Someone should write a software that just send random wierd data to those sites microsoft sends data to.

@igorthelight

5 ай бұрын

An interesting idea xD

@duncanchestnut5583

5 ай бұрын

Actually, that's a great idea The only thing worse to these malicous spyware companies than not getting your data is getting all of their data junked because they don't know what is and isn't real

@ShaferHart

5 ай бұрын

That's a very stupid way to get yourself prosecuted under the CFAA. Funny though.

@LunatiqHigh

5 ай бұрын

@@ShaferHart Fuck em, worth it. lol. Have a few billion people do it at the same time. lol

@yanniskorsavvidis7111

5 ай бұрын

There was a chrome extension which was sending random search queries to google.

Windows ignores the hosts file for certain domains related to Windows Update and Windows Defender. It's done in order to prevent malware from abusing the hosts file in order to prevent Windows from being updated.

@blikthepro972

5 ай бұрын

the malware is preventing other malware from saving you

@AriinPHD

3 ай бұрын

terrifying.

Thank you for this. I've been playing the same game for four years. My ping was always at 44ms. With Portmaster my ping dropped from 44 to 40-39ms. That is a nice improvement!

My concern is with any 3rd party apps is that they sometimes inadvertently block services that are required by your apps to work properly. And then comes time for long debug processes and it eventually turns out that the 3rd party app you installed was causing the problem all along.

@Oddbrother

5 ай бұрын

That's another thing I like about Portmaster. It's more transparent and helpful in narrowing down what causes the problem to streamline the debugging and troubleshooting process. Or at least finding out why it's blocking something an app needs on that one machine.

@PrivacyisFreedom

5 ай бұрын

I've been using portmaster for over a year now and would never use any windows computer without it ever again. It cannot be more easy to have privacy for free. If a program doesn't work you unblock it, it's that simple. The only exception here are vpn's, you have to unblock multiple exe's for them to work but that's not difficult either, it will all show up in the portmaster.

@deang5622

5 ай бұрын

Any decent software vendor should tell you in their documentation what ports are needed for their app to work.

@ami443

5 ай бұрын

it made my pc slower, so i uninstalled it...

@andrive

5 ай бұрын

True. Comdo firewall

I do most of this via my firewall but going to check this out as it's always nice to have open source apps to recommend to my less tech savvy friends.

@65matt75

5 ай бұрын

pfBlocker FTW

@SEEKR1337

3 ай бұрын

You can use SimpleWall to control the Windows Firewall better.

@sylverpepper

5 күн бұрын

How do you do it yourself via your firewall?

@nadtz

4 күн бұрын

@@sylverpepper Opnsense lets you use blocklists and they include most of these domains. I also blackhole a bunch of stuff via pi hole.

What a fantastic tool! Thanks for sharing this with us :)

@macethorns1168

5 ай бұрын

And did you independently verify that no spy traffic was leaving your network? Or...?

Holy shit this is awesome! Open source, great looking, simple with advanced settings! Great share!

I have a Synology router which has a great way to create filters to block these web sites. It would be really nice to just have a list of the spy web sites to add to these filter without having to introduce yet another app or service. Great video and very much appreciated.

@ShainAndrews

5 ай бұрын

Doesn't it have scripting capabilities? I don't play in the consumer stuff so I don't know... but it seems like you should be able to pull a black list from your source of choice.

@DavidM2002

5 ай бұрын

@@ShainAndrews Thanks Shain, I never thought or even knew about that.

@ShainAndrews

5 ай бұрын

@@DavidM2002 That's the core of the magic sauce. Manufactures curate their own "proprietary" black lists. There are quite a few robust list available... lists that assist populating the "proprietary" lists.

I love plug-ins that provide these type of services but always recommend a dedicated hardware firewall which protects the whole network. I use the Firewalla Gold which is extremely easy to set up and manage but of course there are others as well.

Hi Leo, I am a big fan of your channel. Thank you for all you do!

