Online Armor 5.0 RC available now

Nope,i'm an "old dog" for OA.And never had these issues with previous versions.
About BufferZone,i really don't know.I will try later this week to do a clean OA install,without any security or virtualization program.

 

OA Free RC2 - first observations:
- nice and more professional interface
- I think more options and features
- no freezes of system
- no conflicts with other programs
- and especially with other security apps...Avast Free AV and SpyShelter
- resource usage (CPU/RAM KB/page file KB) - 4 processes
oacat.exe - 0/2148/3616
oahlp.exe - 0/1024/9608
oasrv.exe - 2K/s/8192/27720
oaui.exe - 0/8192/16944

 

Does this version support vista 64 bit? Other Emsisoft products are compatible with vista x64.

 

Have they updated the interface from RC1 to RC2? Interface in RC1 was in the right direction, but with minor errors + the notification when a program tries to connect to internect was the same as in Online Armor 4.5 and didnt fit the new layout at all.

 

I have not had a RC 1...OA was the last time on my computer about a year ago and RC2 is the first of its installation at this time. You're right ... in fact the colors of messages does not correspond to the new design.

 

Thanks mate Small things like these are not crucial but it annoys me as a graphical designer. When redoing the GUI, they should have a plan and do it 100% instead of 80%. If it dosent get any better, they should fire their designer and hire me instead

 

That, (IMHO), is a good direction for an HIPs.
Good to see them adding protection that is actually (IMHO) needed, rather than chasing leak_tests.

- Stem

 

hopefully experts will finally compile which registry and file to protect
I'm lost to which and how to protect it properly

 

I would think that they will add rules for the final product.

Does OA allow the saving/exporting/loading of the files/reg rules? I know I should check myself, but dont have time at the moment.

- Stem

 

from what I see it doesn't have that capability just yet
we had to add it manually one by one

Ps: if u wonder, screen shot can be seen of the first page

 

I find the responsiveness of programs that are Unknown to OA (or are set as Untrusted) to be abysmal because of OA's HIPS (opposed to other HIPS which are quick). Example, save the following as a .vbs file (benign, displays system info/phys mem info):

OA is in Advanced mode (should be reproducible with Standard as well). Answer the popups as Allow and remember decision (not "trust this program"!). Time how long it takes to display separate information between clicking OK on the VBScript window.
On my system (XP SP3) it takes 4-5 seconds (!) instead of, well, instantly (talking about milliseconds)
If the file is set as Trusted it displays the info instantly, as it should.

Edit: can someone try to reproduce this, especially if you have RocketDock installed?

 

Online Armor 5.0 RC

We would like to see how version 5.0 stacks up against competition...

 

15 minutes ago..RC3 is ready

"What has changed since the last RC:

* A few GUI tweaks (license dialog simplifications, changed order of OK and Cancel buttons in some dialogs etc.).
* Fixed an incompatibility that prevented applications sandboxed by Sandboxie from loading certain DLLs correctly.
* Fixed a problem that prevented certain GDI APIs from being monitored correctly on Windows 7 x86 SP1.
* Several translation fixes.

Known problems:

* The setup may offer you a trial version although it is no longer available on your system.
* The translations may be incomplete at the moment.
* Running Chrome inside a Sandboxie sandbox won't work unless you exclude Chrome from Online Armor.
* Certain themeing and desktop applications like RocketDock and WindowBlinds can cause GUI locks and crashes. We recommend to exclude the OAUI.EXE process in those applications."
http://support.emsisoft.com/topic/4081-online-armor-50-third-release-candidate-available/

 

Re: Online Armor 5.0 RC

Someone beat me to posting the RC 3 .

You can always test it against their leak test suite. I doubt though that Matousec will ever test Online Armor again since we certainly won't pay the ransom fee they demand.

 

Re: Online Armor 5.0 RC

Uupsss...sorry

 

A friend had problems with the ver 4.5 about exclusions disappearing and having to set-up again or reload configuration from a saved config file...anyone seen this behavior yet..? She was using Winddows 7x32 and XP SP3.

With this RC version, will you be able to load preconfigured settings from a saved config file again?

How about an unused license...? I did have confirmation from someone at the old OA forum about it still being good(no shelf-life --time ticks upon first use)..will it still be the same..?

Sorry for the questions here. Not been able to visit the OA forums(using Outpost/Privatefrewall/Comodo on my machines now)

Yeah. Me too here.

 

Dundertaker,

I have XP Pro SP3...no issues with remembering settings and you can import/export saved configurations. (Firewall, Websites, Settings etc.)

Running smoothly with no apparent issues. (I am now running RC3. Each RC was installed over version 4.5.)

 

Good work, v5 rc3 runs great on my machine. Only the old fashioned pop-ups need to be fix.

@Dundertaker

Same as blues7, no problems here (Win7 32bit).

 

Does it support Win 7 64 bit aswell ?

 

Absolutely, i'm using since 6 months without any problem.

 

@ Fabian cannot get to the forum
is it down?? thanks

 

Emsisoft has been having server issues as of late. The update server for Anti-Malware was completely down at one point a day ago.

 

Online Armor 5.0 RC

Is this Cost so Prohibitively Large that Emsisoft cannot pay it?

 

Re: Online Armor 5.0 RC

I have already explained this elsewhere, but Matousec wants money that allegedly Tall Emu owes them. I.e., the Matousec guys think that the source code/trademark is a legal person who can owe money.

As a matter of principle, I would not pay them even $1.

Edit: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=281529 is the local link, this post with Emsisoft stance and this one from Mike Nash (Tall Emu).