Comments on: Online Armor Firewall – What’s Your Opinion?

By: Forza

Forza — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:58:44 +0000

Online Armor is a good firewall.

The only reason I uninstalled it is because I had long term problems with Avast antivirus 4.8 and Online Armor 3.0.0.190.

One of them had to go because neither software company had a fix. Apart from the compatibility issues between Avast and OA I have nothing bad to say about OA.

By: Benjamin Yakubu

Benjamin Yakubu — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:39:36 +0000

In a space of 5days, I have tried Online Armor, Zone Alarm 8, Comodo, Sunbelt, Outpost I always keep uninstalling and reinstalling Online Armor (Free) – it has given me no reason to complain at all.

Zone Alarm slows my PC at startup so much its horrible. It slows down my net access too (I guess with a little tweaking of its settings this may be fixed – but on first use such behaviour is not very nice)

Sunbelt was too slow to respond. My rig is quite fast so its the app.

Outpost was interfering with my connection a little bit too much, noticed great improvements after I shut down the app!

Comodo is cool, almost as good as OA Free but only issue is you have to set many rules to get a good program working flawlessly and securely. Or you simply let Comodo do it for you… Not always spot on.

Now I am back to Online Armor and sticking to it…

Cheers

Note: My above comments may not apply to everyone who installs and use the firewalls, as I suspect my version of Windows XP may have a number of stuff installed that could affect the performance of the firewalls – hoping to upgrade XP to SP3 soon. Overall Online Armor performed excellently even in those conditions.

By: Laz

Laz — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:19:33 +0000

I have been using the paid version since Scott’s review.
The pop-up’s subsided once I used all the software on
the machine, and the firewall was acclimatized. Now only new installations invoke the warnings. I find the “Banking Mode” to be most gratifying when dealing with financial institutions, or making on line purchases. The only complaint I have is the use of miniature fonts in the pop-ups, when presented.
Used in conjunction with Spyware Doctor, the combination provides a secure environment (To date!)
Previously I used Comodo, which is an excellent product as well, but I find OA to be easier on the resources.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:24:34 +0000

I tried OA several months ago after reading the great reviews. Unfortunately, it had some conflicts with my system (as sometimes happens with firewalls). Uninstalling didn’t completely remove it, and I had to do some searching online to find the remnants I needed to remove (I continued to have occasional crashes). I switched to Comodo, which has worked perfectly for me.

If Online Armor doesn’t cause any problems on your system and you get a clean reading from ShieldsUp, then go for it. If you have problems like I did, give Comodo a shot.

By: abbynormal

abbynormal — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:47:27 +0000

I’ve been using OA (free version) for a couple of years, and I can tell you, when properly configured, you don’t get constant popups asking for (traffic) permission.

The only times I get a popup asking me to allow or deny, is when new software is getting installed (which is good – it keeps rogue software from installing itself, without your knowledge).

Last time I looked, OA (free) passed all the leak tests at Matousec; It scored better than other better known and popular firewalls.

In short, OnlineArmor rules…!!!

By: earlwallace

earlwallace — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:40:40 +0000

I downloaded beta version 3 for vista (not sure it will be free, trial version beta for 30 days}. So far I have found it technologically superior to any of the most popular firewalls out in the cloud. I recommend it to my readers.

Earlwallace