Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire • Hacker News Board

walterbell wrote: post #3

Nice graphs. On the site, why did you choose to promote the monitoring features over the outbound firewall features? Can it import existing whitelists or blacklists? If there are competing products (paid or free), a comparison would be helpful.

Our firewall uses the Windows firewall system so it doesn't add instability to your computer. I was afraid it would sound kind of lame to talk about the awesome firewall when it's more of a firewall manager. I think the monitoring feature is the most useful thing because you can go back in time and see your network activity for up to 30 days, or of course clear your history if you want. For Mac there is Little Snitch but for Windows I haven't seen anything that has a "network time machine" like we have and also gives notifications like we do. The way GlassWire organizes the data is kind of unique. I made this application for myself due to my own paranoia.

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

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Post by greenwalls » Mon, Aug 25, 2014, 5:23 PM UTC

EGreg wrote: post #2

How do I know this isn't a trojan? :P

Feel free to check it out in a virtual machine if you're worried, or upload to VirusTotal.com.

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

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Post by greenwalls » Mon, Aug 25, 2014, 5:25 PM UTC

lumpypua wrote: post #5

fra wrote: post #4

Really nice looking page. I'd love to get an OSX version...

http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html

We're working on a Mac version. Also I agree Little Snitch is cool. We concentrate more on visualizing network activity and we have a "network time machine" feature our UI allows you to go back and forth in time. Also I don't like how Little Snitch always pops up those alerts. I wanted the user to see the alerts but not have to always "OK" every little network activity. I felt like users tend to just press "OK" all the time anyway...