Publisher's Description
From Emsisoft:
Online Armor is a powerful security software that protects your computer from unwanted external access. It prevents hackers from accessing your computer, stops malicious programs invading into your computer and sending your data over the internet, protects you during your online banking and transactions, and safeguards your identity. The software is easy to install and manage, and does not slow down your computer performance. The freeware version has slightly limited functionality and no automatic updates.
What's new in this version:
- File & Registry Shield: Users can create rules to limit the access of certain application groups to specified files, folders or registry keys.
- Completely reworked GUI: Online Armor 5.0 was adapted to the design of the other Emsisoft products and shows a lot of usage simplifications. Additionally the readability of alarm windows was optimized.
- Improved self-protection on x86 and x64 systems.
- Over 400 detail improvements based on user and tester feedback. See all new features
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All versions:
3.6 starsout of 531 votes
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Current version:
3.0 starsout of 53 votes
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"Non-functional"
Version: Online Armor Free 5.0
Pros
None whatsoever
Cons
Killed my machine like nothing before it. Lasted 12 hours on my PC.
Summary
I would never use a product by this company again
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"EXCELLENT protection"
Version: Online Armor Free 5.0
Pros
Very user friendly
Cons
None at the moment
Summary
It fully passed the Gibson leak test. I also like how it runs seamlessly in the background. You start with a learning curve from the program and then your set to go. I have the free version on my home computer. Tested it on twenty computers at work. And it performed EXCELLENTLY. I highly recommend it. :)
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"Online Armor Free works very well."
Version: Online Armor Free 5.0
Pros
Free,works in the background, easy to setup.
Cons
When downloading and installing new or updated software, the learning mode is a bit of a pain. However, that is what a good firewall does in order to learn about trusted software etc..
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"Excellent Fire Wall! Ver 5.1.0.1331"
Version: Online Armor Free 5.0
Pros
O-A Free was the top rated fire wall by http://www.matousec.com/ until a business agreement dispute, which caused Matousec to remove O-A Free from their testing.
Now that the HIPS profiling is finished,performance is great.Cons
For several hours after upgrading from V 5.0 to VER 5.1.0.1331, O-A was profiling the activities on the machine and slowed the whole machine down for about 3 sec out of each 8 sec. Then abruptly, the performance returned to normal.
Summary
When I installed O-A 5.1.01331it was initially a resource hog, making on of my 2 core processors 80% busy for about 3 sec. our of every 7-8 sec. After a number of hours of that this activity stopped. Checking task manager showed that the O-A program oasrv.exe was the culprit. Since the hogging activity stopped oasrv.exe has consumed only a very small amount of cpu time and my computer response time has been very good.
Obviously you are doing something wrong to be having those complaints.
My guess is that O-A was in a learning mode, which is documented for the product, and once that was finished, response time went back to normal.
Updated on Oct 20, 2011
A) did you turn off your machines native fire wall?
B) Did you add the program path of your A-V to O-A, and visa-versa.
I haven't had a single problem withe O-A 5.0, but 5.1.0.1331 does consume a lot of resource for an hour or so while it profiles your machine.
You could be experiencing the machine profiling of the HIPS process....
When I installed O-A 5.1.01331it was initially a resource hog, making one of my 2 core processors 80% busy for about 3 sec. out of every 7-8 sec. After a number of hours of that this activity stopped. Checking task manager showed that the O-A program oasrv.exe was the culprit. Since the hogging activity stopped oasrv.exe has consumed only a very small amount of cpu time and my computer response time has been very good. -
"Resource hog - my laptop ground to a halt."
Version: Online Armor Free 5.0
Pros
Seems to be very secure.
Cons
Even after the initial learning period my laptop became so slow I had to uninstall to make it usable again.
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"Brilliant & proficient"
Version: Online Armor Free 5.0
Pros
I have the 2 versions both the free version and the Premium version and they both perform flawlessly, the pop ups can sometimes be a little annoying but it's only doing it's job but t Armour is the best.
Cons
None at all
Summary
Free version is good but the premium version is better.
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"Oh my god!"
Version: Online Armor Free 5.0
Pros
None at this time.
Cons
Not recommended for winXP SP3. Totally buggered .dll files.
Summary
Might be ok for newer operating systems. Left gapping holes in winXP SP3 systems.
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"Just didn't work for me..."
Version: Online Armor Free 5.0
Pros
It seemed to work, I guess.
Cons
It slowed down my computer to the point that I couldn't do anything on the internet, so what's the point of having it. I would tell it to trust a program and it would ignore the action and pop up windows would come up every 3 seconds.
Summary
It is possible that I just didn't know how to work this program. I am not as computer literate as others so I will say that maybe the program would have worked fine if I had known more about how to negotiate the program itself.
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"Didnt boot up after install"
Version: Online Armor Free 5.0
Pros
Free, thats it.
Cons
Took ages to install,It had to do a 30 minute scan of my pc, then restarted pc, Waited waited and waited.I waited 10 minutes still never booted up.Had to start in Safe Mode and uninstall it.
Summary
Ok its free, but it did not give me the chance to use it at all.
Used another firewall instead.
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"Not for Win7-64"
Version: Online Armor Free 5.0
Pros
***none***
Cons
Unstable on Win7 - 64
Summary
It installs on Win7-64 but does not run properly. On first install I got a error message that it cannot initiate - on second install, after running it, there was no access to It's interface and did not show up in systray - (even checked in the hidden icon area and it was not there) - task mgr. said it was running but no way to control it or access it in any way.
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