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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

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Post by greenwalls »

acasetta wrote: post #91

I actually just signed on to HN to comment on this news. Great job, first of all for a good solution to a real problem. Next, great design: finally an application that does not pale in comparison to its Mac counterparts.

Thanks for the kind words!

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

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Post by wvenable »

greenwalls wrote: post #50
sahaskatta wrote: post #49

I just installed this on a Surface Pro 3. First off great app, but just wanted to give you a heads up: The icons in the taskbar and notification area are blurry due to a HDPI screen. A good portion of the interface is cut off or broken likely due to scaling issues.

Thanks for the heads up. We'll pick up a Surface and fix this.

No need to pick up a surface; just adjusting the display settings in Windows 8.1 should be enough to simulate the problems. Increase the DPI, etc.

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

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Post by greenwalls »

scoot wrote: post #57
greenwalls wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will let them know, thank you! GlassWire is kind of like "Little Snitch" in the way that it shows you everything and lets you make your own decision on what you want to do, but we also add in some extra protections like malicious host alerts, ARP spoofing detection, DNS server changes, Host changes, and we let you know about changes to your applications that are accessing the network. For example if Chrome's certif…

Beautiful indeed! Only tiny stray semi-colon: "Our Windows network security monitor also looks for; domains or IP addresses..." I wouldn't mention it but for that fact that attention to detail is clearly important to you judging by the design of both the site and the app!

Thanks, I'll fix it.

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

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Post by eps »

greenwalls wrote: post #88
eps wrote: 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 o…

Sorry, I should've been more specific - does your app talk to your servers when it's up for reasons other than checking for updates? If yes, is there a way to switch it all off?

I'm sure you can understand why I'm asking. In fact, it'd be ideal if the update checks would have the "remind" option like Bvckup2 has it - https://bvckup2.com/img/r8/screenshot-4-preferences.png

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