Online Armor vs Safe`N`Sec, please help-me to make my security suite!

What combination should I make? PG+RegDefend+OnlineArmor or PG+Regdefend+Safe`N`Sec

 

Hi RefJuf

I have not tried Safe 'N' Sec, so cannot commmet.

I have tried/use OnlineArmor and love it. VERY good support when it was in Beta stage [and still is ] and it's working a treat here. There were some issues early on [naturally, it was a Beta] but 99% of those have been resolved and rest being worked on by Mike Nash and his team at TALL EMU

Only advice, trial both, as it's entirely up to you in the long run as what will work on your system.

Cheers, TAS

 

Hi RefJuf,

I would start of slowly and see what you like. There is too much overlap, I think, between Online Armor, Safe N' Sec, and ProcessGuard. If you like to have more control over your executables and what they are doing, I would start with ProcessGuard and see if you like it. If you prefer less transparancy and more automation, then I would start with Online Armor (my preference is Online Armore over Safe N' Sec).

Once you have decided on which anti-executable you want, then the question is whether you want RegDefend for registry protection. Online Armor will eventually have Registry protection but it doesn't have it now. Ditto ProcessGuard. But Safe N' Secure probably has enough for you now, though RegDefend has more extensibility (you can add Tony's and Kents definitions).

BTW, I have ProcessGuard + RegDefend right now, full-time. Online Armor is excellent and I am trialing it, but I am not sure yet whether I really need the overlap with ProcessGuard. Online Armor does provide additional defense over and above PG+RD.

I would recommend that you take it slow and easy. You may change your mind as you become more familiar with these products.

Hope this helps,
Rich

 

Resource usage may be a consideration. I don't use either one YET. But at least one poster at Wilder's reported that OA was resource heavy compared to SafeNsec on his machine.

 

The Hammer,

I have had both installed on my machine for some testing. OA is a little heavier than the current release of SnS, but not inordinately so. Clearly not enough on my machine for it to be a deciding factor. I noticed mainly when I used WindowWasher in cleaning out things - it did slow that down quite perceptibly. In ordinary use the slowdown seemed very modest.

As Peter notes, OA does a great job with Active-X material. In my case I really want to minimize the family needing to answer pop-ups and prefer SnS's somewhat more parsimonious approach, so I'm staying with SnS, am looking forward to the version now in beta, but I'm also keeping an eye on OA. Both are solid applications with somewhat different slants on things.

Cost-in-use, at current prices, is neutral at three years with continual updates. The key difference, if you do not maintain a current license, is that OA will continue work, while SnS will not without a current activation key. Since I plan to stay current if I use the product, that doesn't matter to me, but I could see that it would to some.

Blue