• Welcome
• Installation and setup
  • Safety Check Wizard
  • Learning Mode
  • Accessing Settings
  • Configuration
  • Banking Mode
  • RunSafer
• Using Online Armor
  • Status
  • Firewall
    • Creating Firewall Rules
    • Ports and Protocols
    • Firewall Status Screen
    • Firewall Logs
  • Domains
  • Antivirus
    • Scanning
  • Programs
  • Files and Registry
    • Creating File Rules
    • Creating Registry Rules
  • Autoruns
  • Anti-Keylogger
  • Hosts file
  • History
  • Options
  • Debug
• Customer Support

Running the Safety Check Wizard

After installation, Online Armor will proceed with the Safety Check Wizard. The Safety Check Wizard uses the Anti-Malware Network to identify known safe or malicious programs and only requires your interaction for any Unknown programs that may be on your computer. Most users will not need to configure many of the sections below.

1. Welcome – If you are installing Online Armor for the first time, you have two options. You can select to Trust everything found by the Wizard or Run the Wizard and let it guide you through several steps to detect installed programs on your computer and set your preferences. If you had Online Armor installed previously, and you saved your settings, then you can click Restore and select the settings file to restore your previously saved settings and skip the rest of the Wizard.
2. Wizard – This section scans your system to identify any Trusted or Not-Trusted programs possible. Any sections of the Safety Check Wizard that can be automatically configured using the Trusted programs list will be shown here as "Passed". Any areas listed as "Needs Attention" contain programs that are Unknown and need your approval. If you do Allow any Unknown programs, Online Armor will set them to Trusted to ensure smooth operation without any popups for those programs.
   
   
   • Product Update – Checks our servers to ensure that you have the latest Emsisoft digital signature blacklist and whitelist, and antivirus definitions if you are using Online Armor ++. If there is an update available then the Safety Check Wizard will download and install it.
   • Processes – Checks all running programs and uses the Anti-Malware Network to identify any programs possible.
   • Start menu – Checks your Start menu to see what programs are installed.
   • Autoruns – Checks to see what programs automatically run when Windows starts.
   • System files – Checks system components including drivers. Most drivers are installed to allow you to use your hardware (such as your video card), but malware sometimes uses drivers to hook deeper into the system.
3. Options – This section displays the program options for Online Armor and allows you to make some initial configuration before Online Armor begins protecting your system. These options can also be changed later. For more information see the Options help page.
4. Restart – When the Safety Check Wizard has completed you will need to restart your computer to enable Online Armor's protection. Online Armor will take some additional time to complete configuration after this reboot, which may cause Windows to start up more slowly.