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

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Post by greenwalls »

agildehaus wrote: post #59

Beautiful. I can easily see using this regularly on my Windows machines. Some items: 1) It'd be nice to be able to scroll around directly on the graph using mouse gestures (middle-click drag?). 2) Graphing of bandwidth seems to be off somehow. If I do a speedtest.net, my ~104Mbps transfer shows up on the graph as 38 Mbps and the graph scale shows a max of 20 Mbps. http://imgur.com/QkZMVvj

I use Speedtest quite a bit and I think they estimate your speed via a system that doesn't require you actually hit their transfer rate. I could be wrong though... we'll look closer and see what's going on there. I agree dragging right/left on the graph would be cool. Thanks for the complements and feedback!

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

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Post by eps »

greenwalls wrote: post #30
purpl3p3rs0n wrote: post #27

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 have to declare that the app is "DPI aware" in the manifest and implement few things that go along with that promise. Just google it, it's fairly simple.

While I got you here, can I ask how many people worked on this and how long did it take? Just curious.

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

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Post by driverdan »

greenwalls wrote: post #61
agildehaus wrote: post #59

Beautiful. I can easily see using this regularly on my Windows machines. Some items: 1) It'd be nice to be able to scroll around directly on the graph using mouse gestures (middle-click drag?). 2) Graphing of bandwidth seems to be off somehow. If I do a speedtest.net, my ~104Mbps transfer shows up on the graph as 38 Mbps and the graph scale shows a max of 20 Mbps. http://imgur.com/QkZMVvj

I use Speedtest quite a bit and I think they estimate your speed via a system that doesn't require you actually hit their transfer rate. I could be wrong though... we'll look closer and see what's going on there. I agree dragging right/left on the graph would be cool. Thanks for the complements and feedback!

They definitely do real bandwidth measuring.

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

#64

Post by ejp »

This is excellent - I was looking for similar functionality just recently in the Windows networking system. I look forward to seeing what the paid features are!

Here's my minor feature request (I'm sure you'll get a hundred or so today) - how about a config setting to turn on an automatic virus scan of the executable on first network activity? I imagine this would not be enabled by default for performance reasons, but I'd like to run it this way for a few days before reverting to default settings.

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

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Post by Wintamute »

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).…

+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.

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

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Post by greenwalls »

ejp wrote: post #64

This is excellent - I was looking for similar functionality just recently in the Windows networking system. I look forward to seeing what the paid features are! Here's my minor feature request (I'm sure you'll get a hundred or so today) - how about a config setting to turn on an automatic virus scan of the executable on first network activity? I imagine this would not be enabled by default for performance reasons, bu…

ejp, you can manually do a virus scan of an exe on first network activity. Click the desktop alert then mouse over the file name and click "virus scan". This uses your own antiviruse software, not ours. Therefore if your antivirus is not up to date your scan won't be. We also thought about adding a virustotal.com upload there. Maybe we will add this as an option that's turned off by default. I worried that some users may complain about too much CPU usage. Thanks for the feedback/compliment!

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

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Post by gcb0 »

cledet wrote: post #23
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).…

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.
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