Connection Explorer

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About Connection Explorer

With powerful tools to create intelligent activity alerts, block unwanted connections, review historical data, and add notes to DNS entries, Connection Explorer keeps you fully informed about how and when your device is communicating with the world.

Key Features

  • Map - Connections are plotted on a map with activity data for easy identification
  • Alerts - Easily create intelligent alerts to identify unwanted activity
  • Connections - See all of your device's active connection
  • DNS - Explore the DNS connections and create notes for the activity
  • Ping - A simple and easy to use tool to test external connectivity
  • History - All of your connection data in one searchable place

See Every Connection

Your apps are talking, see who's listening.

Get a clear view of every connection your PC makes and where your apps send your data.

  • Easy to see and understand

Complex data is made easy to understand with home and timeline views that make looking at current and historical connections a single click.

  • Interactive data to explore your connections

Every map dot is a live connection that you can explore to understand where your apps are sending or receiving information.


Create smart alerts, intelligence defined by you.

Create smart rules to identify and alert you to suspicious network activity.

  • Find connections based on their geography

Easy to build rules allow you to create alerts when a connection to a country is discovered or set the parameter to alert you every time a connection occurs outside your home country.

  • Monitor port activity

Want to see if someone is targeting your remote desktop connections? Easy to configure port monitoring logic makes the process simple.


Full connection history, ready to be explored.

Your PC connects to endpoints across the globe, visualize every interaction in an interface designed for exploration.

  • See all of the data behind a connection

Applications, processes, DNS and more, see all of the connections your device is making and where the data is being sent.

  • Easily block problematic processes

Blocking applications from connecting to the Internet with a single click.