Free Comodo Memory Firewall adds another critical layer of security to home and business PC’s by monitoring for and preventing most types of buffer overflow attacks. These attacks occur when a malicious program or script addresses more data to its memory buffer than it can store. The goal of most attacks is to destabilize the system then install malware onto the victim PC in order to execute a range of attacks such as identity and data theft.

The product is aimed for system administrators as well as desktop users to protect their systems and detects suspicious code executions in the stack or the heap portions of the memory.

Comodo Memory Firewall detects the following types of attack:

• Detection of Buffer Overflows which occur in the STACK memory,
• Detection of Buffer Overflows which occur in the HEAP memory,
• Detection of ret2libc attacks,
• Detection of corrupted/bad SEH Chains

System Requirements:

Operating Systems:

• Windows Vista (Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions)
• Windows XP (Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions)
• Windows Server 2003 SP1 (32 bit and 64 bit versions)

Hardware:

• RAM (64 MB)
• Hard Disk Space required is 4MB for 32-bit OS and 8MB for 64-bit OS