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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 7 32-bit, Windows XP
- Date added: November 05, 2009
- Total Downloads: 517,120
- Downloads last week: 2,945
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 316 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on November 24, 2009
Online Armor has a professional feel that is typical of freeware versions of advanced security tools, pared down to its firewall options. The installation is blazingly fast, taking less than 30 seconds from double-clicking on the installer to running the firewall. Once installed, Online Armor defaults to running its installation wizard, which it calls a Safety Check.
In addition to the firewall, which configures as much as possible during the start-up wizard so you're not bothered later, Online Armor comes with a keylogger guard, tamper protection, malicious script and worm protection, and limited autostart protection. The paid versions offer more, such as antivirus and anti-malware protection, phishing filters, online banking protection, and e-mail filtering. Even with these limitations, if you're not satisfied with the recently much-improved Windows firewall, Online Armor competently defends you from a wide range of sophisticated attacks.
Publisher's description
From Tall Emu :Online Armor is a powerful personal firewall, with HIPS and a host of other security features to keep your PC clear of infections and running smoothly. Online Armor is designed to be easy to use for beginners and offers powerful performance.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 316 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Online Armor Free 4.0.0.10
"A VERY GOOD FIREWALL, BUT..."
Pros: Easy to use.
Cons: It's not compatible with AVG. I had to install a new anit virus.
Summary: It's one of the best firewalls and it worked really good until I did a program update. One of the files in the update contained a trojan rendering it useless.
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Version: Online Armor Free 4.0.0.10
Pros: Easy to set up. If you scan regularly for virus and spy ware infestations, use the wizard and select "trust everything on this computer." After set up, set program to notify you if it thinks something should be blocked later.
Cons: None so far.
Summary: Very easy to use. Best free firewall. does not conflict with other software.
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0 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Online Armor Free 4.0.0.10
"Online Armor Free 4.0 causes severe problems with AVG"
Pros: Good firewall for thorough protection.
Cons: Online Armor Free 4.0 essentially deactivates AVG, but this is inadvertant. Nevertheless the active part of AVG will nlot run with version 4, even though version 3.5 had no such difficulty. Took me three days to discover the problem source.
Summary: Would give the firewall excellent marks, but until it can coexist with AVG it gets an F. Have used the predecessors for a long time and WAS very satisfied, even to the point of bragging (and I have a big mouth).
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Online Armor Free 4.0.0.10
Pros: Works like a firewall should
Cons: Not any cons
Summary: I had Comodo firewall and It was always asking the same questions over. So glad I found Online Armor
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Online Armor Free 4.0.0.10
Pros: Everything
Cons: None cons whatsoever
Summary: It has everything that other shareware firewalls have, only it actually integrates into your system because it has an engine that analyses every program you have installed, and uses its database to determine whether to allow a program to run or not,... read more >>
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