I use Simplewall to block everything by default and allow connections manually, is a lot of work at the start and not so friendly but still a great tool! Will def give this a try as well

@ao4514

5 ай бұрын

What is simplewall ?!

@ReheatedDonut

5 ай бұрын

@@ao4514 free, open source firewall that just blocks everything and when something needs to connect it alerts you. You can then say OK don't ask again, or OK allow for X mins, or just ignore and it will block it that one time, or select to block completely.

@CyanureNeko

5 ай бұрын

@@ao4514 Short answer: Hard firewall that allows you to block any app (or even ports/ips) on your pc, and like I said before, I have it set to block everything and it will prompt me when a program is trying to connect to the internet to ask for permission it also shows the connections just like the one on this video

@CyberPun

5 ай бұрын

NotSoSimplewall

@avinashjagdeo

5 ай бұрын

Tinywall works for me. The thing about the advanced firewalls with all the crazy features is they are resource hogs.

So far, so good. Thanks. Generally, if it's Open Source, I'm in, almost always more secure due to how it's developed.

@jamie5388

5 ай бұрын

Along with the transparency of anyone being able to review the code.

@ShainAndrews

5 ай бұрын

That's like dropping your shorts because a stranger told you they're a hooker then asking the community why it burns while you take a piss. The community will collectively agree that indeed they were a hooker... But based on your results not a clean one, nor were either party using best practices. All of this "open source contribution" occurred after the fact. Moral of the story. There is no panacea. Anything can be open source, but open source does not equate to safe, clean, or best practices. By the time enough competent eyes review the code the damage is done.

@olympiawa

5 ай бұрын

@@ShainAndrews Interesting analogy but in this case you're the doctor with the test results. You can go see for yourself and make your own judgement about the software. Open source doesn't equate to safe, clean, or best practice per se. However, with a little due diligence, you can find out with far more ease and certainty than a proprietary piece of software.

@CubensisEnjoyer

5 ай бұрын

@@ShainAndrews analogy is overkill for a pretty simple idea. open source isn't inherently secure and users shouldn't assume it is. not sure wtf you're on about

@PatsyIsDrunk

5 ай бұрын

@@CubensisEnjoyer He's insane, living in a walled off compartment in his fear addled mind. Have a good day mate.

this was posted 30 seconds ago? And i got the recommendation?

@NaldinhoGX

5 ай бұрын

Same?

@owolo

5 ай бұрын

what's the problem?

@FatBiscuitYT

5 ай бұрын

KZread have been testing recommendations by boosting people you do not necessarily watch on your home page.

@KC-nd7nt

5 ай бұрын

Ditto

I'm happy to see that a bigger channel promotes the portmaster software, it's an amazing privacy tool that's easy to use! Every windows user should have this on their PC because it's free and opensource and protects your privacy. You can block all major tech companies in the filterlists settings! Simplewall is great but this is more advanced and superior. Great video mr security!

@devalue7064

5 ай бұрын

why just windows? i use it on linux too

@BleepBlop-rh9lm

5 ай бұрын

I wish the pro version was not subscription based. It's too expensive.

@PrivacyisFreedom

5 ай бұрын

@@BleepBlop-rh9lm Yeah 10 euro a month isn't to cheap. But you have to consider you get a new IP for every program you use, it's the first program that does that (so far i know), tor does it only for the browser and vpns give you only one IP. Speaking of vpn's, mullvad is great and half the price of portmaster. I think both programs are worth paying for.

@PrivacyisFreedom

5 ай бұрын

@@devalue7064 Ofcourse portmaster is great no matter on which OS you use it, i tried it on debian and it didn't work just saying, maybe they'll fix that someday if they haven't already. After all their website advertises the portmaster for debian based system, so it was werid when it didn't work there.

