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

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Post by jdhzzz »

rational-future wrote: post #147
gregbarbosa wrote: post #16

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).…

I'm a Windows user (go on, press the down arrow) and I don't care about app design. Give me military ship grey windows, text menus and a way to hide all icons. Windows 2000 was for me the apogee of 2D design.

I'm in on Windows 2000. Active window titles that could be set to bright colors to distinguish the active window from all the others (mine was canary yellow). I miss you Win2k.

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

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Post by voltagex_ »

maouida wrote: post #115

Bug report: After few hours of installing the app. I got a blue screen KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILUR which repeated 3 times. I removed the app from the start up list and disabled the windows service. now everything is back to normal. System: Win 8.1

If you do report it, see if there was a minidump produced. I hope the OP is also enrolled in the Windows Error Reporting program.

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

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Post by johnduhart »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #122
greenwalls wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your feedback. We'll try to add more transparency. The calling home is for software updates and it shows up on the graph, and GlassWire can even block itself.

That may be the case, but it's still not acceptable in my opinion. Calling home to fetch a new database of malicious hosts and such is fine, but calling home for analytics is not okay. At the very least, clearly disclose it and make it easy to opt out.

> but calling home for analytics is not okay

It's like you didn't even read what was written.

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

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Post by voltagex_ »

geoelectric wrote: post #143

Shamelessly bikeshedding, since I can't use the app until you have an OS X version, but would be nice if it could query my router via SNMP to get whole-network usage. That's what I currently do via NetUse, but this looks quite a bit better.

+1 on this, it's tricky to find a good SNMP monitor with the right MIBs for ADSL modems. (I hate SNMP, I once had a router I could crash with snmpbulkwalk)

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

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Post by greenwalls »

voltagex_ wrote: post #158

I wonder if the OP should set up UserVoice or similar for feature requests/voting. My wishes: * A pay-once Pro version * A plugin API so I can add my ISPs usage monitor * Per-app bandwidth limiting (difficult on Windows I think)

Good idea! How could we plugin with your ISP exactly? Any ideas that would work for a majority of people? We're still investigating that idea.
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