Private Winten (PrivateWin10): new Windows 10 privacy tweaker with firewall

[harlan4096]

Private Winten is a new open source software program to adjust privacy and other settings on devices running Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system.

The program is available as a beta version at the time of writing: make sure you create backups before you run it or run it only on non-production machines.

Users who run it need to run it with elevated privileges. Please note that Windows Smartscreen may block the execution or download, likely because it is new. A check on Virustotal returned a clean sheet.

Full reading: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/12/26/privat...-firewall/

[wwd]

Releases and download: https://github.com/DavidXanatos/priv10/releases

[wwd]

0.1d Release (Beta):
https://github.com/DavidXanatos/priv10/r...s/tag/0.1d

[wwd]

0.1e Release (beta, hotfix):
https://github.com/DavidXanatos/priv10/r...s/tag/0.1e

[Deep900]

Interesting tool guys! Thanks for sharing it

[harlan4096]

0.1g Release: https://github.com/DavidXanatos/priv10/releases

[harlan4096]

[0.1h] - 2019-05-01

Added

• Compatybility with windows 8.1 and server 2012
  
• first seen date for programs
  

Fixed

• diagtrackrunner.exe and AeLookupSvc tweak are not longer offered to win10 users as on win 10 thay are not present
  
• crash when adding new category
  

 

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[harlan4096]

[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

• 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...
  

Fixed

• 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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[harlan4096]

[0.50b] - 2019-11-05:

Added

• Compatibility with old 32 bit platforms
  

Fixed

• When rule guard is not enabled all rules were marked as changed
  

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[harlan4096]

[0.55] - 2019-11-15

Added

• added tweaks to disable visual studio tlemetry
  
• when closing priv10 from tray now it prompts if the user wants to stop the priv10 service
  
• programs.xml and tweaks.xml is now auto saved every 15 minutes
  
• added rule context menu
  
• added command to restore rules detected as changed
  
• added command to approve rules detected as changed
  
• program list cleanup not removed not longer existing programs
  
• added access filter to view options
  
• added socket type filter to socket list
  
• added access column to socket list
  
• apps/services/groupes in dropdown are now sorted alphabetically
  

Changed

• moved rule quick actions to ribbon (commands are also avialavle form context menu)
  
• moved panel filter options to toolbar form sidebar
  
• reworked change notifications
  
• rule change notifications now display the resolved name when possible
  

Fixed

• issues with some tweak definitions
  
• blocked/allowed connetion display was mixed up
  
• fixed minor issue with event log notificaiton
  
• fixed issue when changing rule guard mode
  
• fixed crash bug in notifications
  
• fixed issue adding apps
  

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