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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub for Windows is another beautifully designed Windows app. They even published a blog post about it: https://github.com/blog/1151-designing-github-for-windows

that app has less features than a rock.

While true, it does what i need to do, sync my branches with my github for doing PRs.

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

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post #54

Great application, please create one that can be run on Linux and Windows machines as a service and monitoried using such a beautiful client software.

Check this out https://www.glasswire.com/userguide/#Remote_Monitoring . We're considering Linux monitoring also.

Thanks! I am looking forward to the Linux monitoring.

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

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From FAQ page:

> GlassWire keeps an up to date list of known suspicious hosts and alerts you if you contact one. Suspicious hosts are often related to botnets, malware, and other malicious behavior

How is this implemented exactly? Does the app phone home? Does it do some sort of RBL check (if so, against which servers)?

Thanks

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

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post #73

Nice app. Please test it with the Windows classic theme (Windows 7/2008 R2), the "Glasswire" button is a bit glitchy. What's the overhead of Glasswire? For me it's 2-6% CPU (of my many core systems). What does the gwdrv.sys kernel driver do exactly? Hook into the TCPIP.sys kernel driver? Is the "Glasswire control service" an app update service? Blocking it in the "Firewall" tab has no negative side effect so far.

Thank you. We will test with that theme, thanks for the details. My CPU is nowhere close to 2% when GlassWire is minimized and I have an older PC with 8.1. Please send details if you have time via email or our forum. GlassWire checks for software updates. If you block GlassWire from accessing the network then you won't hear about new versions.

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

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Wow. I hate how so many Windows applications are considerably uglier compared to Mac counterparts. The Windows apps don't seem to push forward Windows design but rather get stuck in the Windows XP design days. This is beautifully designed and clear. The graph visualization is prime, and I love that the peaks are "rounded" out instead of sharp declines (sharp declines would make it look more like a live stock ticker).…

GitHub for Windows is another beautifully designed Windows app. They even published a blog post about it: https://github.com/blog/1151-designing-github-for-windows

Here is a library that helps to create such an interface: http://mahapps.com/

It's also mentioned in the blog post you've posted.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of MahApps.Metro, I hope nobody minds the shameless self-promotion

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

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This is really pretty, but I don't use anything in this vein except for Spybot Search and Destroy. I wonder what other HNers are think about that: am I asking for trouble? I haven't had any problems in years. I'm a Windows user, and I run SS&D every month or so (I don't run the resident process).

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

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Beautiful!

Could you make it so when the graph rescales, it just doesn't snap into place, but gradually (say, animate over a half second) resizes?

EDIT: If I have GlassWire on my second monitor, and click "+ 2 more" to see what else is going on, the pop-up opens on my first monitor.

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

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post #83

From FAQ page: > GlassWire keeps an up to date list of known suspicious hosts and alerts you if you contact one. Suspicious hosts are often related to botnets, malware, and other malicious behavior How is this implemented exactly? Does the app phone home? Does it do some sort of RBL check (if so, against which servers)? Thanks

GlassWire checks for software updates and also does an RBL check. You can see it on the graph and block GlassWire if you want, but then you won't be alerted to new versions and your malicious hosts will become outdated. We don't list our malicious host list sources but I guess we could, I'll have to think about it more. We don't get the hosts from our users or access any user data at all. Your graph data is private on your machine, unless you set up our remote monitoring feature and that data also never goes through our servers at all.

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

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post #86

This is really pretty, but I don't use anything in this vein except for Spybot Search and Destroy. I wonder what other HNers are think about that: am I asking for trouble? I haven't had any problems in years. I'm a Windows user, and I run SS&D every month or so (I don't run the resident process).

YMMV, but not downloading every fool thing that comes my way has been a very reliable way to keep my Windows machines free from infection.

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

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Wow. I hate how so many Windows applications are considerably uglier compared to Mac counterparts. The Windows apps don't seem to push forward Windows design but rather get stuck in the Windows XP design days. This is beautifully designed and clear. The graph visualization is prime, and I love that the peaks are "rounded" out instead of sharp declines (sharp declines would make it look more like a live stock ticker).…

+1 for the nice design of this app! But personally, unless the curves represent actual data points, I think they're somewhat disingenuous. Granted they look prettier than spikes but they give a false representation of the resolution of the data.

You are correct, it's not perfect but we're always trying to improve the graph so it's a better representation.
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