Emsisoft Online Armor 6.0 is out!

Thank's for the feedback chattycathy, much appreciated.

 

You're welcome! I am continuing to test it very often and just maybe it will continue to work this time!

 

Running OA Firewall Free v6. There hasn't been any slow downs for me atm, like in the past.

 

Are you using sandboxie too.?
If so,any issues?

 

No, I don't use SB

 

Thank you peter
That is why i stopped using it because of issues with sbie and firefox.

 

I don't think Peter2150 is using Win 7 x64 which has the main SBIE issues with OA. I still think FF load is very slow with OA6 and SBIE in combo on 7 x 64 but some of the other issues notably with Chrome and Foxit Reader are fixed.

In the short run I had with OA6 it felt quite clunky. Disc activity and CPU were higher than I'd want or experienced with similar products including the one you currently use. This could be 'learning' activity I suppose and YMMV so why not give it a whirl and see if it works for you?

 

Hi chris1341, so you tried OA6.0/SBIE/Chrome together on W7 x64 and wherein you used to have an issue with Chrome not working, it is now fixed with 6.0? Would that be correct?

 

I don't feel any difference at all though. It's as good as before!

 

Hi,
I couldnt get pages in firefox to fully render at all.!.I would enter sites like facebook and the entire page would freeze solid.
Going by what you have just said i think i shall stick with kaspersky until there is solid and positive feedback that OA and sandboxie and FF are running smoothly because at the minute kaspersky is running beautifully on my machine.

 

Yes, OA6+SBIE+Chrome on Win7 x64 worked fine for me. That combo didn't work on 5.5.

Cheers

 

I think most of the issues are due to the HIPS feature.

I would like personally the free Online Armor version to have the ICMP settings
and the Import /Export settings available , in exchange to the HIPS feature (which is a little problematic it seems) ,though i doubt the developer would take in consideration such request.

 

hmm...I tried to install OA6 free on W7 64bit and it says cannot install due to virtual box with bridge networking incompaitablity....

huh.... virtual box with bridge networking? As I'm using a Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller (no virtual nic), W7 64 bit (no virtaul box) and the only bridge is my speedstream router.... Am I not understanding something here?

 

OA is not compatible with Virtual Box, check the support forum here

http://support.emsisoft.com/topic/5208-known-online-armor-issues/#entry42168

 

I'm not running one.....

irtual box with bridge networking? As I'm using a Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller (no virtual nic), W7 64 bit (no virtaul box) and the only bridge is my speedstream router.... Am I not understanding something here?

 

do you have the software called "Virtual Box" or it has been ever installed?

 

I had MS virtual PC while back . I found reference to it in the registry also a oracle virtual deleted it but still no luck...maybe another instance of it that I cannot found?

 

Hello,

Personally I'd try installing Virtual Box and then uninstalling, 'cause its own uninstaller'd most likely deal with leftovers (though, I'm not sure).

Additionally you can use some uninstall tool to remove the VBox leftovers.

If nothing of the above'd help - please try deleting the VBoxNetFlt driver from the registry manually.

Best regards,
Andrey.

 

I did a search in registry and nothing shows up a vbox or virtual box and even in windows nothing shows up in search. Oh well I'll try it next time I do a format and install a clean image.

EDIT.. just tried another registry cleaner (Auslogics Registry Cleaner) and it found it. All good now!

 

I'll install it along with EAM v7.0 right now

 

Played a little with the trial to enable Advanced features.
Using the country list i have managed to kill Windows Update needing uninstal ,have no idea what happened.

Add-ed for fun USA and Germany along other countries to the blocked alowed and the Update of Windows started to show errors on connecting .After removing all countries from the list (leaving it empty as default) the issue persisted.

So "Fatherland" should be left aside when playing with the country list.
Continuous connections to Germany and USA seem to be a must this days

 

I know ,wanted to see if it is able to block itself
I ve reinstalled and now without playing with lists ,Microsoft Essentials and Win Up again do not find their way thru

In standard mode ,as free, with identical firewall settings ,everything was just fine.

It is missing some executables though ,not popping up connections regarding some executables.I have to manually add them in programs and then manually do the port rule.Mass Effect 1 and iSpy (the web camera stuff that monitors my car ) for example.

I ve had to also disable HIPS as it is conflicting with the Microsoft anti-virus or something.

 

Online Armor by default auto trusts certain apps based on cloud information and also trusts apps with valid digital certificates.

You could try disabling both of them but you will have tons of pop ups.