Freedom251 › Firewall Software
WinSight
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Free | No account · no paywall · no premium tier · GPL-3.0-or-later | Free |
As winsight.edeveloppe.com lists them, read 8 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Facts from WinSight's own pages
- Application rules
- Yes · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 22 Sept 2026
- Connection alerts
- No · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 22 Sept 2026
- Firewall
- The per-application firewall uses Windows Filtering Platform and stays in audit-only mode until an elevated operator arms enforcement. · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Yes · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 22 Sept 2026
- Install requirements
- The default install is per-user, requires no administrator rights, and needs no .NET runtime; the optional firewall service is installed separately. · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker describes WinSight as Windows counterparts to Objective-See's small, single-purpose, open-source security tools for macOS. · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Interfaces
- WinSight offers a desktop and tray dashboard, a command-line interface with 28 verbs, and a local read-only MCP server for compatible AI clients. · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The dashboard is available in English, French, and Spanish. · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Outbound control
- advanced · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 22 Sept 2026
- Supported platforms
- Windows 10/11 · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 22 Sept 2026
- Privacy
- The application has no telemetry, analytics, or account; its only outbound connection is an optional, user-initiated VirusTotal hash lookup, disabled by default and requiring the user's API key. · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- WinSight is a free, open-source suite of Windows security tools for visibility and control over system activity. · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Ransomware detection
- The opt-in ransomware feature uses decoy files and rename, delete-burst, and entropy-on-write heuristics to alert; it does not block ransomware. · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Release verification
- Each release provides SHA-256 checksums, an SBOM, and GitHub build provenance, while released binaries are not yet Authenticode-signed. · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Rule direction
- outbound · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 22 Sept 2026
- Security limits
- WinSight is not antivirus or EDR and does not guarantee detection of kernel rootkits, memory-only implants, or every persistence technique. · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- The FAQ directs users with other questions to open an issue on GitHub and security issues to private GitHub vulnerability reporting. · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Supported systems
- WinSight supports Windows 11 and Windows 10 22H2 (build 19045 or later) on x64 and Arm64; 32-bit Windows is unsupported. · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 8 Oct 2026
- Tools
- Its eight tools cover persistence scanning, outbound firewall, startup alerts, ransomware detection, camera and microphone monitoring, connections and DNS, signature verification, and hijack scanning. · winsight.edeveloppe.com, 8 Oct 2026
Where WinSight stands on Freedom251
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