Online Armor Firewall Free - Slow Scans

[ritchie58]

I was using Emsi Software's Online Armor Free Firewall until very recently when a new update (version 4.5.0.234) rendered this application very buggy (mainly start up issues) so I decided to give another firewall a try. I switched to COMODO Firewall 4.1. Since doing so I COULDN'T HELP but notice the disparity between the time it took to run a full scan with IMP. With Online Armor (with the older version as well) it took well over an hour to run a full scan. Since I've switched to COMODO a full scan is blindingly fast compared to the way it was. It takes under 8 minuets to scan all 3 drives now! The logical extrapolation would be that something was interfering with the scan process with Online Armor. Since I uninstalled OA one can only guess if it was something in the software itself or a security setting I made. ???

[alfred]

I was using Emsi Software's Online Armor Free Firewall until very recently when a new update (version 4.5.0.234) rendered this application very buggy (mainly start up issues) so I decided to give another firewall a try. I switched to COMODO Firewall 4.1. Since doing so I COULDN'T HELP but notice the disparity between the time it took to run a full scan with IMP. With Online Armor (with the older version as well) it took well over an hour to run a full scan. Since I've switched to COMODO a full scan is blindingly fast compared to the way it was. It takes under 8 minuets to scan all 3 drives now! The logical extrapolation would be that something was interfering with the scan process with Online Armor. Since I uninstalled OA one can only guess if it was something in the software itself or a security setting I made. ???

 

 

We have had issues w/ OA before and do not officially support it per se (http://support.immunet.com/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=19#Can_I_run_my_Immunet_Protect_FREE_install_along_non_supported_Anti_Virus_products_) as a result.

 

Cheers,

al