How is the Firewall taking priority over other applications when booting?

[mikecu]

How is the Firewall taking priority over other applications when the PC first boots? How is the priority given,is it through a kernel driver?

I’m using Comodo Firewall and I see that the Spotify app is loading before Comodo loads;well it seems like that since the Spotify panel appears before the Comodo one.I mean the Firewall has to start first before other applications can access the internet,isn’t that so?

That might be ok for Spotify but what if there is a rogue app that gets access to the internet before the firewall does? How can you prevent that?

[captainsticks]

Hi mikecu,
See the quote below.

Thanks.

@EricJH post:2

The processes that protect your computer, Comodo Internet Security Helper Service (cmdagent.exe) and the packet filter driver, load very early in the boot process and before the network connection gets released. When the tray icon gets loaded the protection is already running.