@colonelfustercluck486

5 ай бұрын

yeah, not much difference in features between free and the $4/month service. To get the good version it's $9.90/month..... and that's the one you should get@@BleepBlop-rh9lm

Finally portmaster presented in tpsc 🎉🎉 Maybe the SPN next ?

You just gained A new subscriber . Btw lately i figured out i had a rat and a miner in my laptop because of security tools you mentioned in your videos After disinfection,i made sure that my pc is well secured with the tools you said in your vids❤️👍

@PrivacyisFreedom

5 ай бұрын

You made the right choice, this channel is as good as portmaster.

Will definitely add Portmaster to the list of software to investigate. Question, does this replace O&O Shutup? Also question about crowdsec, does it replace having AV software like Kaspersky or Sophos? Thanks

@lukasbruderlin2723

5 ай бұрын

@wannebedal-adx458 - still would set all privacy setting in Windows itself (and you still can use O&O Shutup for that)... because that will reduce the load and noise from Windows even trying to collect and send! Also in case Portmaster might theoretically fail... so you still have the first line of preventing the worst! Short answer: Yes, still use it ;)

I simply use malwarebytes firewall control. It is free and can be set to block everything by default and ask about unlocking. It is hard to tell what you can block (for example gaming services might be necessary for gamepass games) so you need some epxerimentation.

Hi, thank you for the information. Can you also please do third party software firewall testings/review as well. 😂

Thank you for what you do. Keep up the good work

I used simplewall for a while, this might be a nice one to try

Been using this since it was in beta, it’s pretty good!!

Hi there, it was a very useful and informative tutorial video, please upload more about free and open-source Firewall , This topic is very interesting. thnx

I really like Portmaster too I just wish it was more compatible with DNSCrypt and other VPNs without needing to do any config changes

I’m using comodo firewall, do you recommend swapping to this one? Because I like the control of the processes that comodo gives me and port master doesn’t have (or at least you didn’t show us)

Thank you very much. I am looking at the options, specifically the Plus, I can cover the lack of SPN with a DPN.

While it is useful, you can't leave it and forget since it'll most possibly be a source of "why is x application not working" a lot of times because of its global "Force block incoming connections" rule and it wanting you to use a DNS server and nagging you about it (Had cloudflare and was wondering why almost all sites weren't working, turned out cloudflare was down back then and portmaster was routing my DNS to it, so when things are malfunctioning this the first thing i look at now aside from incoming connections) Also sometimes it classifies things it cannot properly identify as "Network noise", ran into issues with streaming software like Sunshine and had to disable incoming connections ruling for all the "noise connections" to save myself hours of more guesswork Just something to be aware of that's going to make your like much easier when using this

@videodude8137

5 ай бұрын

Yes, I had had that issue with O&O Shutup.

Your channel is great bro. As a former sysadmin, I get so frustrated with people promoting AV crap just for $$$. You are honest, to the point, and give real world quantifiable data. On a side note, you sound a bit like Buildzoid (a guy with a name in the motherboard and gpu hobbyist arena for analyzing board layouts).

Sorry but I would expect you to show what this portmaster is also sending away to their servers while recommending it. I'm guessing you did your due diligence but it's better to show that to users too, because now I feel like I'm just swapping whos spying me rather than stopping it

@pcsecuritychannel

5 ай бұрын

Portmaster is open source and anyone can inspect the source code here: github.com/safing/portmaster. Due to the nature of how such firewalls work and cause the DNS is encrypted, it isn't easy to "show" what is happening in Wireshark, as it will look like gibberish to the viewer and doing an in-depth investigation of code is not going to be the kind of content that the same viewer complaining about the lack of investigation in this video is going to watch.

@gxplay9404

5 ай бұрын

@@pcsecuritychannel You could make it at the end of the Video, or a quick overview but its not all about what the average viewer would watch rather than quality of the content for many peoplel, really knowing if the application is secure, and not evolving to another channel just ignoring the probaple downsides (no front here, just many channels are like this already) just objectively reviewing all of it.

