Humpty Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Saw this post over at Wilders offering a free version of Online Armour by the developer. It's spoken of quite highly over there but I won't be trying it as I prefer my own setup ATM. Some may be interested. Online Armour Offer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tunerz Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Mike said the free version still has the activation thingy code in it, but still worth the shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 12, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 12, 2007 People should read about it before blindly downloading and installing it Comparison of free vs paid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sputnik Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Comparison of free vs paid. Apparrently the comparison is a bit out of date Ceci n'est pas une signature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 12, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 12, 2007 Apparrently the comparison is a bit out of date I read that on Wilders too. There's nothing like a surprise, it's a free mystery install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted October 12, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 12, 2007 I have been a beta tester of Online Armor for almost a year. The comparison of free as opposed to paid is outdated. Mike Nash is doing a lot of work at the moment to get the info up dated. The firewall is very good, and most things are designed to just run without much user imput. It had a great result in the last leak test results. The 2 OA processes running amount to about 8000k each. I have no problems running it with avira, avg anti spy, and superantispyware. Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimemy Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 What is Online Armor Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 12, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 12, 2007 What is Online Armor Thanks Security software, you can see what it is here: http://www.online-armor.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimemy Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 Ok thank you How good is it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
login123 Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 Thank you, Humpty. The CCleaner SLIM version is always released a bit after any new version; when it is it will be HERE :-) Pssssst: ... It isn't really a cloud. Its a bunch of big, giant servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted October 13, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 13, 2007 I tried the beta of this a while ago(It was the full version.). It was ok, I remember thinking it was a pretty easy to use firewall. I'm sure they've fixed it by now but it used to conflict with AVG free and it has some kind of problems if you went into advanced mode(again this was a long time ago so its probably fixed). If someone tries it, do me a favor and post a picture of its ram usage with process explorer or the task manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted October 13, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 13, 2007 See post 6 rridgely in this thread. Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted October 13, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 13, 2007 See post 6 rridgely in this thread. In my defense it was like 3AM when I posted that. Thanks hazlenut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUSHER Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 People should read about it before blindly downloading and installing it Comparison of free vs paid. Amazing!, there are people who haven't heard of Online Armor?? Talk about the ignorance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badcompany Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 Hello Forum, I moved from Comodo FW to Online-Armor FW, This is a super FW, very easy to set-up and the support is far superior compared to Comodo. Just try it , You won't be disappointed. Badcompany. Dr.Web Security Space / SAS.Pro./ WinPatrol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 13, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 13, 2007 Amazing!, there are people who haven't heard of Online Armor?? Talk about the ignorance... I've heard of it, it's just not my kind of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted October 14, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 14, 2007 Ok I tried it on my laptop since its the only one I would even consider running a 3rd party firewall on. The installation process is pretty nice. It installs and then oddly enough scans your start menu for programs that it recognizes as safe and unsafe.(I sorta remember it doing this the first time I tried it, but its been a long time) Then it asks you if you trust all of the ones that it doesn't recognize and I guess will identify bad ones(which I obviously cant test on my own computer. ). This process is cool because you wont be bombarded with pop ups at start up the first time(I've seen a few crappy firewalls actually crash the whole computer because they stop processes like that). Things I like: -Very straight forward and easy to use. Because of the way it checks you programs at installation you should never even get a notification from it unless you install something new or if you get a virus trying to connect out. - Not bad resource wise. Like hazelnut said its only about 13mb. When you first boot up its about 25mb but it goes down after a few minutes. - Allows me to turn off annoying features like "boot screen", "pop up when autotrusted program runs", and "use annoying blinking task tray icon". Some firewalls still dont do this. - I went to a wired connection to my modem(bypassing my router firewall) and ran a test a grc. I ran the scans and it passed with true stealth, so at least I know its working. Things I dont like: - It doesn't get detected properly in the security center in xp. Instead of saying "Online Armour is on" it just says the general "one or more firewalls is on" message. Also I checked the specific firewall setting and it didn't turn off the windows firewall. Not a massive problem but still something they should fix. Actually as I wrote this I just disabled the windows firewall and now it says "online armor is on" in the security center. But they should still do this by default. - I cant seem to find anything that would enable/disable network file sharing. I have it turned on because I will every now and then get files from here on my desktops but then I would "disable all exceptions" with the windows firewall. Maybe I'm just over looking it but I don't see anything that would control it. Whats up with the virus scanner thing it has? I assume its not running all the time but what good is it if it doesn't update?