OP 11 November, 2019 - 11:14 PM
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Privacy is important. Windows offers a dedicated section for this. Here you can configure what data Windows and other apps can access. However, if you wish to control even more, and looking for a simple interface, today we have PrivateWin10. This application offers an intuitive interface which lets you instantly turn privacy options on and off. In simple words, Private Win10 or Private WinTen is an Advanced Privacy Tool for Windows 10.
To solve privacy issues with other software the tool includes a powerful custom firewall frontend for the windows built in firewall.
Finally there is a new build of priv10, large parts of the code base have been reworked to solve some more fundamental issues of windows firewall handling.
Most issues have been fixed and the usability greatly improved. Also many new features have been added, priv10 now shows in addition to the firewall log also a list of all open sockets with data rates. The tool is also capable of showing the remote host names for remote IP’s wherever possible it shows the domains as queried by the application as reverse DNS is very unreliable in the age of CDN’s hence its used only as a fallback.
A new feature called Tweak Guard monitors the state of the applied privacy tweaks and warns, or re applies (depending on the setting) when a tweak has been un done.
An other new feature, the Rule Guard, monitors firewall rules and prevents 3rd party changes when desired, or just warns the user (depending on the setting), this is especially useful to ensure apps from the windows store wont get internet access, as the msft store always auto adds allow rules without asking the user.
Last but not least the overview page now features an own event log showing priv10 activity.
Once you install this application, you can configure it to work as a service with the option to configure privacy, and also manage the Windows Firewall. If you ask me why this tool is better than the default option, the answer is simple. It offers straightforward options to manage privacy which is easier to understand. Also, you can use this tool to control options which are not available in Windows Privacy settings directly.
After installation, and setting this up with Admin Privileges, switch to Privacy section. It will load all the current Privacy settings on your account. Then it will offer you a list of settings which can be customized even deeper. It has options to block system access to files and registry keys in order to enforce privacy whenever Windows does not provide a satisfying setting for that.
You can manage options for:
Added
Privacy is important. Windows offers a dedicated section for this. Here you can configure what data Windows and other apps can access. However, if you wish to control even more, and looking for a simple interface, today we have PrivateWin10. This application offers an intuitive interface which lets you instantly turn privacy options on and off. In simple words, Private Win10 or Private WinTen is an Advanced Privacy Tool for Windows 10.
To solve privacy issues with other software the tool includes a powerful custom firewall frontend for the windows built in firewall.
Finally there is a new build of priv10, large parts of the code base have been reworked to solve some more fundamental issues of windows firewall handling.
Most issues have been fixed and the usability greatly improved. Also many new features have been added, priv10 now shows in addition to the firewall log also a list of all open sockets with data rates. The tool is also capable of showing the remote host names for remote IP’s wherever possible it shows the domains as queried by the application as reverse DNS is very unreliable in the age of CDN’s hence its used only as a fallback.
A new feature called Tweak Guard monitors the state of the applied privacy tweaks and warns, or re applies (depending on the setting) when a tweak has been un done.
An other new feature, the Rule Guard, monitors firewall rules and prevents 3rd party changes when desired, or just warns the user (depending on the setting), this is especially useful to ensure apps from the windows store wont get internet access, as the msft store always auto adds allow rules without asking the user.
Last but not least the overview page now features an own event log showing priv10 activity.
Once you install this application, you can configure it to work as a service with the option to configure privacy, and also manage the Windows Firewall. If you ask me why this tool is better than the default option, the answer is simple. It offers straightforward options to manage privacy which is easier to understand. Also, you can use this tool to control options which are not available in Windows Privacy settings directly.
After installation, and setting this up with Admin Privileges, switch to Privacy section. It will load all the current Privacy settings on your account. Then it will offer you a list of settings which can be customized even deeper. It has options to block system access to files and registry keys in order to enforce privacy whenever Windows does not provide a satisfying setting for that.
You can manage options for:
- Telemetry & Error Reporting
- Search and Cortana
- Windows Defender
- Privacy and Advertisement
- Microsoft Account
- Apps & Store
- Others.
- You can choose to disable OneDrive, Cloud Clipboard, Activity Feed and so on.
- Completely lock down apps to access almost everything including Account Info, Calendar, Camera and so on
- Disable Windows Store.
- Disable Advertisements
- Disable Push Notifcations and so on.
Added
- added own event log, displayed in the overview page
- added network manager listing all open sockets and currently connected networks
- added ETW tracking to obtain datarate information for sockets
- added dns inspector, dns query monitoring with fallback to reverse dns queries
— showing domain names to the remote adresses
— logging all domains every program tryed to connect to
- added tweaks to disable office 2016/2019 telemetry
- added Ribbon Toolbar to the Firewall view
— improved program list filtering a lot
— added more list view customization options
— much better category filtering
— etc…
- added Tweak Guard to automatically re apply tweaks that windows undid
— tweaks and their states are saved to tweaks.xml
— tweak changes are logged on the priv10 event log
- added Firewall Rule Guard
— firewall rule changes are identifyed on start as well as monitored on live during runtime
— Optin to automatically disable changed/added rules or to flat out always out undo all changes not done by priv10
— All 3rd party changes to firewall rules logged in the priv10 event log + notfication
- added option to reload app list from apps dropdown
- added propper modern app resource string display
- completly reworked the backend (engine and service) code
- refactored IPC code
- dropped many unnececery dependencies
- Now by default using “C:\ProgramData\PrivateWin10” instead of the application directory to store data
— If a PrivateWin10.ini is present in the applicaton directory the tool starts in portable mode instead
- reworked firewall manager and firewall rules
- reworked firewall event monitoring to make it more robust to future changes in windows
- Changed from the old and out dated COM Interface to a use Native windows firewall API’s instead
— Now supporting new windows 10 features
- reworked datagrid header handling
- and much more that I forgot to write down…
- program list browsing with arow keys when filter is engaged
- reworked AppManager class to properly work
— improved sid to app resolution performance
— properly resolving apppackage id of running modern apps by current process ID
- not uniqie service resolution is now handled properly.
- sorting by timestamp now works properly
- fixed issues with file and registry tweaks not being un don properly
- fixed issues with not applicable tweaks being sometimes shown where it could have been avoided
- and many more which I forgot to write down…
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