@jackjack3358

5 ай бұрын

@@pcsecuritychannel Fair point on code analysis, I wouldn't expect that anyway. But a short part where you could analyze if portmaster is calling any random URLs or not would be nice, and would certainly show up in wireshark as you know. As you know, just because something is open source doesn't mean that it can be clean or compiled distributed binary is 1-1 identical with what's on github. I'm not saying portmaster is shady, but you know, they can easily add something to github and distribute a different binary that does more or less same with telemetry in it.

@monkeydluffy2063

5 ай бұрын

@@pcsecuritychannel you don't have to do the in-depth analysis in a video, like you said it will be gibberish for most people - but you could tell us that "I checked and this is not sending a homing signal to its own servers with all this info" etc, OR show a 1 minute highlight of what you found, else why even recommend a tool I agree with @jackjack3358, why should I bother with another tool that might be doing the same thing as microsoft

@pcsecuritychannel

5 ай бұрын

@@jackjack3358 The whole idea of an encrypted DNS is you can't see the URLs being visited in Wireshark or a network monitoring tool, that's part of the point of a privacy tool, so there is no way to visually "showcase" what URLs you are visiting once you install the application (unlike the Wireshark logs I showed before).

You've sparked my interest!!!

This should complement Simplewall so well

@ReheatedDonut

5 ай бұрын

Not use if it's worth using both? I have simplewall and looked at portmaster about a year ago and ended up just using simplewall

thanks for covering this Application

Thanks for the video!

You can just use Control-D at Router or device level to do the same thing. and it has similar features + added Proxy for bypassing specific app based IP or the whole device.

@benwhitehouse4467

5 ай бұрын

ControlD is the best purchase I've made in a while. The ability to use community filters and it being compatible with almost every device is great.

@revplays6471

5 ай бұрын

@@benwhitehouse4467 true that haha

what a nice information will be, is to know how much CPU usage those apps have? i had Comodo Internet Security for couple months and makes my system feeld a little bit slower after a fresh install, and i looked in the task manager and saw, that comodo uses 10-15% from my CPU (5800 x3d).

Hey TPSC, I was wondering is it possible to disable Windows Defender so that we can use PortMaster? If so, can you make a video on how we would do that properly, please? Thanks for everything you upload.

@morsermons9610

5 ай бұрын

I've disabled it completely on W11 but it's a real trial. On W10 you could use regedit to get rid of it but Microsoft have made it much more difficult in W11, you need to find a good tutorial to follow!! I've also removed Edge and One Drive the same way but m/soft do not make it easy... You also have to watch updates as they tend to try and put everything back.

Hi, when can we get another free av test-comparison? Love your channel

Portmaster has been a favorite of mine for a while. The SPN feature (replacing VPNs) is a bit jank and needs work but overall it's a must have. The only complaint i have is the price because it costs way to much to justify for the general public.

@CyberPun

5 ай бұрын

Yeah right. It is an open source software. You have been cheated if you paid for that.

@Blox117

5 ай бұрын

@@CyberPun the price is for the vpn, sherlock

@CyberPun

5 ай бұрын

@@Blox117 NordVPN is better. Try that.

@ami443

5 ай бұрын

I just tried it for one hour, and it made my pc slower, so i uninstalled it !! never more !!

@bbbl67

5 ай бұрын

What does SPN stand for?

You always post most useful advice and recommendations here. Thank you!

Been using Port master with Linux and even it doesnt help as much as it would on Windows, it still helps blocking some ads in my games and complements ublock

You also recommended Comodo Firewall before. How would you compare these two?

I have a question : i have Kaspersky Total Security installed, is this kind of Firewall is compatible with ? ( Because Kaspersky T.S include is own Firewall and maybe it can create conflicts, slow-down or instability ? )

Simple wall is the best!!! Tricky to set up but thannit works!

I'll have to check it out and thanks for the FYI.

