14 DAY TRIAL // Firewalling your computer used to be a money-bleeding task because all the products destined to monitor and prevent installed applications receive or send information from or outside your computer were commodities. Not anymore, as serious developers offer users such protection for free, or, as it is the case of Tall Emu, the developer of Online Armor, which also provides a free version of their firewall besides the paid products.
Although the free edition works great and is quite flexible in terms of the options offered, Online Armor Premium and Online Armor ++ provide additional features like Online Banking Mode (ensures secure online transactions), transparent blocking, DNS spoofing protection, antivirus and anti-malware as well as a rootkit scanner.
The prices are $39.95 for a one-year subscription of the Premium version and $69.95 for the ++ edition. For some users this may sound awful, but for a period of 3 days you can get a $29.95 discount for both products. This translates into a 75% price cut for the Premium edition and 43% for Online Armor ++, getting them to $10 and $40 respectively.
To benefit from the price shave-off all you have to do is enter the Softpedia promotional code upon purchasing any of the two products. Simply click here and add the desired product to the cart. In order to check out you will have to register with Online Armor (it is free and painless, I assure you). Just before rushing to pay the bill, type in “softpedia” as the promotional discount code and witness the prince shrink for the chosen product.
Thanks to its learning mode, Online Armor is easy to set up and unlike other firewall solutions out there it won't get you to the brink of your patience with intrusion alert pop-ups or notifications about a process connecting to a remote location or trying to send something in. Online Armor provides a different approach and scans your entire computer from the beginning, looking for the dangers already settled in. Then it runs the list by you, to decide on the validity of its detection. You should know from the start that the application comes with a set of trusted applications and processes in order to make your job easier.
Online Armor is more than just a simple firewall solution as it incorporates inbound/outbound protection managing options, web surf protection, detects spoof mail and controls the behavior of the programs. And with the full Online Armor++ suite you will benefit from antivirus protection as well.
If you wish to try before you buy, both paid products come with a free evaluation period of at least 25 days, sufficient time to properly put all the features to the test.
