I would like to see a future version give the option in the preferences to remove the icon from the dock and put a small version of the icon in the top status bar. I believe this would be helpful to the end user to de-clutter the dock.
Yes, in the new version (see the sticky topic), there’s a menulet icon in the menubar. You don’t need the main gui/dock icon anymore, for on-access scan and network/mail shields.