ONLINE ARMOR RUNNING AT 2,290.00MB? [CLOSED]

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[MR BLOMBERG]

only online armor free at the moment

[panic]

G'day again,

The excessive disk usage is most likely caused by the firewall generating loads of logs. The current release of OA Free has logging enabled by default, but future releases will logging turned off by default.

To turn logging off, open the firewall and click the OPTIONS button on the left hand menu. Click the FIREWALL tab and almost directly underneath is the option to select or deselect logging. Deselect it and then clear any existing logs out of the C:\Program Files\Tall Emu\Online Armor\Logs\ folder. Just to ensure we're starting from a known position, I'd reboot and then go to Control Panel and check its disk usage again. It shoud be in the vicinity of 15-25 MB.

Regarding the slowdown you experienced, do you run any P2P apps, like BitTorrent? If so, the slowdown MAY have been caused by the enabled logging tracking the flow of traffic generated by the P2P app.

Cheers,
Ewen :-)

[MR BLOMBERG]

im gunna go and try and clear the firewall logs right now ill keep you posted on what happens.

i do download from sites using utorrent.

[panic]

OK. Once you have disabled logging and cleared the logs, can you please post the new disk usage size, jus so we all know the new baseline. After that, use the PC as you normally would for a day or two. If it slows down during this period,make a note of what you were doing at the time and what CPU load was and what processes were hogging the CPU (this info is available through Task Manager). Post the results back here.

Hope all this helps,
Ewen :-)

P.S. Not that I'm trying to get you to leave, but wouldn't the OA Free forums be a better place to get support for OA Free? 

[MR BLOMBERG]

i did turn logging off just recently,then i went and searched for logs and found them deleted them and then did a reboot and still it says im at 2,290.00MB,and to clear this up i didnt post over at online armor forums for the plain fact they blocked my ip adress from jumping topic on a spyware/antivirus question a while back.

[gibran]

I never said I didnt want to try OA free, what i meant by my first post, was that I wouldn't BUY any OA products. What is wrong with sharing the same PC? We both chipped in on it, so we both own it.

Man! This makes me NEVER want to try out their product. This cant be good for business, free or not!!

Just to let you know If you are going to comment another product when there is no other party available to refute those assertions you need to carefully choose your words.
Creating a topic which involves only you and your roommate and writing a misleading sentence while meaning something different will only bring troubles.

[gibran]

i did turn logging off just recently,then i went and searched for logs and found them deleted them and then did a reboot and still it says im at 2,290.00MB,and to clear this up i didnt post over at online armor forums for the plain fact they blocked my ip adress from jumping topic on a spyware/antivirus question a while back.

I guess this is a MSI installer related issue or alike. Those figures are too high to be trusted.
Please look at OA installation folder properties using the properties context menu entry and tell us the real folder size.
If you uninstall OA delete its folder manually even if it appears to be empty.

There is related products to solve MSI issues. You may wish to create a Restore point before using that product :
http://www.instant-registry-fixes.org/windows-repair-installer-configuration-information/

[MR BLOMBERG]

i got lost finding the OA installation folder, its just becoming a hassle,i may just end up using windows firewall or comodo 3

[gibran]

Since you consider this an hassle I'm going to close this topic.
I invite you to direct such questions in a more appropriate forum.

Well, my roommate said he first came here with this issue (with OA) because he wanted to see if maybe someone else had used OA and had the same problem?

We've always used Comodo, but he saw on wilders that OA was favored more than comodo, so he just wanted to try it out.

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As wilders has a strong OA Supporter Community I wonder why you and your roommate did not choose to post there in the first place.
Anyway no one had a similiar issue with OA. So you got the answer you searched for.

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