Choose Your Mode – Standard and Advanced Modes

The Firewall has two modes of operation to suit the needs of different types of users: Standard mode and Advanced mode.

Note: Advanced mode is not available in Online Armor Free.

Standard mode is the easiest way to use Online Armor’s Firewall, and should suit most users. When you are using Online Armor in Standard mode you will only see one pop-up from the Firewall asking you to Allow or Block an Unknown program from accessing the internet. The Firewall pop-up does not contain any extra information about how a program accesses the internet; it only asks you whether you want to allow it or not, and then Online Armor handles the rest.

Advanced Firewall options that most users won’t need will also be hidden in the Control Panel while in Standard mode.

Advanced mode is for more advanced computer users that wish to exercise more control over how programs can access the internet. Switching to Advanced mode opens up new options for the Firewall in the Online Armor Control Panel, and adds additional information to Firewall pop-ups about the addresses, port, protocol, and country of the connection being made.

Note: Any configuration changes made in Advanced mode will still function while in Standard mode; they will simply be hidden in the Online Armor Control Panel.