Online Armor Personal Firewall Features
Online Armor's broad range of features help keep you safe when surfing the internet. Not all features are available in Online Armor Free. For a list of which features are not included, please check the comparisons page.
Personal Firewall
Online Armor's new personal firewall provides awesome protection from inbound threats and complete control of data leaving your computer for the internet. In standard mode, most decisions are made completely automatically based on Online Armor's whitelist - meaning that you never need answer a complex firewall prompt again.
Autoruns Management
Autoruns management allows you to control which programs start automatically with your computer. This can be used to help defeat spyware (it must start sometime) as well as optimize your computer's performance.
Tamper Protection
Malicious programs are getting tougher and tougher and often attack other programs (including security programs) to do their nasty deeds. Online Armor has a guard function which guards not only itself against tampering, but protects other programs from malicious code.
Keylogger Detection
Keyloggers are designed to capture keystrokes while users enter personal information such as passwords and account numbers on financial and other secure Web sites. Online Armor protects your passwords and private information from being stolen by blocking the keylogger as it tries to activate. Online Armor's behaviour detection ensures that even specially created or new keyloggers are detected and prevented.
Web Shield
Online Armor's Web Shield checks to make sure that when you visit a financial, or other important domain that you are taken to the domain you expect and not a fraudulent one. The Web Shield also allows you to block your computer from making any connections to undesired domains.
Prevent Spyware
The Program Guard gives you control of which programs are allowed to run on your computer. Known safe programs, such as MS Office will automatically be allowed to run and dangerous programs will give a red warning popup so you can prevent them from running. If a new program is detected, you have the option to allow, block or get more information and you can always change your mind. If you block a program while it is still running, Online Armor will stop it and prevent it running in future.
Remove Spyware
If spyware gets onto your computer perhaps because you have accidentally allowed it, Online Armor will allow you to remove it. Unwanted programs can be blocked with the Program Guard, or removed completely (along with all of the files they created).
DNS Checker
For high-value sites you need to protect, such as Online Banking sites, Online Armor's DNS Checker ensures you're visiting the site you think you are. It compares the DNS results from your local machine against a trusted third-party server. This stops programs from manipulating your Windows settings to misdirect you to fake sites.
Hosts Checker
The hosts file can be used to make your web browser visit sites other than the one you intended. Online Armor will monitor the Hosts file for any changes and pop-up when an Unknown program attempts to modify the Hosts file, giving you a chance to Allow or Block it.
Simplicity
Perhaps the best feature of Online Armor is its simplicity. All of the features work transparently, quietly and with minimum setup and fuss. You don't need to be a computer expert to use Online Armor.