(I dont seen an update button anywhere.) I have antivir installed at the moment and I haven't noticed any conflicts. So to wrap up my review: This is a pretty nice program but there are a few things holding it back. I'm not sure if these things are just not in the free version or just not there(or maybe I'm missing the option) but in order to make this the ultimate user friendly program I would have an easy way to toggle file sharing. A simple button would suffice but what is really nice is when they will allow me to set up trusted networks where it will automatically enable/disable it depending on where I connect. If it does the above this firewall would pretty much be exactly what I would want in a firewall because I could give it to someone with almost no computer experience and trust it not to cause problems. It would basically be the windows firewall with outbound protection and a database of trusted programs so that it doesn't prompt you on every little thing. It does have a couple of more advanced features but its not stuff I or probably most people need to fool with.(I've been using the windows firewall after all. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDemolition Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 - It doesn't get detected properly in the security center in xp. Instead of saying "Online Armour is on" it just says the general "one or more firewalls is on" message. Also I checked the specific firewall setting and it didn't turn off the windows firewall. Not a massive problem but still something they should fix. Actually as I wrote this I just disabled the windows firewall and now it says "online armor is on" in the security center. But they should still do this by default. services.msc > disable Security Center. it's a waste of resources along with Windows Firewall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted October 14, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 14, 2007 services.msc > disable Security Center. it's a waste of resources along with Windows Firewall No. The security center has one useful feature and that is the fact that it will notify you if your av or firewall isn't on. For instance antivir didnt start up properly 2 days ago and I wouldn't have known it if it wasn't for that message. I rebooted and it started up right and no big deal. Was this a massive thing to me? Not really because I dont even need to have an av installed anyway but to someone who doesn't reboot their computer(like I do on my desktops) it could have been a real problem if their av wasn't on and they didnt know it. Besides enabling/disabling it makes absolutiely no change in system performance from what I've seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnDemolition Posted October 14, 2007 Share Posted October 14, 2007 i personally don't like it. when i used it, it complained too much about everything. in the end, i disabled both the security center and the windows firewall leaving me with a smile on my face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted October 14, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 14, 2007 The security center should only come up with a possible of 3 thing: 1. Firewall is not on 2. AV is not installed or not updated(another thing I forgot.) 3. Auto updates is not on. All 3 of which I think are good for average users. The above are 3 big steps to avoid malware problems. I dont know what kind of problems you were having with the windows firewall but I've never seen anything go wrong with it on any computer(no frantic calls/emails about something not working because of it either. ). Its basic but enough for most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 14, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 14, 2007 The Windows Security Center is good to have and leave on! If someone is using an unrecognized antivirus or firewall they can be individually changed to not monitored in Security Center so that it will stop alerting that no antivirus, and no firewall software is installed. If uninstalling a third-party firewall that had disabled Windows Firewall during setup, and hasn't re-enabled it during uninstall Security Center is the only alert that will display a notification that your security is lacking a very critical layer of protection. Which is another reason to track installations with Total Uninstall, or ZSoft Uninstaller as they will undo the disabling of Windows Firewall in such cases when using their tracked installation to more fully remove an application. One thing I like about AVG Anti-Virus is that it has its own built in faulty component alerts that will notify if something isn't working which makes it a definite winner in my book on older OSes without Security Center. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 14, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 14, 2007 Online Armor has one of the best easy to use two-way firewalls I've ever used period! It pasts with flying colours many online firewall tests. I wish they'd make the firewall component a separate program altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators hazelnut Posted October 14, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 14, 2007 Glad you like it Andavari, I don't use the OA +AV version (which uses the kapersky engine) I have the firewall one with just a minimised version of an av, OA using it's own smaller database, so I use avira with it. However it plays nicely with all the av's. Support contact https://support.ccleaner.com/s/contact-form?language=en_US&form=general or support@ccleaner.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted October 14, 2007 Moderators Share Posted October 14, 2007 Glad you like it Andavari, I don't use the OA +AV version (which uses the kapersky engine) I have the firewall one with just a minimised version of an av, OA using it's own smaller database, so I use avira with it. However it plays nicely with all the av's. I'm most thrilled with the firewall. All that other protection it has doesn't really suit me like the Program Guard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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