Very informative, thank you

This software is well known by linux users. It is also very handy software.

Thanks a lot leo 💕

It causes "youtube's 5 second adblock defence" to kick in , slows everything down

Portmaster sounded like a great idea, so I did try it. I found it made my system run a lot slower, and it totally blocked KZread, so I couldn't watch this video again. Therefore, I did uninstall it and wondered why you would endorse it.

I like it. I would like it even more if this were running in layer 3.

@generic6099

4 ай бұрын

they use a kernel driver on windows

Portmaster indeed is awesome

Thanks, Leo!

I use Simplewall (with Windows 10)- and use it the same way- and portmaster is often compared to it- Wondering if PC security channel could also check out Portmaster 's competitors (simplewall, and i THINK Glasswire?) [And yes, it's possible to also run BOTH Portmaster and Simplewall on Windows, to my knowledge- so there's a third option, BOTH] I use Portmaster on a Debian PC though, and it's pretty cool!

@ReheatedDonut

5 ай бұрын

yes I would love a comparison as I use simplewall, and tried portmaster a year or so ago and uninstalled it.

Hey, can you please make a video on how to use snort or Wireshark and explain how to identify threats, etc??? Thank you for your work, I really appreciate it ❤❤❤.

That was a lot more than just one click

does this by any chance introduce any latency when playing games? does it reduce internet speeds?

@igorthelight

5 ай бұрын

It is not reducing internet speed and "most likely" not add any latency.

i was totally expecting a closed source proprietary paid software seeing the quality of the UI Pleasant surprise when i saw that it's open source freeminum!

Does this work together with another firewall? Meaning having 2 firewalls, this one and the one from my AV. So having this one for blocking things from MS while my main firewall from my AV deals with everything else. Thanks.

I m using kasperksy plus, would it be suggested using this alongside or is it still better to use kaspersky firewall?

@igorthelight

5 ай бұрын

Kaspersky doesn't block Windows services that are spying on you - not his goal ;-)

i like free stuff. i dont like microsoft taking my stuff for free

Awesome. Thank you.

out of curiosity how would portmaster interact with an AV if it has a built-in firewall for example Kaspersky Internet Security and so on? I assume it is best coupled with an AV that doesn't include a Firewall?

Thanks!

i forgot how good portmaster is, thanks for reminding me!

thanks for the great suggestions. If I use this software, can I turn off the ad blockers in my browser?

@igorthelight

5 ай бұрын

Try to disable it and look what will happen ;-)

I had windows defender emptying out the hosts file randomly in the past because it detected critical system files being changed. Its more of a temporary solution. Right now i just use the child safety filter in the router to block a long list of trackers, microsoft and bing. If the clock stops synchronizing, it works. Its network level and not on each machine but does the job.

A Video Idea: how safe is a Sandbox really. testing multiple sandboxes like Virtualbox VM, Windows Sandbox.. e.t.c and showing the worst case scenario if flaws are being used.

Not installing anything, unless it's free and open-source.

14 minutes with 800 visualisations is insane!

Any chance you've been able to place wireshark on your network -- or is it check hardware firewall logs -- to see if traffic to these nefarious IP truly stops once that application is used? Nice to "trust but verify".

@f3rny_66

5 ай бұрын

there is no "trust but verify" in sponsored content ;) I tried portmaster and it uses more resourses than chrome, too much for a personal firewall

@CarbineKiller

5 ай бұрын

FWs only block the traffic in question, not the process. i assume MS will try to cause such traffic to originate from legitimate processes/executables, so blocking at last-mile-to-ISP (perimeter) would be beneficial for your entire network.

@macethorns1168

5 ай бұрын

Of course he didn't, otherwise he wouldn't be posting this video making those outlandish claims.

Seems like a great tool. Thank you for the video. Comodo free firewall has been suggested to be adequate, but can Portmaster compare to it and other known paid products - it would be good with your expertise if possible if you could test this? Thanks again.

