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Who is your computer talking to? Your browser isn't the only application that's sending data online. Your word processor might be phoning home; a file undelete utility might be talking to its mother ship, and even Windows' own services may surprise you. These are not necessarily nefarious actions, but they're worth knowing about. GlassWire is a free and beautiful utility that lays all of this bare.

One of the most important things about GlassWire is that it's beautiful. This isn't a minor detail: For many users, network security is equal parts daunting and tedious. Having a tool that's just fun to pop open and watch throughout your day makes a big difference. The graph scrolls in real-time, and there's a zoom slider across the bottom of the window letting you check out longer periods of time at a glance.

When you see traffic suddenly spiking, you can easily drill in and find out exactlyMi fallout cast. which application(s) on your computer caused that spike, and which Internet hosts they were communicating with. The graph also makes it easy to tell apart outbound traffic (uploads, shown in yellow) and inbound traffic (downloads, shown in pink).

To get a bigger sense of what your network traffic looks like, you can zoom the graph out to show three hours, 24 hours, or an entire week's worth of network activity. There's no lag when you do this: All filtering operations are instant.

The graph then lets you filter activity out by application. For instance, what does Rdio's network traffic look like? How much data does it download over a day of listening, and does it use the network constantly or in brief spurts? GlassWire makes this both easy and fun to determine.

Next, you can filter network activity by protocol. This can reveal some surprising information in itself. For example, I use a webmail client: I don't have a traditional email client such as Outlook, so I did not expect to see any SMTP activity on my computer. GlassWire reminded me one of my applications does send data to the Internet over SMTP—and it's not an email client.

Because it gives you such a wealth of information, it only makes sense for GlassWire to also let you do something with your newfound knowledge. That's where the built-in firewall comes in. The Firewall tab lets you review the list of all apps communicating, each with its own miniature traffic chart. It also lists which network hosts each app communicated with—and a single click will muzzle that app for good. If you already use a firewall you're happy with, you can disable GlassWire's built-in firewall from this same tab without having to dig through a Settings dialog.

A line chart is handy for tracking traffic over time; but for cumulative total, something like a pie chart works better. That's what you'll find on the Usage tab: A simple and lovely look at your traffic totals for the day, week, or month. This tab uses the same zoom slider as the Graph tab, making it possible to pick your own custom durations and zoom in on traffic spikes to see how much data was consumed, and by which apps.

If you use a metered connection, if your ISP claims you haven't been reasonably using your so-called 'unlimited plan,' the Usage tab offers invaluable totals.

Finally, there's all the traffic that's going on when you're not even using the computer. After all, your apps don't need you to be there to communicate. Some may even patiently bide their time, waiting for the keyboard and mouse to become idle for some time, before they start talking to their control servers or network peers.

Like everything else GlassWire monitors, this is not necessarily nefarious: Maybe your online backup app simply doesn't want to slow down your connection when you need it. Still, keeping tabs on these things is healthy, and that's what Alerts are for. When you unlock your workstation, GlassWire also pops up unobtrusive messages next to the system tray to let you know if anything important happened.

GlassWire's doesn't just make it easy to learn about your network activity: It actually makes it fun. That is its biggest triumph, accomplished through beautiful design and a zippy, responsive interface. Unlike many other security apps, there's nothing alarmist about it, and it doesn't attempt to upsell you on anything.

The app is entirely free, although a statement on the developer's website says it intends to 'add new features in the future for paying supporters.'

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  This very attractive utility does a great job of monitoring your network activity, and its built-in firewall lets you instantly block anything suspicious.

  Pros

  • Beautifully informative
  • Very fast
  • Free (in its current form)

• Pros

  Attractive, flexible, well-designed views of network traffic and usage. Easy control of Windows Firewall. Program control. Notifications for security events and other network events.

• Cons

  Requires network savvy the average consumer lacks. Network scanner doesn't check for security problems. Expensive.

• Bottom Line

  GlassWire offers stylish views of network traffic and usage, controls Windows Firewall, and flags important network events, but understanding it requires considerable network knowledge.

