down to the next tab sandbox tasks okay so this is basically your sandbox tasks ok run virtual kiosk run virtual and also reset set sandbox open up your shared space these are going to open up your shared space where you can put files into this and access these files inside your virtual kiosk ok so this puts something in our shared space so I'm going to open up our shared space here I'm going to put something in it let's put this mail whereby it's a chameleon in there ok and then we're going to open up our virtual kiosk you have to install this now and say yes for this agree to this and installed it so basically this is your virtual kiosk here as you can see and we can go to app market Komodo dragon here Gmail and whatnot so you're in a safe zone here we can flick this over like so and we can look at our shared space and if you look here this is the file's phone penis up there you can see the comedian that's in our shared space we can access that there we just close this off we've got the actual keyboard here if we wish as well it's going to exit out of this now exeed virtualize browser now if I open up quickly kill switch again and you look here because we're browsing on this browser here you can see that we're now fully virtualized and you can see it's virtualized enabled so everything I do here it's going to be safe here and you can see the green square box around it okay that's if you use the virtualized browser now if you come down here you can actually drag these into this location here so you can see it all the time so you can just double click on this you wish or you can double click on these little icons up here and this will open this up ok there's also another area which I wanted to show you which means you can actually right click on this and see game mode down the bottom here this if you want to play games and you want to leave your fire one you'll see it'll go into game mode and also behavior blocker is enabled firewall is enabled and also the antivirus enabled ok you can also add stuff to the widget if you wish which is this thing up the top right side here and you can double click on this and this will open it up as well and also what you can do here is run scan straight from here quick scan full scan rate and scan and also custom scan if you wish and this will relay to do folder scans file scans and more scan options ok ok so here we have our scan objects here and I've got some viruses here all riled up basically and I could drop that straight in there and as you can see it's found that virus on there so what we can do is say no I want to clean it myself it's found the file inside that rar file and we've put it action to clean here and we can apply the selected actions and this will remove this from the system and you can see it deleted that file now if you went on the internet it will do the same thing it will detect those as you're browsing and if I try to open this up and you straight away you can see there it's found that file as I've tried to drag it out of the raw file here again it's detected that file it's the and it's automatically deleted that file the main part of it is left the other crap behind but it's the lead the executable part so let's take a quick look at our sandbox settings and how you run an application inside the sandbox you can do that inside this suite here so we've looked at virtual kiosk let's have a quick look at how to run an application in there so we're going to run malwarebytes inside in there so if you didn't feel safe when you downloaded something off the internet you wanted to run that program in here I know malwarebytes is safe but if you wanted to run something in a sandbox you could do it this way and you can see the green square running outside and this is running in a sandbox and it's safe okay so basically you close that off I can before in this video let's just take one more quick look at the Advanced section here and I'll be covering a lot of this on ammo infested machine and we'll be using this type of setup to kill the infections on that machine and now to go about removing malware infections by using some of the tools that are built into this actual software by creating a rescue disk here using the clear endpoint which is the cleaning essentials tool to get really persistent infections of the system and also we can use kill switch and remove some of those from the system okay now our kill endpoint here we'll cover this in another video when we've got some infections on the system so that's basically about it for this video I think so I hope you enjoyed it my name is Brian from bright tech computer scout UK if you enjoy these videos please remember guys hit that subscribe button show support by rating favorite in all my videos and I'll be making more useful videos again in the future if you think I've missed something out in this video then no comment in the message box below and I'll do my best to answer those questions for you so thanks again guys and thanks for support bye for nowwhat you guys can another video here for you in this one we're going to be taking a look at Komodos Internet Security Suite how to download it and install it and set it up so let's have a look at the actual free products page that Komodo do and they do a lot of free software and a lot of it's very good so you can see here Comodo Internet Security this is got everything all in one and it's a very good download and it's free are you going to get a firewall antivirus and the browser and loads of other stuff like Killswitch and all that sort of stuff all embedded into this okay now you can just have the standalone antivirus program or the Comodo firewall if you wish and you can also mix and match these with other types of software like firewall Comodo firewall with avast or something like that and that would be totally fine as well okay so you can run these as a singular download so we're going to go for the comodo internet security here number to install that now get this a question asked all the time what's the best antivirus and what's the best firewall well it's all about your own preference really so stick with what you like and I'm pretty sure having something rather than nothing is the best way to go so here we've got the actual language here I'm just going to stick with that they got a couple of options here we can have an opt in or opt out here Komodo secure DNS I'm gonna leave that ticked and also you can also got the cloud