I’m brand new to GlassWire as well as this forum. The program seems pretty cool so far (using Windows 10).
One little problem though: GlassWire’s firewall appears to be in conflict with Norton 360. It won’t turn on, block anything, etc. And I’m failing to figure it out, lol.
“Your Windows OS Firewall is disabled. Firewall disabled by Norton 360.”
All of GlassWire’s executable files have rules in Norton’s firewall allowing GlassWire traffic. (Several appeared automatically with installation, and I manually created the rest.) I added GlassWire.exe as a real time exclusion (from auto-protect, script control & so on).
There doesn’t appear to be anything else is either settings menu to to improve or enable compatibility. All of the discussions I’m seeing here on the topic are several or more years old and I’m not seeing any solutions so far.
Take a look at this thread, it might give you some clues.
Yes its about AVG but i would say the same thing is happening with Norton. You cant use Windows defender firewall with another firewall on the same level. If Norton firewall used Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) then you can have the two firewalls running, because Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) does not interact in any level with Windows Firewall.
I was having the same issue with Comodo AV/FW/IS so after a few week of pulling out my hair I got rid of Comodo. It seems that some Antivirus and Firewall programs don’t play nice with GlassWire.
I’d honestly ditch Norton. They have a long time history of poor performance and problems.
Seeing a mention of AVG… AVG is a subsidiary of Avast, who was caught stealing/selling browsing history. They are not to ever be trusted.
Seeing Comodo mentioned, they used to provide SSL licenses to known malware domains, then tried to deny it publicly. Yet another company to completely avoid.
Honestly, the best antivirus you can use is Microsoft Defender. To expand your malware protection, use Malwarebytes which works perfectly well with Defender.
For firewalls, Glasswire does a nice job in showing what happens - as it works with the Microsoft Defender Firewall via API. Though I admit, I still to this day miss Agnitum Outpost Firewall Pro. That was the best firewall I’ve ever seen and used.