Thank you Sir!!!!!

I understand that MS are going to be releasing a "lite" version of Windows11 later in 2024 which by default does not include the MS store, or co-pilot any many other bits n pieces. I am looking forward to this as it seems to me the less MS the lower overall vectors for intrusive snooping. In the meantime I will give this project a try. TY for the vid.

How it compares with a DNS solution (nextdns/controld)? Or it more like adguard program?

@NathOnGames

5 ай бұрын

DNS solutions like Pi Hole are far better.

@Blox117

5 ай бұрын

@@NathOnGames pi hole is terrible when dealing with anti ad blockers

@NathOnGames

5 ай бұрын

@@Blox117 That's simply not true at all. Ublock get's the anti adblock popups but pi hole doesn't.

I'm going to try this.

Outstanding video and very helpful. I will definitely install and test this. I have one question or advice and you might have covered this ? I bought a replacement laptop off eBay ??? yes I know are you mad ? it comes with Windows 11 Pro preinstalled. This laptop has a 1tb drive and was bought because my same model motherboard died and the cost to replace the motherboard or buy this laptop was the same cost. So Ive tested the new laptop but not logged into any account. Using my previous M2 drive with windows 11 to boot up and the 1TB as a spare drive. How can I test the 1Tb M2 drive to confirm there is no key logger / Malware / Virus or other nasties ? Thanks in advance

@Loader7272

5 ай бұрын

fresh install or copy your backup image to the next drive.

@aaronag7876

5 ай бұрын

@@Loader7272 Thanks, I had thought it better to wipe out the 1TB drive or image it for backup purposes and then reinstall it fresh using the Win11 Key from the 1TB Win11 set up. Currently the laptop is on a 512gb m2 Drive dual booted with Win11 and Ubuntu. It just the hassle of doing all that lol. Oh well no choice and thanks for confirming my thought process,

@RidgecrestKillaz187

5 ай бұрын

​@@aaronag7876 "I had thought it better to wipe" You're right, the other guy is wrong - don't listen to bad advice. Any sophisticated malware will survive a simple format or reinstall. You need to completely clean and wipe the partition tables and headers. It's the only way you can be sure.

Interesting how you didn't block NSFW :P . I use Pi-hole but i'll take a look into this one aswell.

@igorthelight

5 ай бұрын

Why should you? ;-)

I'm wondering if there will be any video about recent malware called Pikabot, I'm curious about how it hides and spreads.

@pcsecuritychannel The moment I installed this program, Windows 11 Pro "Smart App Control" allowed the install. Every connection on my computer was blocked including any and all internet communications. "Smart App Control" will not let me use the uninstaller and I had to install a premium version of an antivirus and quarantine the app, but technically it is still installed since "Smart App Control" from Windows 11 will not allow the uninstall. Do you have any tips?

@DigitalCaveDweller

5 ай бұрын

Portmaster is the program upon which I commented

How does this compare to something like adguard? I think the desktop version of adguard does something similar.

Portmaster does not sit well with VPNs or similar virtual network devices, however

I had tried this or similar one few months ago, had issue with it eating ram and endings up restarting the app every few hours to avoid that, cause system slowdown and ended up just adding blocklist in host and using other ways in system filters

I assume you do not have to disable the Windows firewall? The two firewalls are running side by side?

What do you think about portmaster vs glasswire?

does it run nice along with an AV? this does seem like something I want to test out see what apps I have doing things. I guess I could just it and see what my AV does.

Port Master is extremely powerful. It will literally stop apps and services from accessing internet . It was also annoying at first when I couldnt use some application 💀. So you have to make sure you enable or disable blocking on certain apps

WIll portmaster do much the same as the adguard app (not extension, but app)?

