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WinSight
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Free
Free
No account · no paywall · no premium tier · GPL-3.0-or-later
Read 8 Oct 2026 · winsight.edeveloppe.com
On the record
- Application rules
- Yeswinsight.edeveloppe.com · read 22 Sep 2026
- Connection alerts
- Nowinsight.edeveloppe.com · read 22 Sep 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 · read 8 Oct 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 · read 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 · read 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 · read 8 Oct 2026
- Languages
- The dashboard is available in English, French, and Spanish.winsight.edeveloppe.com · read 8 Oct 2026
- Outbound control
- advancedwinsight.edeveloppe.com · read 22 Sep 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 · read 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 · read 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 · read 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 · read 8 Oct 2026
- Rule direction
- outboundwinsight.edeveloppe.com · read 22 Sep 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 · read 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 · read 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 · read 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 · read 8 Oct 2026