Given that Windows Firewall does a good job of keeping out unwanted connections, the demand for standalone personal firewalls is down. Third-party firewalls mostly appear as free utilities or components in security suites, where they do offer benefits beyond what's built in. GlassWire is not your typical third-party firewall utility, though. Its developers call it a 'visual firewall,' and indeed, it gives you serious transparency into your network activity. However, you need an uncommon level of network sophistication to interpret its charts and understand its notifications.

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GlassWire, currently at version 2.0, comes in three editions, Basic, Pro, and Elite. These cost $39, $69, and $99 per year, a change from the previous version's higher but one-time prices. There's an option to pay in Bitcoin, if you wish. At the Basic level you can install it on one PC, keep six months of history, and make up to three remote connections. With Pro, those go up to three PCs, a year of history, and 10 remote connections. Finally, the Elite edition lets you install on 10 PCs, with unlimited history and unlimited remote connections. If you switch PCs, you can easily deactivate the license on the old one and use it on the new.

Check Point ZoneAlarm Free Firewall and Comodo Firewall are among the few third-party personal firewall utilities still around, and they offer their services for free. GlassWire also comes in a free edition, with one month of history and one remote connection permitted, but the free edition lacks all the advanced features of the paid ones. When you install the free edition, you get all those features for a week, so you can see whether you need them.

Traffic and Usage Graphs

Downloading and installing GlassWire is a simple process. The installer advises, but doesn't require, that you reboot after installation. The main window is attractive and well-designed, with icons at the top to select the five main pages, Alerts, Firewall, Graph, Things, and Usage. A pull-down menu at left gives access to help and settings.

At launch, the program immediately starts graphing network traffic, using different colors for downloads and uploads. You can select from a dozen skins to change the graph colors; I chose Candies & Bubblegum. By default, the graph shows the most recent five minutes of activity. Once you've been using the program for a while, you can get a different view by choosing to display the last three hours, or the last day, week, month, or year of activity.

Especially in these longer-term views, you'll find markers on the graph that represent events such as the first time GlassWire saw a particular program connect to the network. You can click a marker to see details, temporarily stopping the moving graph. You can also click a spike in the graph to see just what programs were active at the time, and how much bandwidth they were using. Things look weird? Click the camera icon to snap a screenshot for later reference.

Switching the graph to Apps view lets you examine the online activity of just one app. In a similar fashion, the Traffic view lets you filter activity by protocol, perhaps to see just the HTTP traffic. If necessary, you can drill down to see which programs used the selected protocol.

Clicking the Usage icon charts the overall incoming and outgoing bandwidth usage for the current day, week, or month. Three columns break down that usage by apps, hosts, and type of traffic. If your computer has a data plan that costs extra after you reach a certain threshold, you can configure GlassWire to warn you when you're approaching that limit.

The two graphs and data plan warning are completely functional in the free edition. The free edition also reports when it detects a new program connection, or when an app connects to a suspicious host. It also handles a single remote connection. The advanced features described below require payment, however.

Internet of Things

Clicking the Things icon brings up a page that lists all Internet of Things devices on your network. Initially you may need to click Scan, and you can also configure it to scan the network periodically. If you're using the free edition, it reports how many devices it found, but notes that you must purchase a paid edition to see the details.

GlassWire reports the name of the device, when available, and the network to which it's connected. It reports when it first detected the device, and lists its IP and MAC addresses. Those with some network savvy can use the IP and MAC address to identify unknown devices, and click to add an identifying label. There's also an option to see the full network name of devices that have one, rather than just the IP address. For example, my smart TV showed up as viziocastdisplay.attlocal.net.

Like Bitdefender Home Scanner, GlassWire remembers any labels you enter on subsequent scans. But the Bitdefender product goes farther, checking the network and devices for security problems and vulnerabilities. The network scanner built into Avast Free Antivirus also reports on security problems. You'll find similar network security scanning as a component in Reason Core Security and ESET Internet Security.

Firewall Control

Clicking the Firewall tab brings up a list of apps and their network traffic, including a mini-graph of recent traffic. It doesn't look like it, but the actual firewall functionality comes from Windows Firewall. GlassWire just interacts with the built-in firewall to handle program control and report on activity. The program's developers reasoned that making use of existing technology was better than disabling it and bolting on a separate firewall the way ZoneAlarm, Comodo Firewall, and others do.