This might be cool but if I were you I would get a port monitor and you will find Microsoft is still communicating . I know quite abit about Windows firewall Gpedit and the registry and after blocking and removing everything that I felt they were using , it was many many things , I did a port monitor and found it did not work . The communication channels , from my experience , cannot be shut down all the way. Thanks for the share. :O)

@macethorns1168

5 ай бұрын

So you're acknowledging that he's wrong but still giving him daps?

@SumNumber

5 ай бұрын

@@macethorns1168 LOL Sorta ... :O)

Somewhat related subject. Setting up Quad 9 DNS. I spent three days trying to get it working on my home network. When I went to verify, Cloudflare was the only result I got. Which is fine... but I set my router for quad 9... then google, then my ISP. Why TF is my router stuck on Cloudflare? Must be a bug. Three routers later same results. Tried three different client machines with different OS's. Same results. Didn't matter what configuration changes I made on the router, or the client interfaces. Fine I'll direct connect the client machines to the ISP. SAME fing' results. Then it dawned on me... Firefox was the common denominator. That little shit sets all DNS to Cloudflare. I'm sure it told me this at some point in my life... Might be a good piece for you to cover. Especially showing your audience how to verify what you set is indeed how it is operating. I deal with route leaks all the time... just didn't expect it at the application layer.

I block those on my router firewall together with country block, but list of all those trackers and what are the use of it (like for instance not to block "tracking" service that just checks that you have internet connection) would be nice

Nice job on helping us

Free?, remember that when the product is free then YOU are the product!

@igorthelight

5 ай бұрын

Ever heard of Open Source? ;-)

@Alex_Martz

5 ай бұрын

@@igorthelight never in my life, do tell me more 😂😂😂

@igorthelight

5 ай бұрын

@@Alex_Martz xD

@abhishankpaul

2 ай бұрын

Meanwhile emmess who wants you to pay a hefty amount for their products and then harvest your browsing and usage data to earn more from you. Better to become commodity for free than to be one after paying

@abhishankpaul

2 ай бұрын

Meanwhile emmess who wants you to pay a hefty amount for their products and then harvest your browsing and usage data to earn more from you. Better to become commodity for free than to be one after paying

Thanks btw, awesome.

Would love to see a comparison between Portmaster and Glasswire, both Free and Paid options.

@rooboy69

5 ай бұрын

or comodo Firewall

@ConstitutionalRepublicStands

5 ай бұрын

I've had glasswire for a couple years, both free and paid versions, and im here looking for something better if that tells you anything

Hi, please make a tutorial video about Sophos Firewall for Homes and small offices. thnx

I installed this but my web browsing has become unpredictable with some sites not coming up while others are fine. I've had to reboot my system one time because this was clogging something in the OS. Finding fixes is difficult. This app needs a very good in depth tutorial. When I shut it down, everything goes back to normal.

All it takes is a few lines in the Hosts file to route any reporting to MS to your own computer, that is 127 0 0 1 local host. Replace the space with a period. I had to do this to avoid KZread deleting the comment.

Is this necessary after setting up the hostfile like in the other video you made?

@igorthelight

5 ай бұрын

That was explained in the video ;-)

Portmaster sounds great - but how is it funded? I don't believe in the so-called "free lunch." The programmer(s) need to be paid, the website needs to be hosted, the Domain name needs to be bought/rented. If a deal sounds too good to be true, then...

Funny, first time a vid features something I've known about for a "long" time. I really don't know if its' portmaster itself, but I noticed remarkable slowdown in the GUI of qbittorrent when it's running, so I always just shut it off and forget to re-open it (on every startup). (my logic is - if something causes slowdown on X, it might cause future slowdowns on Y, and by then [by the time these manifest] I'd have forgotten about it and waste time on reinvestigating - so I shut it down fast)

@SilentPlain

5 ай бұрын

I had issues with it too using qBittorrent, as commented recently in this video. I switched back to Tinywall and never looked back.

@Blox117

5 ай бұрын

no i think its just blocking a lot of traffic from torrent and the client keeps attempting anyways