Software Update: Emsisoft Online Armor 7.0.0.1866

Emsisoft has released version 7.0 of Online Armor. This firewall program is available in Free and Premium flavors. The Premium version includes file and registry monitoring, DNS spoofing protection, automatic updates and a special mode for online banking. A license for Premium costs 40 euros per year. The main improvements in this release are listed below.

These are the major improvements:

• Full Windows 8.1 support.
• Asynchronous connection handling. This way existing connections will no longer be blocked by pending firewall alerts.
• Improved processing of digital signatures that use special hash and time stamp algorithms.
• Improved banking mode. Now all domains that are trusted are visible to the user to avoid confusion about implicitly trusted pages as well as white-listed pages.
• Improved rule processing for better performance.
• Improved compatibility with both Chrome-based browsers as well as Sandboxie, VoodooShield, and several other security applications.
• Improved updates. Online Armor now uses the same content delivery network that is used by Emsisoft Anti-Malware to provide the best download speeds for all our users.
• Obsolete Online Armor++ components have been removed, reducing the download size by about 60%.
• More than 300 bug fixes overall. Between them various possible blue screens on Windows 7 and 8 systems.