• 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

Accessing Online Armor Settings

The Control Panel is the main interface for making configuration changes. You can access the Control Panel by double-clicking the blue and white shield icon in your system tray.

The following commonly used settings are also available by right-clicking the Online Armor tray icon:

• Configuration – Access the Online Armor Control Panel.
• Check for Updates – Allows you to check for updates to the whole program, or only check for updates to the Emsisoft digital signature blacklist and whitelist, and Antivirus definitions.
• Help – Access the illustrated online webhelp.
• Online Armor on the Web – Takes you to Emsisoft's website.
• Set Password – Allows you to set a password to restrict access to Online Armor's settings.
• Standard Mode, Advanced Mode, Banking Mode – Allows you to see and change which mode Online Armor is currently using. You will see a small icon to the left of the mode currently being used.
• Firewall, Web Shield, Program Guard, Anti-Keylogger, Antivirus – Allows you to quickly enable or disable these features. Any currently enabled features will be displayed with a checkmark to the left of the menu entry.
• Show Firewall Status – Displays the Firewall Status panel, showing you information on your computer's internet traffic and how the Firewall is handling it.
• Show Firewall Log – Displays a log of Firewall activity if logging is enabled.
• Start Antivirus Scan – Starts a scan of your hard drive with the Antivirus system if you are using Online Armor ++.
• Learning Mode – Allows you to enable or disable Learning Mode. Learning Mode is enabled when this item is displayed with an icon to the left.
• Block All Network Traffic – Stops all network/internet traffic when enabled so that nothing can connect to the network/internet. This item will be displayed with an icon to the left when enabled.
• Activate/Deactivate HIPS features – Allows you to disable all of Online Armor's protection features except for the firewall. This item will change according to what clicking this menu item will do: clicking "Deactivate HIPS features" will disable protection features, and clicking "Activate HIPS features" will enable protection features.
• Close and Shutdown Online Armor – Shuts down Online Armor completely, disabling all protection.
• Close GUI Interface – Closes the Online Armor interface leaving protection running in the background. You will not receive any pop-ups or alerts when the interface is closed; Online Armor will automatically block anything that would normally produce a pop-up.