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.
[0.50a] - 2019-11-03
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
Changed
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completly reworked the backend (engine and service) code
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refactored IPC code
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dropped many unnececery dependencies
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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
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reworked firewall event monitoring to make it more robust to future changes in windows
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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
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and much more that I forgot to write down...
fixed
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program list browsing with arow keys when filter is engaged
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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.
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sorting by timestamp now works properly
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fixed issues with file and registry tweaks not being un don properly
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fixed issues with not applicable tweaks being sometimes shown where it could have been avoided
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and many more which I forgot to write down...