TinyWall is a life-changer.I always hated Windows because apps keep spying on you. This fixes it.
>>107672348uh ohh this goes against le board culture, you are supposed to shit on Windows
>>107672348Apps spy anyways, no matter the OS.Host based firewalling is only partially useful, more useful for behaving programs.
>>107672369Yeah yeah, programs can each use their own DNS. On linux there's a program called OpenSnitch (a remake of mac's LittleSnitch), which I use to deny programs access to the network, not based on hosts, just /bin/program -> deny. It can of coyrse also block lists of domains and IPsI think portmaster dors the same on windows; haven't tried it yet
>>107672348I've been telling /g/ for a decade that a good firewall config is the key to happiness.The hypercope I've gotten for my trouble is amazing: there's a large proportion of /g/tards who really think Windows has a magic "evil bit" that doesn't just hide packets from the TCP/IP stack, but can reprogram (in realtime) downstream devices to also hide "evil" packets from Wireshark etc.I mean, it's obviously so they don't have to admit they can't understand RTLFB or firewall configuration, but still, they couldn't dream up copium that doesn't make them sound like flat-earthers?
>>107673199Not host based as in hosts based, but host based as in the blocking is running on the host the program itself is.
Windows Firewall does the exact same thing
>>107673378>Windows Firewall recognizes the hash of a popular app and warns you if its compromisedretard
>>107673378True - they're almost all GUI wrappers for Windows Firewall (only Portmaster isn't) - but they come with tons of pre-made rules for morans who can't into thinking (read: /g/).
>>107673250Ok, my bad
>>107673393Literally anything. It's the other way around, system apps get a free pass.It doesn't warn about compromised or not, not what it does (it's a firewall not AV) it literally asks if the program can connect or not.
Little Snitch > *
>>107672348Abandonware, use simplwall before it gets canned too
