Private Winten - Open Source Windows 10 privacy tool with built in Firewall

Since you have not answered my question even though you have been on this site several times since i posted it i consider my question answered with a yes.

It is abandoned!
Pity.

 

No its not, i get so many questions i not always have time to answer to all. Custom Config allows you to group firewall and tweak settings togather under one switch such that you can for example unblock the stores access to the internet, enable msft accoutn service and otehr stuff with one click, install soemthing from the store and then lock down the system again.

 

You need to enable dns stuff in the settings first than the button gets enabled

 

Some minor updates: https://github.com/DavidXanatos/priv10/releases/tag/v0.85

 

My question about PW10 was in June, it is a pity that it had to take this long since it only would have taken up, maybe, a minute of your time. If you are slow, 2. If you do not even take 1 minute to answer a question about a program maybe you should reconsider how you are managing your life.


But good to here, and getting a respons, at last, that it is not abandoned, but this update should have come out way earlier, and you know it.



I use M.Defender, only, and M.D stops this program even from downloading because of virus content according to M.D.

 

Well stupid MD considers almost everything a virus that does nto have a valid digital signature, just look at virus total.
Also it does nto complain about the earlier build, as it saw many users use it.
It will shut up after a while once enough users downloaded the new build.

 

As you may have noticed, my windows 10 privacy tool PrivateWin10 has not seen much development in the past 2 years. The reasons were many, not only lack of time due to Sandboxie-Plus, but also a couple conceptual issues with the design which can not be fixed without using a driver, as well as the substantially higher amount of fiddling around required to create a advanced UI using XAML in comparison with just Qt widgets.

So, moving forward I’m implementing a successor which will be called MajorPrivacy, a much-needed rebranding given that a private Windows 10 is not enough now we also need a private Windows 11 and soon 12 and so on and so forth…

MajorPrivacy will be like most of my other projects written in C++ and be using Qt Widgets for the user interface, and bring a new driver to add the much-needed kernel features to properly enforce advanced privacy presets.

In addition to the functionality PrivateWin10 offered, the Major will implement own rule-based software restrictions, i.e. the ability to prevent unauthorized or undesired applications from running. It will also bring a folder protection feature allowing to restrict access to confidential data to authorized processes. Its kernel-based process isolation abilities will ensure that the authorized processes cannot be tempered with providing the highest level of protection from other processes, and even a high level of protection from adversarial processes running with administrative or system privileges.

In the initial release a couple minor Priv10 features will not be included, like the filtering DNS proxy, these will be added later. Furthermore, additional new features will be added, a per process DNS filter using a hook dll, proxy injection also the driver will later implement an own firewall engine allowing for more control then is possible by only leveraging the windows firewall rules. The driver’s ability to control and block register accesses will allow to prevent unauthorized alteration of firewall rules and other guarded registry presets.

The UI concept for the Folder Control and Execution Restriction tabs will be analogues to Network Firewall tab in Priv10, a list on the left containing Program Items which can be a single program, service or a group of those, a rule list on the top right and status/logs on the bottom right. The UI will look not as modern as priv10 but will resemble SandMan.exe style wise.

Let me know what other features you would want to see or which priv10 aspects you would like to have changed.

The plan is to have a first release sometime end of this year.

 

I want it modular so I can turn off completely features I don't want or need. For example, I'd like use the folder/drive/file protector only.

 

As promised this year you get the successor to the dated PrivateWin10, with build v0.90.0 https://github.com/xanasoft/MajorPrivacy/releases/tag/v0.90.0 the first public build of Major Privacy gets online. There were a few things delaying the progress this year, so the build did not advance as far as I would have hoped, especially the UI is in a very early state, however most core features of private win 10 have been successfully ported to the new project.

Currently it includes full windows firewall support, DNS Inspector and the Tweak engine, DNS filtering is missing.

The next features to be added in the the upcoming builds (already mostly completed in the driver, missing only some glue logic UI) will be the Process Protection and Restriction rules. After that I will focus on the File System and Registry Protection as well as on the less important features.

One new feature found its way in the planning, since the public announcement, Secure Drives. These are basically encrypted file hosted volumes, like offered by VeraCrypt and others, but safe guarded against unauthorized access using the File System Isolation and allowing only access to selected Protected Processes.

 

Hi
will you release a full 100% portable version ?
happy new year David

 

Well portable is not really realistic with somethign that relays on a driver to provide security, some functionality can be used portable, setting tweaks and configuring windows firewall but the entire awesome rest needs the driver.

Why would you want it portable?

 

If I'm correct, this tool is similar to O&O ShutUp10, correct? And would you willing to develop a new TinyWall? I mean Sandboxie Plus is pretty much finished for the most part, not?

 

Well that like saying "open office is kind of a notepad right?"
O&O ShutUp10 sets a few GPO's and registry values that's all, IIRC.
Major Privacy (and already private win10) does much more, it has a tweak page to set all these nice tweaks,
but priv10 also leverages the windows firewall to limit outbound connections. In essence already the old priv10 is like O&O ShutUp10 + TinyWall + a PiHole (in software).
Major Privacy will in addition to this also allow you to configure protected folders which can only be accessed by applications you define as trustworthy,
use its driver to implement custom software restriction rules, that is define which programs can and can not not run on the system, and much more.

Unlike TinyWall the default Config shows connection notification pop ups but you can disable it and create rules from the main UI instead.

 

please add option to view registry tree+value. even i am able to use a tracer this would raise trust. nice, it recognises already set options.

 

OK thanks for the info, so Major Privacy will become a bit more advanced than I thought. And you have no interest in developing TinyWall further, got it.

 

I wasn't aware TinyWall went open source but as its written in C# and is using the same mechanisms as simplewall imho there is no point in maintaining it when we have the option to use an own driver based approche.

 

Yes, TinyWall is open source since a couple of months. I think it's still the most simple to use firewall but could use improvements here and there. And I have seen what you have done with Sandboxie Plus, very impressive, so that's why I thought you would be right person. And you could of course also make a paid version.

 

I will definitely take a look for some inspiration into the code,
but I think its not efficient to maintain 2 tools which implement firewall functionality.
Major Privacy should do all that TinyWall can and much more, hence it should be sufficient.

 

OK cool, perhaps you will see potential in it, who knows. And yes, I can understand that you're quite busy with Major Privacy.