Comodo IceDragon replacement browser for Mozilla FireFox.

[Crabber85]

After one of my friends who is getting his license to be an IT tech told me about Comodo Dragon and IceDragon secure browsers I just had to check them out and since I've always been a huge fan of Mozilla FireFox I decided to check out Comodo's version of it and I've been using it for just under four hours and have fallen completely in love with it, its lighting fast and even doubles as an independent virus scanner so you can scan websites before you visit them to see if they are hosting any kind of infections or exploits.This browser uses the free build license of Mozilla FireFox so it actually uses some of the old FireFox interface and all of its addons and plugins, you can even set it up to port all of your favorites, bookmarks and saved passwords over from FireFox, this particular feature still isn't fully functional because this browser is still being developed but the developer is aware of the issue and is working on a hot fix to patch the issue.This browser and its sibling basic Dragon which is Comodo's version of Google Chrome are not for those users who are looking for an easy to use basic browser that doesn't need to be configured in any way, but I highly recommend these browsers to the more experienced users who like being able to tinker with the settings and are looking for a more secure browser alternative that is easily locked down with high security settings.Comodo uses its own proprietary anti-malware DNS addresses for its two browsers so that your connection to the internet is as secure as its going to get, basically by routing your traffic through their DNS servers they can actually stop you from going to an active malicious website or domain before you get there and can even prevent certain black-hole, black hat and back door exploits from ever getting to your browser which means these exploits don't have chance at actually infecting your machine using this unique DNS setup.Just about every kind of virus known to man uses a method of propagation where the virus hijacks your web browser and then reconfigures it to use a specific set of DNS addresses that are used to send out infections and then establishes a call back loop so that it can keep downloading copies of itself and other types of viruses from the very servers it originated from this is called a loop propagation and is very common so the idea here is that if you use Comodo's DNS addresses they can detect when a virus is trying to reconfigure these addresses in your browser and attempting to setup a call back loop which gives Comodo the ability to stop the reconfiguration completely denying the infection access to its own DNS servers thereby preventing its loop propagation before it ever has a chance to start.This makes cleaning an infected machine increasingly easier because the viruses have no way of being able to propagate or even call back to their home server to get the infections they were designed to download that would have locked your GUI or Graphical User Interface preventing you from running or installing an anti-virus or anti-malware program if you didn't already have one.Another benefit to using Comodo's anti-malware DNS service is that they actually have a list of known attack, forgery, phishing and malware sites that are automatically blocked via their DNS service which further reduces your chances of becoming infected in the first place.

[Crabber85]

The one thing that Comodo needs to fix and should have done so in their last update to their browsers is an SSL3 certificate issue that leaves both browsers vulnerable to the Poodle Attack and yes I'm for real, its a type of attack that basically allows an attacker to force the browser to use a lower secure encryption type which is less secure and easier to decrypt so that they can see your log-in credentials.There is a tutorial out there on the web that shows you how to set the SSL settings in either one of Comodo's browsers so that they never use SSL3 only SSL1 or 2 which at the time of writing this are not vulnerable to the Poodle Attack.You have to type about:config in the main search bar, it will bring you to a page that says something along the lines of if you change any settings it may void your warranty just click the I'll be careful tab, then type security.tls.version.min and then double click the pref name that appears and then change the setting from 0 to 1 then click ok to enforce TLS.You will need to repeat the above steps but this time type in security.tls.version.max double click the pref name that appears and then change the setting from 1 to 3 then click ok to enforce TLS.Once this is done you have completely secured your Comodo browser from the Poodle Attack SSL3 vulnerability.Hopefully the developer will patch this soon with an upcoming update but for now this patch has to be implemented by the user manually.