base behavior analysis which I'm also gonna leave ticked as well I'm going to remove this tick but if you wish to leave that in you can do the come down to customize installation and you can see here install antivirus we've also got a Comodo firewall I'm going to take the ticket at geek buddy because I don't want it and going to go to configuration options okay that's fine and the location is fine as well okay so let's go back here and now click on our installation and you can see there's a little box now up on the top right-hand side here we can add stuff to this and also remove stuff from it and I'll show you how to do that in a second here we have our actual GUI interface it's now doing the comodo scan here and it's checking for signature updates you may get this popup whether you're at home to secure to sort the network out so I'm just going to click on I'm at home that will now allow the internet so what we're going to do here now is leave this running in the background and you can see here this will sent it about action to the background and it will run in the background so let's take a look at some of the actual interface at the bottom here we've got scan update virtual kiosk quarantine task manager and if you flick through these you can add these to your little control panel at the top right-hand side here there's also a scan objects here you can drop them straight in and it will scan those so what we can do here is look up the top here and we can right-click on this and we can look at widget now widget means show connect panel I'd want to take that out for the actual Facebook and we can also add other stuff inside here as well if you wish to show status panel and that will show us this as stats panel here which is for applications as you can see so if you click on these it will open these up you can see the actual tasks running the background again this will just don't put up your little control panel advanced control panel here and another one will open this panel up okay now if you look at the task see we can also get to it from clicking on this as well so going to click on that and it will flip that around and now you'll get general tasks so you can see we got scan update view quarantine and view logs an open task manager if we come down to the little tab here okay so that's now initializing kill switch and installing it as you can see that kill switch is an awesome bit of kit now this is all incorporated into your internet security suite here if I just look at what this does ok let me just pull this down here for a second ok so this is our kill switch program as you can see this in itself is worth a video all on its own it's used for killing processes and stuff like that you can actually see here we can kill a process kill and block a process kill a process tree false to terminate delete restart suspend and all that good stuff ok jump to the folder so if you wanted to find out where this was it will take you to that location and to that file so great when you're trying to root out malware and stuff like that you can also do lots of other good stuff with it as well like search online and also send a report as a suspicious file to Komodo itself now I'm not going to go too deep into this because it is a real good tool and it's worthy of its own video you can see verify signature and loads of other good stuff ok you've got loads of tools down about me here we'll go through all this in another video so let me close this off now and we're going to do is bring up our control panel and you can see here we was at the firewall tasks here again we've got a allow application and block application this is where you can allow block applications you just basically open this up and pick the location the program that you want to block and it will block that program or allow it through okay so if you have in trouble this is where you can come for allowing programs and applications stealth ports again block incoming connections and alert incoming connections we've also got manage networks for your actual networks we've also got open Advanced Settings here which is where you can make all the changes to your internet security suite so basically you got user interface here you make changes here take stuff out and leave stuff in if you wish you can disable the widget which is this thing up here an able password and whatnot updates you can set this up to it how often you want it to check for updates every six hours or if you want to shorten that then you can do okay or don't check for updates at all which I would advise you to do log in again self-explanatory stuff really but here you'll have like little tabs at the bottom here when you click on firewall security and you got import/export activate and also remove okay you can right-click on it as well for the same type of thing okay so let's go back to security settings now and look at the antivirus got real-time and you can set this up to how you wish okay I'm going to go through too much of setting this up completely just going to do some basic stuff here again exclusions defense what you're looking for in the defense plus is your hips and just click on that hips their hips settings we want to enable that and you can set this up to how you want to do okay and this is in safe mode at the moment as you can see I need to set this up too paranoid mode if you wish now also we've got a little vivant section down here and I'm going to add those in and this will require a restart this will and you can enable this enhance panic protection mode okay twitch I advise you do now this one really the second one is really for when you're doing malware removal and stuff like that as you can see it tells you exactly what it's doing when you've got an infested machine you can try to get this installed and this will help you remove malware from it also and protect you okay okay here we've got um applications here you can see and you can still do the same thing down a bottom here add edit remove move up and down and purge okay purge means delete or remove okay let me just bring this down here registry protection again automatic startup you get access to these areas here you can see these okay and you can edit it add to registry groups registry entries remove and also so if you edit this you're allowed to edit it import keys again down the bottom here you've got the same functions here for your registry okay that's a behavior block we've got a