OA Firewall (review)

That's it. In OA we only use the AV as an extension of our own system to help identify known-dangerous files.


Mike

 

My computer isn't proper for testing (too many programs installed, and i have no experience in troubleshooting), and i wait for Stem to report .
Note that my Emule is loaded of things to download, and that's just the active ones. Most are curiosity items, but they do go over 100.

As i said, with this out of the way, you have a great firewall
Personally though, i'd only use the firewall and the program part. The other items seem useful too, just not for me, since i have it covered, and i don't use IE.

Hope you can see what's wrong. I'll revisit OA to try again.

 

Hi Someone,

I am setting up now, so will keep the thread updated.

 

I am using the FW at default setting as I have no clue about creating rules and such. What are your thought on running at default level?

Thanks

 

Thanks!!

 

Hello again Someone,

OK, I know still too early for full report, but thought I would let you know I am set up, and currently running OA with Emule (on test PC).

Have been running for 3HRs and will be checking for any problems, (and of course will post to inform of any I find).

I will leave this running for as long as I can spare the PC.

current download rate 145.8kb/s
Current upload rate 32.4kb/s
current "active(upload/download in progress)" connections 54
current memory usage (2 processes of OA) 15,200kb
Blacklists on all connections

 

Thanks Steam!

Seems a very nice firewall with useful features

I will try the final version, but unfortunatly it isn't freeware...

Excellent work, MikeNash!

 

Thanks Vampiric Crow. I'd love to make OA freeware, but unfortunately my family has grown accustomed to eating and having clothes. It would be a shame to ruin it now for them.

 

I completly understand you...

Keep the very good work!

 

Clothes: overrated! Food? common.. all you really need is bread and water!

Stem and MikeNash: i'll install it again today or tomorrow to see what was wrong. I downloaded what i wanted, for now... P2P is an addiction.
I'll try uninstalling some programs that i really don't use anymore, and that could be interfering.

 

Hi Someone!

If you help us to solve this problem then you'll get a complementary key for the product

Mike

 

It remains to be seen that there is a problem , but i really appreciate the gesture

 

Dwonloaded OA2 and it is running fine with my NOD32. Just for the heck of it I went over to grc.com and it passed the true stealth test.

 

i have been using emule since i began beta testing OA since around Build 139. my system is XP Pro SP2, and i have had a variety of security apps over the last few months. one of the pleasant surprises for me has been how easy OA firewall is to get along with. even in my present OA set-up where i did not allow auto set-up of trusted apps, and not allowing trusted apps to automatically connect out, OA after my manually allowing initial connections gives me high id on KAD and edonkey servers evertime. on every build, i am presently running 165.


Mike

 

yes i do and it runs flawlessly with OA...all builds i have tested. NOD 32 is the only security app that has been a constant in my testing with OA, around 4-5 months. i tested OA with AV brefiely, but went back to using NOD after 3-4 days. based on my experience you will encounter no issues with NOD & OA running together.


Mike

 

Uninstalled several programs, cleaned the registry, temp files (why not, did a full cleanup), uninstalled completly Comodo, and installed OA.
Spiked at first, then calmed down, spiked a bit less then, and now it's calm, quite until now, no reason to suspect it will rise.
Atachment is read like a book (regarding time), left to right, up- down.

Emule hasn't started to seriously download, but last time OA spiked from start. This could be due to conflict of some sort, given the amount of programs i had.

If i run into trouble, i'll report, but it looks like my last impression was wrong.

note: as i write this, oasrv.exe went to 16%-46%-26.x%-86%-back to 8%.
I'm puzzled

 

Oh no...
Ok, now calming down. I suspect it spikes when new conections are established. Then it goes back to normal.

 

Someone...

What program is that, that you can see the process like that?

Thanks

 

Process Explorer from sysinternals.
Double click on the process.

 

Process Explorer.
There's also What's Running, diferent.

 

THANKS!

 

I downloaded OA2 w/o AV. But today I scanned my computer for viruses as there was an option to do that on the program. Is this done with the KAV engine?

 

No, this is done with OA's much smaller blacklist.. we should probably change the wording on the non AV version.