Do you want to find out what’s going on in behind the scenes of your computer and
home network?
Then stick around to find out how.
OK so the first thing you’re going to want to do is open up a web browser and go to glasswire.com
So you can see I’ve already got the website up here and I’m actually downloading it
at the moment while I talk to you.
So, you’ll see here you can download the free version of GlassWire, just here.
So you don’t need to buy it but buying it does unlock other features.
So you’ll also see here, PCWorld, Livehacker have given it some accolades.
Basically, what it comes down to is that it’s a network monitoring, threat monitoring firewall
and antivirus all-in-one.
So you’ll see there, whenever a new connection happens, you’ll get notified of that down
in the bottom right hand corner with a little pop-up.
You can go back and review what happened while you were out if you’ve left your computer
on.
You’ve got remote server monitoring.
That’s only available for Windows servers.
So if you’ve got a Linux server unfortunately it’s not going to work for you.
The internet and bandwidth use it’s monitoring so you can see what programs are hogging the
bandwidth.
And pretty much that’s it and you you’ve also got the option of buying it there.
So now that we’ve installed it – we haven’t installed it – now that we’ve downloaded
the software, let’s install it.
So it just comes up with a security warning on the other screen.
I’ll just pull that across here.
It’s version 1.2.
I Accept.
That should be fine, I’ll hit Next, and Next, and Next.
So it shouldn’t take that long to install… and it’s done.
So what we’ll do is we’ll run it, so hit Finish, and this is what you’ll be presented
with.
OK so it’s already registered…
couple there…
So I’m using a program called Insync that works with multiple Google Drive accounts,
so that’s the first connection that’s made there.
Again, there’s another one…
Framework provider, possibly to do with the website.
OK so let’s go and have a look through the features here while it’s gathering some
information.
So this is your rolling information so you can change it from 5 minutes, 3 hours, 24
hours, a week or a month.
OK you can pause it; you can take a snapshot, or, you can do that; you can go and scroll
through the different areas and just see what is out there being contacted.
Looks like Microsoft Malware.
So you can unpause it just by right-clicking.
OK, so then you’ve got your Firewall tab.
Now this will show all the different programs that are trying to access externally, such
as CoreSync here; this is to do with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Malware like we
saw before, GlassWire, Insync.
So you can block them if you want, so for example...
OK so that might be a paid feature – oh no, there we go, if you click there.
So if you click on the little fire that will block that particular program.
OK
So let’s have a look at usage now.
We can see here so far it’s only used 205 KB.
So you can see there the GlassWire has probably used the most so far but we haven’t really
been doing anything.
So if we leave this for a little bit and come back you’ll start to see the difference
in the usage.
You’ve also got Apps there so you can break it down, and Traffic, so you can see what
traffic is using, whether it’s the HTTB protocol or DNS, whichever it’s using there.
So then we can have a look at network.
This is one of the paid features so it will show you through who is connected to your
WiFi network.
And Alerts, these are just the little alerts that will come up in the bottom right hand
corner and tell you when things are accessing things.
It means you can check out and see whether or not they should be or they shouldn’t
be.
So you can break it down by Apps and you can see there when they’re doing their things.
And you can see here… so this is the type… so Steam, obviously.
There’s Creative Suite again, Microsoft Malware protection.
So it just breaks it all down.
What I’m going to do is leave this run for a little while and then come back and then
see what has changed.
Actually, one of the things before I do that, is here’s the Menu, you might as well say,
and you can see you can activate it, you can buy it there, you can change the language,
changing the skins.
Let’s have a look at green and pink…
So that’s not huge changes but it’s still nice if you want to get a different change
there.
You’ve got Settings, Igcognito…
Ah, Incognito if you, for example, you don’t want your traffic monitored for a certain
period of time, you can go incognito and that will not record it using this program.
OK, so that’s pretty much it for that.
You Exit, obviously.
So we’ll leave this for a little bit and we’ll come back and see where it’s at.
OK so now that we’ve let that run for a little while, let’s go back to it and see
what it’s found out.
OK so we have left it for a while and you can see here that it’s going through and
still recording the data.
You can see the apps that have been recording the data itself and the traffic where it’s
been coming through.
So, let’s go to Firewall and we can see here at the moment, Google Chrome is using
some data, and Microsoft Outlook, Google Drive, CoreSync, Insync, and as always, I can block
those if I need to by just clicking on the fire.
OK so then we’ve got a usage and we’ll see I’ve used 91 MB now.
Not a huge amount but still enough to give us a little bit more of an indication of where
the traffic is.
So you’ve got Google Chrome there, it’s used the most, and its 79.2 MB from Google
videos, so we can assume that’s a YouTube video.
I can see hypertext transfer there, let’s bring it out a little bit more.
There we go.
So you can see https, IMAPS, that’s emails, DNS, NetBIOS, http… so you’ve got all
the traffic types there, all the hosts, so these will be websites or the IPs that have
been contacted in order to get the information and the apps that are using them all.
So you can see there TeamViewer, GlassWire, Steam, Steam again, Microsoft Office, Outlook,
Insync, Google Chrome.
So you can split it down by apps if you like, and the traffic itself.
So you can see what’s using that other traffic, what’s using the https traffic, scrape,
ok and network.
Now I have put in my GlassWire key so currently it is activated and you can see here I’m
going to block these IP addresses out, purely because I don’t want anyone out there getting
any ideas.
Anyway, so then we can go to Alerts and we can see here from date all the alerts that
have come up and what the programs were.
So that’s pretty much breaking it all down… we’ll go back to All… midify that a little
bit.
There we go.
So basically for a program that is… this is a program that is going to help you see
what programs are using what data.
It will also help you find if there’s a trojan horse on your machine.
If there is, I would always recommend using Malwarebytes; but if you wanted to see if
maybe it’s something like that then you can always check in the firewall and just
see what programs are using what and if it’s something you’re a bit sus on you can always
just block it, and then if stops something that was working then you know, you can turn
that back on.
You can turn off the firewall or turn it on if you want but I recommend leaving it on
because it’s there to protect you.
And it doesn’t really make your machine run that much slower.
So that’s pretty much the rundown for the GlassWire software and I believe that this
is a really good all-in-one solution.
So after using this software on a couple of machines and using it for about a week, having
a look at the ins and outs of it, I really like how it is an all-in-one solution.
It works on your network monitoring as well as antivirus and firewall; so it’s a pretty
good all-in-one solution.
The one thing I would like to add though is that this would be an excellent solution if
it had one more feature, and that is specific program bandwidth throttling.
So what I mean by this is, say for example Google Drive is hogging all your uploads,
then having a feature in there where you could, say, limit that one program to upload at a
reduced rate, like 50%, 10%, whatever you need to set it at, then that would be fantastic
and that would make this program the best networking tool that I’ve used.
So at the moment you’ve got to go out there and buy separate tools to limit the bandwidth
for programs.
One of them, for example, is NetLimiter, but that’s another expense and if it could be
included in this software I think that it would be really, really great for a lot of
users out there, especially those that are looking to purchase the software.
Now I’ve provided the links down below so you can download this yourself and you can
also purchase it direct from the GlassWire website.
Full disclosure: GlassWire did reach out and contact me and gave me a free licence for
this software however they didn’t pay me and they didn’t influence my decisions on
anything that I made in this video.
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