New Update Defender Hardening Console Executable

On the left of the processes there are infos like 0 Clear or 1 Clear (For System Idle Process) . What do those numbers mean ?

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It's a big improvement over the previous World Map GUI. If it doesn't involve too much work it would be nice to add the ability to zoom in / out the World map with the mousewheel (better) and / or with plus and minus buttons. It could be useful if the dots are concentrated in a specific area. Furthermore after removing AiDefender.exe from Microsoft Defender's exclusions, I ran the new version and it isn't flagged anymore as a malware so I'm going to update the Wilders Security Forum's thread as promised.
 
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It's a big improvement over the previous World Map UI. If it doesn't involve too much work it would be nice to add the ability to zoom in / out the World map with the mousewheel (better) and / or with plus and minus buttons. It could be useful if the dots are concentrated in a specific area. Furthermore after removing AiDefender.exe from Microsoft Defender's exclusions, I ran the new version and it isn't flagged anymore as a malware so I'm going to update the Wilders Security Forum's thread as promised.
There will be more improvements to the world map, including the ability to zoom in.
 
Compared to the previous version there are more infos about the processes connecting to Internet and with a better GUI
The GUI here is transitioning more to a UX but there will be more improvements to the UX. There are around 600 factors considered for the process score.
 
I've noticed that when I start DHC Network Monitoring, msedgewebview2.exe process starts to write on the disk at a constant rate. I don't use Microsoft Edge and it occurs only when I start DHC network monitoring. When I exit from DHC network monitoring the disk writing suddenly stops.

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Yes, the UI is based on Edge WebView.

There are several frameworks that facilitate UIs, including those for AVs. One of them is the QT WebEngine (Trend Micro previously, now pretty much phased out), the other one is Electron and the third one is Chromium Embedded Framework (Gen Digital which is now transitioning to WebView). There are now several more modern ones like Tauri/Neutralino (also WebView). There are several other UI frameworks like Sciter, WPF, Winforms and others, but they all have various downsides.

For my projects I went directly for WebView. So the disk write/read is a result of the backend passing the information to the frontend, which is then rendered.

The background service will not have this disk write as everything will happen in memory and the cache will be dumped periodically, as well as on service shutdown.
 
A new version has been released.

The network monitor module has been boosted to a higher version, and this brings over a 100 performance optimisations, several bug fixes including better process resolution, and ability to zoom in on the network map. The UX has undergone a lot of optimisations as well and is now heavily GPU-accelerated. The multi-threading for network monitor in this version has been changed.




The version has been submitted to Microsoft.
 
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@danb could we possibly check this? I understand the detection due to the name though.
There will be a rebranding when the real time firewall/network monitor is released.

The new name will be privacy + hardening and some hardening will be managed continuously, on as-needed basis.

Defender Hardening Console is starting to undersell the capabilities.
 
I'm having the worst time trying to run the latest update (first time trying to install it).

First it was blocked by CyberLock (manually allowed it).
Then it was blocked by Windows Defender. Manually added as an exclusion. Wouldnt even let me access the file through exclusions module. Had to disable real time protection and cloud protection to even whitelist it. Once whitelisted, after UAC prompt, the file doesn't run at all (no errors whatsoever).

Don't know what to do.
 
Hello,
thank you for releasing so quickly the updated version with the ability to zoom in / out the World map. I noticed a minor issue: when zooming out the map with the mousewheel, the map won't zoom out but the Defender Hardening Window scrolls down instead. I got the same message from CyberLock like the user RoboMan, I allowed AiDefender.exe but Microsoft Defender didn't flag it as malware. Microsoft Defender "Allowed threats" and "Exclusions" don't contain any item.
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ability to zoom in on the network map.
As you wrote zoom in and not zoom out too, I guess it's not possible to zoom out with the mousewheel but only with the minus button.
I also notice that "Home" is set to London so I presume that currently it's not possible to determinate the IP address location of the user.
 
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As you wrote zoom in and not zoom out too, I guess it's not possible to zoom out with the mousewheel but only with the minus button.
I also notice that "Home" is set to London so I presume that currently it's not possible to determinate the IP address location of the user.
yeah, there will be a few improvements more coming

@RoboMan, try the release.zip