My previous post on here was about how to stop Microsoft from spying on you with Windows 10 but this time im going to show you a program that can monitor what is actually going on with your computers connections and this isnt just for Windows 10 either. This neat program will monitor all your internet traffic not just the stuff going to Microsoft and will alert you to when a program makes a new connection too which is a good feature to have because when you install new software sometimes you dont know if it has installed something in the background that wants to phone home whereas this program will tell you exactly what is going on with your connections.
Its called Glasswire and you can find it at Glasswire.com and even though it says it is a firewall its much more than just that, it has graphs that show you exactly what is happening with your internet connection so you can see if you have a rogue piece of software that is connecting and eating up all your bandwidth which is useful if you are on a metered connection where bandwidth is a premium.
Usually to get this kind of information you would have to install a piece of software called a packet sniffer but then you would have to go through thousands of packets (text files) to see what was exactly happening which is a long and time consuming process where as Glasswire does all that work for you and shows you in an easy to read format so you dont have to spend ages trying to work out whats happening, this program does it all for you. Again i am not getting paid from Glasswire for this im just sharing it as its a free program that can help you understand what your computer is connecting to.
Its called Glasswire and you can find it at Glasswire.com and even though it says it is a firewall its much more than just that, it has graphs that show you exactly what is happening with your internet connection so you can see if you have a rogue piece of software that is connecting and eating up all your bandwidth which is useful if you are on a metered connection where bandwidth is a premium.
Usually to get this kind of information you would have to install a piece of software called a packet sniffer but then you would have to go through thousands of packets (text files) to see what was exactly happening which is a long and time consuming process where as Glasswire does all that work for you and shows you in an easy to read format so you dont have to spend ages trying to work out whats happening, this program does it all for you. Again i am not getting paid from Glasswire for this im just sharing it as its a free program that can help you understand what your computer is connecting to.
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