Hi Kyle.
(from South Park, Colorado?) As you say yourself on the COMODO forum, these features are included in avast! Home which is given away for free, so as a "marketing ploy" it very nearly approaches the ingenuity and cleverness of the Underpants Gnomes!
"Step 1. Get underpants....... step 3. Profit."Seriously, nearly all the replies there answer your question, especially
this one from
sded but your later comments indicate that you either didn't understand or accept it.
You say you want only facts but on this issue there are none to be had. Your theory that web shields and email scanners offer no extra protection, however well supported by your experience, can only ever be considered to be a hypothesis. As such it is always possible that some equally valid subsequent experience could show it to be entirely or partly incorrect, meaning that it then must be rejected or modified.
Note:Absolute proof is usually impossible. It means proving a universal negative, which requires universal knowledge, which is not generally available.
e.g. It was once hypothesized that all swans are white, a useful working theory... which fell when the black swans were "discovered" in Australia. Maybe there are some green ones somewhere too!
Needless to say, as I write this I have the web shield, network shield and IMAP email scanning on. (Now that is a fact.)
cheers