Glasswire will not turn off when I exit program

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@Edward7394

  1. Yes you can. And it uses the Windows Firewall API, so it’s actually blocked by Windows itself.

  2. In full Incognito mode it should still temporarily show what apps/hosts you are connecting to on the graph. Click apps at the top left of the window. It is shown temporarily in RAM I think (I will ask), but it’s not stored on the HD.

  3. Our firewall should not slow down anything at all because we use the Windows Firewall API. The products you mention use their own firewalls so I think they would be more likely to slow your network, and Avast recently confirmed they log a lot of what you do to sell to third parties, so this behavior might slow your network considerably.
    https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation
    You probably already noticed that we don’t do that. https://www.glasswire.com/privacy/

Also the applications you are comparing us to are antiviruses so they don’t really do what we do. We do however have a cool poll made by @Remah that shows what antivirus applications GlassWire users like to use. We always suggest people use antivirus applications on Windows PCs.
https://forum.glasswire.com/t/what-windows-antivirus-do-you-use-2020

Thanks for your other feedback and suggestions.

  1. You can go to the task manager and kill our service there. It is called “GlassWire Control Service”. I don’t recall people asking us to have the ability to completely kill GlassWire easily through the app itself, but we will discuss this idea with our team and how it may help or hurt user security.

  2. The history should also delete the info in the “Usage” tab, so there might be a misunderstanding here. It could be that when you went to “usage” again then GlassWire had already gathered some data between your deleting the data and checking the window.

By the way, some of our customers do like to run GlassWire in Incognito all the time because they just like the security alerts and firewall settings so that might be something you’re interested in if you prefer not to log anything ever. And of course we ourselves can never see your data or give it to a third party even with a court order and all encryption keys, because your GlassWire graph data never leaves your PC. We wish other companies did the same.

Thanks!