Filtering Usage Help

GlassWire General
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Hi,

I’m a new GlassWire user and I’m trying to evaluate the program. I’m using GlassWire Pro. On the Firewall tab there is a Firewall switch (which is ON) and a drop down set to “Ask to Connect.” Then there are a number of applications on the system. The only options I seem to have here is to block an application or not. I was hoping that GlassWire would support a more robust blocking and filtering driver. In particular I was hoping to filter specific hosts/IPs associated with applications and run in full whitelist mode. I’m hoping this is just a user error on my part and I didn’t just waste my money on this application. The first problem is that I cannot get GlassWire to consistently “Ask to Connect” - it is allowing tons of requests through without asking me anything.

Example:

  • Host Process for Windows Services (svchost.exe) is actually a bunch of win32 service modules loaded under different instances of svchost.exe. If I block this then I cannot get DNS resolution to occur any longer, clearly undesirable. However Windows sends lots of telemetry out from services and thus I cannot block the telemetry IPs individually.

Perhaps I’m getting this wrong and just don’t know how to use the program. Please enlighten me.

Thanks

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GW will give you a comprehensive answer but GW uses Windows Firewall and I take it ,unless GW has modified the firewall then MS rules apply . You can block individual IP,s using Windows Firewall by getting up start and typing in firewall and clicking windows firewall with advanced settings there is then a long list of select and clicks but as I may have the wrong end of the stick in what you want I will leave it to GW.

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Unfortunately we don’t support host blocking yet, but we hope to add host blocking in the future. We cannot block the Windows telemetry IP addresses yet.