I really like being able to control the Windows Firewall without having to look at it. In GlassWire's default mode, clicking the flame icon next to any program puts it on the block list. You can also set it to block all network traffic, if you wish. Doing so doesn't change the allowed or blocked status of known apps, it just blocks all connections until you end the blocking mode.

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The one thing that distinguishes most third-party firewalls from Windows Firewall is that they manage which programs can access the network and internet. You can dig into Windows Firewall's advanced settings to do something similar, but it doesn't give you much help. Finale 2014 free trial. When you turn on the Ask to Connect mode, GlassWire takes on program control. Specifically, it asks you for confirmation the first time it sees a program attempting to access the network or internet. This doesn't affect programs that have already connected at least once. To avoid a veritable storm of popups, I suggest you run GlassWire in the default Click to Block mode for a while before enabling Ask to Connect.

Why would you choose to block a program's internet access? One reason would that you suspect it's malware. To confirm that suspicion, or put it to rest, GlassWire lets you submit the file to VirusTotal, a service that checks submitted apps against more than five dozen antivirus engines and reports how many consider the file to be malware. It starts by sending a numeric hash of the file—if VirusTotal has already seen the file you get a rating immediately. If the hash doesn't get results, it submits the entire file for analysis, which can take a few minutes. Either way, the result is a figure like '0/68,' which means that out of 68 different antivirus engines, none found the file to be malicious.

Before you can use the VirusTotal feature, you must go into settings and agree to the VirusTotal terms of service. There's also an option to analyze every app when it first exhibits network activity. The settings page does warn that the automated analysis could be a problem if you have a limited data plan.

I enabled scanning all new apps and launched a low-risk malware sample. GlassWire reported the new connection, and quickly came back with VirusTotal's rating, 55/67. Sometimes VirusTotal does throw false positives, but when 55 of 67 antivirus engines call a file malicious, you'd better believe it is. It would be nice if GlassWire could notify the user when a file gets such a high malware score, but VirusTotal's terms of service don't permit using it as an antivirus engine.

Advanced Features and Notifications

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To see and configure the many network-related events that GlassWire can monitor, open the Settings window and choose Security. Here you see a baker's dozen of options, most of which are enabled by default. In each case, you can turn notifications on or off and choose whether it displays a desktop notification or just puts the info on the Alerts tab. The Things Monitor has an additional setting; you can choose notification only for new devices that connect (the default), or get an alert for every device that joins or leaves the network.

By default, GlassWire notifies you when a new device joins the network, when a program first connects, when an app connects to a suspicious host, and when a GlassWire remote session starts. It also warns of changes to the HOSTS file, networking drivers, applications, and proxy settings.

Out of the box, several other notifications aren't enabled. You can set it to alert on changes to DNS settings and disconnection of your internet connection. If you enable the Wi-Fi Evil Twin alert, it warns when your device encounters a hotspot trying to masquerade as something safe. GlassWire can warn if it detects ARP spoofing, a technique used to snoop on or modify network traffic. Finally, you can set it to report a summary of activity that took place while your system was idle.

Do You Need It?

Here are a few scenarios that illustrate the kind of user who might consider Glasswire. Carol is a dedicated Street Fighter player, with ambitions to go pro and win actual cash. She knows every inch of her network and keeps it tuned, because a little lag can get you fragged. Ira is a popular streamer on Twitch's Creative channel, with a ton of subscribers. He, too, demands network perfection. Malia works as a network security officer at a Fortune 500 corporation, and demands the same level of perfection in her home network. GlassWire's slick, attractive interface gives these three the deep insight they need, making it well worth the subscription fee.

GlassWire definitively delivers exactly what it promises, but many users lack the knowledge required to understand its notifications and interpret its lovely graphs. This is not a product for the average Jo who just wants the Wi-Fi to work so she can stream cat videos on her iPad. Not sure where you stand? Take GlassWire for a seven-day trial and see if it suits you.

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