Accessing Online Armor Settings
There are two main ways to access Online Armor’s settings: right-clicking the Online Armor tray icon and from the Online Armor Control Panel.
All of the most commonly used settings are available by right-clicking the tray icon. When Online Armor is running you will see a small blue and white shield icon in the area next to your system clock, known as the system tray.
Right-click on this icon to reveal a menu containing quick access to most of the settings you may need on a regular basis.
This menu contains the following items:
- Configuration – Access the Online Armor Control Panel.
- Check for Updates – Opens another menu that allows you to check for updates to the whole program, or check for updates to OASIS and Antivirus definitions only.
- Help – Access the online help that you are reading now.
- Online-Armor on the Web – Our main website.
- Open User Area - Takes you to the User Area of our website, where you can renew, reset activations, and otherwise manage your license key.
- Set Password – Allows you to set a password to restrict access to Online Armor’s settings by anyone that does not know the password. More information can be found on the Customizing Online Armor help page.
- 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, Keyloggers, Antivirus Engine – 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 Filesystem 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.