behavior blocker here partially limited okay and we can do this untrusted okay we're going to put tick in there and it's going to open Auto sandbox unknown applications is a good thing to do okay and now we've got the sandbox here now you can also protect your virtual kiosk with a password if you wish here and you can also see again add edit and remove and purge all the stuff that you put into your sandbox in here okay and your shared space which is what you're going to open up inside your virtual kiosk okay so firewall settings here again pretty much safe mode at the moment you can put it in training mode if you've just got it on the system and you want to go through the motions there you can do that I would leave that on safe mode there okay better going to filter that block fragmented IP traffic unable nti ARP spoofing okay I'm going to leave their their ticks in these down the bottom here we can also create rules for safe applications and then move this down to here same thing I'm going to spend too much time on this bit here but you can do the same thing here okay add and remove mobile rules okay trusted files unrecognized files this will be listed here submitted files the one you've submitted to Komodo and trusted vendors as you build up add to remove you can build up trusted vendors and also trusted files and also unrecognized files okay you can build all this up here okay so let's close that off and click OK here move down to the next tab sandbox tasks okay so this is basically your sandbox tasks ok run virtual kiosk run virtual and also reset set sandbox open up your shared space these are going to open up your shared space where you can put files into this and access these files inside your virtual kiosk ok so this puts something in our shared space so I'm going to open up our shared space here I'm going to put something in it let's put this mail whereby it's a chameleon in there ok and then we're going to open up our virtual kiosk you have to install this now and say yes for this agree to this and installed it so basically this is your virtual kiosk here as you can see and we can go to app market Komodo dragon here Gmail and whatnot so you're in a safe zone here we can flick this over like so and we can look at our shared space and if you look here this is the file's phone penis up there you can see the comedian that's in our shared space we can access that there we just close this off we've got the actual keyboard here if we wish as well it's going to exit out of this now exeed virtualize browser now if I open up quickly kill switch again and you look here because we're browsing on this browser here you can see that we're now fully virtualized and you can see it's virtualized enabled so everything I do here it's going to be safe here and you can see the green square box around it okay that's if you use the virtualized browser now if you come down here you can actually drag these into this location here so you can see it all the time so you can just double click on this you wish or you can double click on these little icons up here and this will open this up ok there's also another area which I wanted to show you which means you can actually right click on this and see game mode down the bottom here this if you want to play games and you want to leave your fire one you'll see it'll go into game mode and also behavior blocker is enabled firewall is enabled and also the antivirus enabled ok you can also add stuff to the widget if you wish which is this thing up the top right side here and you can double click on this and this will open it up as well and also what you can do here is run scan straight from here quick scan full scan rate and scan and also custom scan if you wish and this will relay to do folder scans file scans and more scan options ok ok so here we have our scan objects here and I've got some viruses here all riled up basically and I could drop that straight in there and as you can see it's found that virus on there so what we can do is say no I want to clean it myself it's found the file inside that rar file and we've put it action to clean here and we can apply the selected actions and this will remove this from the system and you can see it deleted that file now if you went on the internet it will do the same thing it will detect those as you're browsing and if I try to open this up and you straight away you can see there it's found that file as I've tried to drag it out of the raw file here again it's detected that file it's the and it's automatically deleted that file the main part of it is left the other crap behind but it's the lead the executable part so let's take a quick look at our sandbox settings and how you run an application inside the sandbox you can do that inside this suite here so we've looked at virtual kiosk let's have a quick look at how to run an application in there so we're going to run malwarebytes inside in there so if you didn't feel safe when you downloaded something off the internet you wanted to run that program in here I know malwarebytes is safe but if you wanted to run something in a sandbox you could do it this way and you can see the green square running outside and this is running in a sandbox and it's safe okay so basically you close that off I can before in this video let's just take one more quick look at the Advanced section here and I'll be covering a lot of this on ammo infested machine and we'll be using this type of setup to kill the infections on that machine and now to go about removing malware infections by using some of the tools that are built into this actual software by creating a rescue disk here using the clear endpoint which is the cleaning essentials tool to get really persistent infections of the system and also we can use kill switch and remove some of those from the system okay now our kill endpoint here we'll cover this in another video when we've got some infections on the system so that's basically about it for this video I think so I hope you enjoyed it my name is Brian from bright tech computer scout UK if you enjoy these videos please remember guys hit that subscribe button show support by rating favorite in all my videos and I'll be making more useful videos again in the future if you think I've missed something out in this video then no comment in the message box below and I'll do my best to answer those questions for you so thanks again guys and thanks for support bye for now\n"