Worth it for Win10 - GlassWire

[Butters]

GlassWire firewall worth buying?

[⛧EyMi Mayhem⛧]

For private use, use the windows firewall, thats all you need..

Or are you clicking on everything u see?

[Omega]

No. The default Windows 10 firewall is all you need. A firewall isn't all that complicated and all of them generally do the exact same.

The only reason you would want to buy a license for this firewall is for the pretty web interface. So yeah.. it's just a gimmick and not worth the money at all.

Your router has it's own firewall already, so actually running one on Windows isn't even required. But it's best if you do have one in case something nasty gets inside your network.

[Butters]

⛧EyMi Mayhem⛧ eredeti hozzászólása:

For private use, use the windows firewall, thats all you need..

Or are you clicking on everything u see?

No. Why ?

[C2Dan88]

If you want to manage and visualize network track traffic with fancy interface then go with GlassWire.
If not then just stick with Windows Defender.

[Omega]

If you want to make your network more idiot proof maybe make a Pihole from a NanoPi.
https://pi-hole.net/

By default it blocks ads, trackers and malicious domains network wide. And it's fully customizable.

It also has a pretty network interface detailing all DNS requests and what it did and didn't block.

[[☥] - CJ -]

I use Glasswire as well for monitoring

i've considering buying it multiple times for Basic using the discount
But i'm just not down for paying for it yearly, so i just use the free portion of it.

[iceman1980]

Omega eredeti hozzászólása:

No. The default Windows 10 firewall is all you need. A firewall isn't all that complicated and all of them generally do the exact same.

The only reason you would want to buy a license for this firewall is for the pretty web interface. So yeah.. it's just a gimmick and not worth the money at all.

Your router has it's own firewall already, so actually running one on Windows isn't even required. But it's best if you do have one in case something nasty gets inside your network.

Not even close to the truth... "All do the same thing"... No.. just no.

[Omega]

Sphere eredeti hozzászólása:

Omega eredeti hozzászólása:

No. The default Windows 10 firewall is all you need. A firewall isn't all that complicated and all of them generally do the exact same.

The only reason you would want to buy a license for this firewall is for the pretty web interface. So yeah.. it's just a gimmick and not worth the money at all.

Your router has it's own firewall already, so actually running one on Windows isn't even required. But it's best if you do have one in case something nasty gets inside your network.

Not even close to the truth... "All do the same thing"... No.. just no.

On the bone all firewalls do the exact same thing. Which is what I was refering to. Close port X, allow port X, block protocol X in, allow protocol X out etc..

I wasn't refering to pretty graphical interfaces, CLIs, customization, application intergration and other fancy stuff.

[iceman1980]

No. That is not all they do.... Firewalls that use "ports" are only Network layer protocol devices there is application layer firewalls and then there is real-time packet inspection firewalls which look for viral signatures.

No all firewalls are not the same some also don't just "close port allow port etc" you should know this as Linux has a number of distinct features much like CISCO hardware where ports are not exclusively close they are in a "filtered state" where traffic initated at the network boundry is allowed through if it has the "ESTABLISHED" flag meaning a device already being talked to and sends a response back firewalls have become very sophisicated, especially linux IPtables.

Those DELL Firewalls you see with special licenses have very advanced firewalls which often combine intelligent capabilities such as Intrusion Detection(IDS) and Intrusion prevention(IPS) capabilities. Also CISCO recently added artificial intelligence (machine learning) to the capabilities of many of their firewall ASAs