Online Armor Personal Firewall Free Edition 4.0.0.10

2.7 out of 5 stars 2.7 (196 votes)

(November 4, 2009)

Windows 2000/XP / Freeware / 4,076 downloads

Online Armor Personal Firewall uses powerful new technology to actively detect threats to your PC. Rather than merely comparing the signature of an intruder to known threats in a database, and missing new and unknown threats, it intelligently recognizes and identifies malicious behavior and immediately targets the malicious program or intrusion attempt for exclusion from your PC before it ever has an opportunity to become a threat.

Online Armor provides you with real protection in real time by immediately recognizing and stopping attempted, unwanted or malicious behavior by other programs, known or unknown, whether through email, surfing the Internet, or other online activities. Because it protects by analyzing any program's behavior, rather than merely searching for a specific known threat from a limited database, it identifies and removes malicious programs missed by other products and protects against new threats as they are created.

The Free Edition does not contain all of the Online Armor features.

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  1. 1 out of 5 stars
    Djuzan Belic

    Reviewing 3.5.0.49 (Oct 17, 2009)

    All lies and bulls***.
    No freeware at all but NAGWARE.

  2. 3 out of 5 stars
    CyberDoc999

    Reviewing 3.5.0.49 (Oct 6, 2009)

    you are not testing your software firewall with Shields Up.... you are testing your hardware firewall
    and yes 99.9% of everyone has a hardware firewall.....
    a software firewall is only good for almost nothing

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    Sammo

    Reviewing 3.5.0.32 (Sep 21, 2009)

    This is the best free firewall. The new version now fully protects from keyloggers. It gets 99% 10+ from the Matousec tests even though the latest results are yet to be posted - http://www.matousec.com/...y-challenge/results.php

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    jono7777

    Reviewing 3.0.0.190 (Jul 29, 2009)

    I recently installed Online Armor Free Edition. I had read the blurb, and given it came out 4th in a test of both PAID and free firewalls, outperformed Zone Alarm Free by a good margin and was allegedly light on resources, it seemed like a good plan to at least try it.

    Firstly, it was easy enough to install. I didn't mess about and just went for recommended install, and it was on. It asked me about outgoing programs at first - I clicked on ' allow / trust ' etc each time, and that was it.

    I gave it a quick blast on Shields Up and no problems, fully stealthed etc. It is certainly lighter than ZA and Comodo. I don't get any reminders now as it knows what is a goodie and that's the end of the story. All in all, the whole procedure has been a doddle and I'm pretty pleased that I went over to it. My reasoning is that if I can have a good firewall that offers better protection than ZA, is lighter and also free, then it's a no brainer. I tried Comodo and it was just too intrusive for my liking and slowed things down irritatingly. Who needs that for maybe a very slim protection advantage?
    So far, I'm absolutely satisfied. I had Kaspersky firewall a while ago, along with the anti virus, but while it was a decent program, the whole Kaspersky thing is just a little too highly strung for me.

    I'm happy with this nice n easy, light, yet powerful and very well respected firewall, and the fact that it's free is even more praiseworthy.

  5. 3 out of 5 stars
    Jtaylor83

    Reviewing 3.0.0.190 (Jun 28, 2009)

    I had it for over 3 months and it was all buggy. It was time to get rid of it and I have to wait for avast! 5 to come out which supposed to have a very good firewall bundled with the antivirus and I hope avast! 5's firewall is better than this junk.

    It blocked some of the windows drivers, the Registry Console, and the some of the components for Internet Explorer.

    This is not a recommended firewall to try out people.

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