Just finished watching a vid by Barnacules and it looks very interesting, anybody here use it? and what are your experiences? also if you use it are you using the free version or did you pay for a registered version.
looks neat, installing.
dang kinda expensive.
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I use it (free version). So far I like it.
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what is it exactly?
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Firewall, network monitoring tool......
oh ok like wireshark.
I have the paid version. It is good software and works well. Im not exactly sure if it is worth the price. I was initially fascinated watching all the connections my system was making to thew web. If you really want to keep tabs on what is happening on a particular system without rooting through massive firewall logs, this software is very nice. I use to use ZedLan Log analyzer for windows firewall. It is nice too but not nearly as polished as GlassWire.
I was excited about it and hoping to find some "unwanted" network connectivity that I could clamp down on.... but nope. This would be lots of fun to install on a machine riddled with malware. On a clean machine it's just a pretty graph the sits in the tray and occasionally notifies you.
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Not quite. Wireshark is a monitoring tool that is more a raw packet sniffer listening on the interface itself. Where GlassWire is more of a dashboard type monitoring software with some basic firewall rules and detection. GlassWire focuses more on ease of use and alerts for suspicious activity.
On a side note if you're looking for something like Wireshark but easier to look at, The Fiddler is a pretty neat tool.
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Yeah i saw this video earlier today.
It looks like a very interesting program.
allthough i personaly not going to use it probably.
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The reason why?
I think its a great tool for monitoring your network traffic.
it also has some cool feutures to block things.
However wenn i´m working on my desktop, i dont want to be bottered with tools that constantly warn me wenn i´m going to view a webpage, or whatever i do online.
i think it would just annoy me in the long run, because no matter what site you are visiting, traffic analyzing happens allnost everywhere.
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I thought it would annoy me as well, however its a one time only pop up per instance. so after a day or two I hardly ever get any popups unless there is any new activity.
This morning Nvidia was trying to call home to its update server without me telling it to. i was on mobile capped data as well, so glass wire saved my ass(and my wallet)!
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Cool, thanks for the link.....
Actually a day after I made the thread I installed it on Win 7 running in a KVM, basically I wanted a easy way to see network traffic coming out of the KVM since I updated Win 7 to the point it is asking me to upgrade to Win X, and I had installed Spy Bot Anti-Beacon earlier so I wanted some conformation that it was doing it's job. Glass Wire gives a easy to see graph of current activity with history so it's easy to tell if the two pieces of software are doing their job. So Far So Good! Lol.