When your Mac computer is connected to the Internet, countless connections will be quietly built in the background. Once some application connects to the Internet, it can send any information that it wants to send to any place in the world. In order to monitor these connections, better maintain our privacy security, and especially withstand the tracking software, Trojans, or other types of malware, we usually have to use the boring and difficult to use firewall software. Even worse, the inbuilt firewall program of Mac OS is only able to control incoming connections, has no monitoring and controlling capabilities for outgoing connections.

Friendly Net Viewer (FViewer for short) is a very friendly network administration, (network status) visualization and monitoring freeware with a wide range of advanced features. It is originally a part of Friendly Pinger.

To efficiently manage company/enterprise's internal LAN network with numerous nodes, complex structure and frequent failures, we often need to turn to the convenient and intuitive network topology for help. This way, when some device in a LAN breaks down, we will be able to skillfully use it to quickly locate the machine/source out of order.

AppNee figured out that only very few people like or are used to use firewall, whether it's the one Windows built-in or from a variety of antivirus software. As a security software, GlassWire abandoned the tedious UI and operation in traditional security, monitoring software, instead, it visualized all the normal and useful operation - which is just the easiest to be accepted by non advanced users.