Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled

Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by Gracana on Monday August 10, 2015 @09:09PM (#10038539)

Oh man, I am racking my brain trying to think of the tool I used to have installed on my PC at my last job. It was built by somebody who posted on HN, lightsomething or something? It would warn you about new programs connecting to the network and do other neat stuff. Not quite the same as little snitch, but similar and very pleasant to use. I'll update if I think of it (or maybe somebody else can name it.)

[edit] Glasswire! https://www.glasswire.com/ It's super slick. Apparently the paid version has an "ask to connect" feature.

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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by mrschwabe on Monday August 10, 2015 @11:50PM (#10038993)

Is there an open source alternative/equivalent, preferably runs on Linux?

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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by Yuioup on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @06:07AM (#10039986)

Pretty much every distro on earth comes with a firewall package which you can install and configure.

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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by SSLy on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @07:31AM (#10040249)

Just iptables.

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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by gnufrra on Monday August 17, 2015 @02:45PM (#10075210)

Thanks, This looks interesting I will definitely give this a try.

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Re:Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, e... by dhimes on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @08:10AM (#10040374)

eghad recommended glasswire to me yesterday as a "solid" alternative.

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