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Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

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Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

#31

This is immensely helpful (and beautiful). I really like how you can monitor remote boxes. Customization of alerts is great too! Any chance you will support hi-res screens (see http://imgur.com/ztN8cL3 )?

Wow, that looks awful. What kind of screen are you using? I don't have one. Any details would be appreciated so we can fix this.

You should be able to simulate one by clicking "make text look larger or smaller" in screen resolution.

Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

#32
This looks brilliant and is badly needed on Windows. However the fact that it's free gives me pause, especially since we're talking about privacy software that is not open source.

What usually happens with freeware like this is that it becomes adware or dies. I think you have enough features to charge for it now.

Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

#35

This is immensely helpful (and beautiful). I really like how you can monitor remote boxes. Customization of alerts is great too! Any chance you will support hi-res screens (see http://imgur.com/ztN8cL3 )?

Wow, that looks awful. What kind of screen are you using? I don't have one. Any details would be appreciated so we can fix this.

Running Windows 8.1 on Macbook Pro Retina (via bootcamp). I found this on MSDN...not sure if it's applicable: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn46...

Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

#36
post #32

This looks brilliant and is badly needed on Windows. However the fact that it's free gives me pause, especially since we're talking about privacy software that is not open source. What usually happens with freeware like this is that it becomes adware or dies. I think you have enough features to charge for it now.

Thank you! The bottom of our index page explains that we plan to make a paid version with more features in the future. We're working on a list of paid features. I don't think it would be appropriate for a privacy type application to include adware so please don't worry about that.

Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

#38

This is immensely helpful (and beautiful). I really like how you can monitor remote boxes. Customization of alerts is great too! Any chance you will support hi-res screens (see http://imgur.com/ztN8cL3 )?

Wow, that looks awful. What kind of screen are you using? I don't have one. Any details would be appreciated so we can fix this.

At Screen Resolution -> Make text and other items larger or smaller you can set the DPI to other value (ex. 125%)

This is the information for DPI-Aware applications.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn46...

I would attach some source code from a game I wrote, but I don't have the source code of it at hand right now.

Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

#39

Site is getting hammered right now, but everything looks awesome. Are there any settings for VPNs? Does it work with VPNs?

You can use your VPN with GlassWire and it works OK but we haven't tested in detail. I used GlassWire with my own VPN and I didn't see any obvious problems so far.

Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire

#40
Beautiful UI! Just curious: why not block connection attempts from new programs automatically? By the time a user has noticed and blocked future connections, it may well be too late.

On a related note, I recently tested a number of firewalls for Windows using Comodo's HIPS and Firewall Leak Test Suite[1]; the only one I found that passed all tests with virtually no setup or changes was SpyShelter Firewall[2]. Not an endorsement by any means, just an observation.

[1] http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/cltinfo.html [2] http://www.spyshelter.com/spyshelter-firewall/

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