Comodo has announced the commercial release of Trustix Enterprise Firewall version 4.8, (TEF) a free enterprise class LINUX-based firewall solution. Trustix Enterprise Firewall monitors network traffic and protects the network against unauthenticated traffic or login attempts which could inject Trojans, worms, or infected files into the network. This commercial version builds on the previous BETA release of this solution and incorporates a new anti-SPAM module for improved performance and security.

This release claims to add important new technology such as DSPAM, Content Filtering, High Availability & Load Balancer, Antivirus, and Intrusion Detection system that improve the efficiency of TEF.

Additional firewall security related features and functions include packet-filtering enabling TEF to act as a router to accelerate data transmission; Command-line scanner; virus database auto updater, virus scanner C library and on-access scanning; built-in support for various archive formats such as - Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS and others, almost all mail file formats, ELF executables and popular document formats including MS Office and MacOffice files, HTML, RTF and PD; executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others; and fully-featured packet-filtering router with advanced capabilities.