Online Armor sold to Emsisoft

Corrine · 30 Jun 2010

Mike Nash confirmed in his blog post today that he sold the popular software firewall, Online Armor, to Emsisoft.

On behalf of Emsisoft CEO, Christian Mairoll, Mike provided the following information for Online Armor customers:

"Product editions will stay untouched. Freeware edition will not end of course.
Website remains on Best Firewall Software - Stops Hackers, Malware, Viruses, Keylogger & Online Banking Protection - Online Armor, but we'll have to move everything away from tallemu.* domains soon.
Forum remains, but moved to support.online-armor.com

Which kind of benefits does Emsisoft expect from the deal then? As part of a much larger development team (8 at Emsisoft so far), OA development can progress faster. Sharing knowledge internally is a very important factor for speed and quality of the produced software.

With the existing marketing and sales force at Emsisoft, we want to spread the name about OA much more. It's a great product, winning tests, but we need to tell everybody about it to make it grow.
On the long run, we have plans to create some kind of a suite product. It's gonna be a completely new product most likely. But things are not finally decided yet."

I wish Mike and Tall Emu success in the flexible CRM system, developed for corporate customers.

@Hackerman1 -- does this mean you'll switch to Online Armor?

hackerman1 · 30 Jun 2010

hi !

i have already switched to OA !

i did it 32 days ago, after i discovered the security-problems with Comodo:
Security-problem with Comodo´s firewall & Defence+ !

i already had a license for OA, so it didnt´cost me anything...

btw. Tallemu & Emsisoft has cooperated long before Tallemu sold OA to Emsisoft.
OA++ is actually OA-premium & a-squared combined as a suite.

so this means that i have a very good combination, as i already had a-squared, i´m actually running OA++ now.

JMH · 30 Jun 2010

I used Online Armor for yonks under Mike Nash.... [a fine Aussie from Sydney.]

The forum is well run too. Not only available in English but five other languages as well.

http://support.tallemu.com/vbforum/