Online Armor Tips & Tricks

These tips and tricks on using Online Armor were provided by members of our support forum. If you have any tips and tricks of your own that you wish to share, please feel free to contact us!

• If you have a program installed that is not already on the Programs list, you can simply drag and drop the program on to the list.
• If you want to see additional information about a file in any list, such as the full path to its location on the hard drive, try hovering your mouse pointer above the program name in any list.
• If you want to change how any list is organized, click the column header for any column to sort the list alphabetically by that column. By default Online Armor shows the list alphabetically by the program file (e.g. “example.exe”), but if you want to alphabetize the list by the Program Name, click the block at the top of that column. Clicking again will reverse the alphabetical order. This works in most other computer programs, too!
• Looking for a specific program in the list? Try typing the first letter of the program file to jump to the first program file with that letter
• If you have the Firewall set up the way you want, and you want Online Armor to block anything else without popping up, try creating a rule that blocks all traffic. Online Armor will then Allow anything you have a rule for and automatically block everything else without asking you.
• Backups can be good for more than reinstalling Online Armor. If you want to try making a lot of configuration changes to Online Armor, and want to make it easy to go back to the way it was, try making a backup. If you need to go back to your original settings then you can just restore the backup.
• The default file name for an OA Backup is: OASettingsYYMMDD.OA
  This means if you should make 2 backups on the same day the second will overwrite the first. Better to choose a name that means something to you like OAv###L, where "###" is the OA version number and "L" is a letter or number. OAv131a, OAv131b, etc.
• Sometimes the structure of a Backup will change so an older Backup cannot be restored. However, not all is lost! Both Firewall and Web Sites have an Export/Import function. Simply right click and choose the option you want. If a backup file will not restore you can always import these after an install and initial reboot.