Beautiful new software firewall and network monitor #

GlassWire is a network monitor and firewall for Windows with a lickable UI:

GlassWire

Only downside appears to be that outbound connections from new apps are not automatically blocked.

On a related note, I recently tested a number of firewalls with Comodo's HIPS and Firewall Leak Test Suite; the only product to pass all tests with virtually no setup or configuration was SpyShelter Firewall (though I didn't test Comodo's own fireall product; the download was over 230MB, compared to SpyShelter's 10MB).

(via Hacker News)

/windows | Aug 25, 2014


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