1/22/2024 0 Comments Glasswire forum![]() ![]() GlassWire, known for its intuitive endpoint security and traffic monitoring solution, has a longstanding presence in the IT observability market. Thank you.This move is a significant milestone in Domotz's mission to provide effortless network visibility and IT infrastructure monitoring and management through a centralized, user-friendly platform. When I change the mode to “Ask to Connect,” I see an alert saying, “Internet Connection Was Lost.” I also tried the “Block All” mode which seems to work as expected, however. Now that it has been about an hour since I tried deleting the programs from the Firewall Tab, and about a half hour since resetting the mode to “Click to Block,” The Firewall Tab has filled up again with network programs and everything seems to be running smoothly. After connecting my local router, those other hosts disappeared from Things. At that time, Glasswire showed me a large number of unfamiliar hosts in the Things Tab. The only unusual thing I recall was when I first moved here and connected my computer directly to the Internet connection without a router. To answer your questions about my Internet provider, if there is some application of theirs running on my service, it would have to be located outside of my router’s firewall. None connected until I changed the mode dropdown to “Click to Block” and suddenly there were many “First Network Activity” alerts as programs began accessing the Internet one after the other. I tried many other network-accessing programs. I think those programs were just asking to connect to the local network. ![]() Internet Explorer was one of them but when I tried to go to a website, it complained that there was no Internet connection. Then, a very few of the programs actually asked to connect. I selected “Ask to Connect,” restarted the computer and turned on the GW firewall. I turned off the GW firewall and deleted all the programs from the Firewall Tab. Some apps will add back their rules even after they have been removed from the Windows Firewall API. I’d recommend removing that other software first before resetting the firewall. One potential problem that could have caused this is if you are using another firewall simultaneously with ours. You’ll then need to turn “On” the GlassWire firewall, then you can activate our “Ask to connect” mode. Now reinstall GlassWire with the “reset firewall” option checked. To solve the issue you should probably uninstall GlassWire in add/remove programs, then go to the Windows Firewall control panel and choose “restore defaults”. For example, maybe you used another firewall application in the past that somehow caused issues with the Windows Firewall API. In this case it appears there is something wrong with your Windows Firewall API rules. I see from your post you are trying to do a clean install of GlassWire to solve the issue. Our “Block all” mode is the mode that should block all network activity. That is very unusual and I don’t believe I recall anyone ever reporting that before. It does not stop all network activity on your PC. ![]() Should “Ask to Connect” force all programs wanting to connect to ask first? Thank you for your “Ask to connect” will ask you if you want an app to connect to the Internet with an “Allow” or “Deny” prompt. My thought is that I am missing some important step, but I cannot see what that is, at this point. After that process, “Ask to Connect” still only blocks everything from connecting. The only way I can get my programs to connect is by either turning the firewall off or by setting it to “Click to Block.” I have tried reinstalling GW, using the method in the user guide to preserve my data: I save a copy of the data first and then delete my active data, uninstall GW, reinstall GW checking the checkboxes for clean install and default settings, uninstall GW again and delete the temporarily-created data, rename my saved data copy and reinstall GW again using my original, saved data. I have been trying to understand how to use “Ask to Connect.” When I set the drop down to “Ask to Connect,” I see a GW alert that says, “Internet Connection Was Lost.” At that point, nothing on my machine will ask to connect or even actually connect to the Internet. ![]()
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