External Device Control Settings
- Device control lets you block access to external devices like USB sticks and external drives
- You can also define exclusions for selected devices. The selected devices will be allowed to connect, but all others will be blocked
Configure device control
- Open Comodo Client Security
- Click 'More' > 'Preferences' > 'Device Control':
- Enable Device Control - Prohibits
access to external storage devices like USB cards and external
drives. You can define exclusions to allow selected devices to
connect. (Default = Disabled)
- Log detected devices - All device connection / disconnection events, whether allowed or blocked, are added to CCS logs. You can view the logs in the 'Log Viewer' module. (Default = Enabled)
- Click 'More' > 'View Antivirus Events' > 'More' > 'Device Control Events'
- See Device Control Logs for more details.
- Exclusions - Add exceptions to device
control. Devices specified here are allowed access to your computer
even if 'Device Control' is active. For
example, if your company uses USB tokens to authenticate remote VPN
connections, you should create exceptions for those tokens.
You can specify the exceptions in two ways:
Connect a device then create an exclusion for it
Note - You need to create your exceptions before enabling device control.
- Make sure the external device is connected to the computer
- Open Comodo Client Security
- Click 'More' > 'Preferences' > 'Device Control':
- Click the 'Add' button then choose 'Existing Device' from the drop-down
The screen lists all devices that are currently connected to your computer.
- Select the devices you want to add to exclusions and click 'OK'
- The device is added to the exclusions:
- Repeat the process to exclude more devices
- Click 'OK' in for your settings to take effect
Specify custom devices to be excluded
- Click 'More' > 'Preferences' > 'Device Control':
- Click the 'Add' button beside 'Exclusions' then choose 'Custom Device' from the drop-down
- Enter the vendor identifier and product identifier in the respective areas. Example: VID0951&PID1643. You can use wildcard character to add a series of devices to exclusions. E.g. VID0951&PID16*
- Click 'Apply' in the 'Add Custom Device' dialog
- Click 'OK' in the 'Preferences' dialog for your settings to take effect