Get Defendingo
Download, unzip, open. Windows asks for permission once, and from then on Defendingo starts with your computer and keeps itself up to date.
Defendingo for Windows
No account needed. Your history stays on your computer.
Setting it up
- Extract the zip. Right-click it and choose "Extract all". Don't run it from inside the zip.
- Open defendingo-app. Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" because Defendingo is new and not code-signed yet. Click More info, then Run anyway. Why?
- Say Yes once. Windows asks whether Defendingo may make changes (it may say "Unknown publisher"). Yes installs it in Program Files, adds it to the Start menu, and lets it start with your computer and record every connection.
- Done. Open Defendingo from the Start menu any time. You can delete the extracted folder now. (If you said No, keep that folder: Defendingo runs from there.)
What's new
- Safer setup: installs to Program Files with a Start menu entry. Remove and automatic-update switches in the app, more accurate Watch live, clearer wording everywhere.
System requirements
- Windows 11 or Windows 10 on a 64-bit PC. ARM PCs also work, through Windows' built-in emulation.
- Microsoft Edge WebView2 for the app window. It comes with Windows 11 and up-to-date Windows 10.
- An account that can answer the administrator question once. On a child's or work account, someone with an admin password has to click Yes.
- About 20 MB of disk for the program, plus its history (usually tens of MB) in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Defendingo.
How to uninstall
- Open Defendingo, click the status card at the bottom left, and choose Remove Defendingo. Windows asks once for permission. This removes the installed copy, the Start menu entry and the right-click entry.
- If you still have the folder you extracted the download into, delete it too.
- To also delete your history, delete the folder
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Defendingo(paste that into the File Explorer address bar).
Mac and Linux are planned
macOS
Same guard dog, same history, same plain-language warnings.
Linux
For popular desktop distributions, with the same app and dashboard.
Make sure it's the real thing
Every download has a unique fingerprint (called SHA-256). If your file's fingerprint matches the one below, the file is exactly what we published. Optional, but it's the surest way to know.
0fb92c5afc8b152d9ad310f0e85e0a23c31435619ba67c625b90e5f76d13bdb8
To check: open your Downloads folder, right-click an empty spot, choose "Open in Terminal", and type this (change the name if your browser added something like "(1)"):
Get-FileHash Defendingo-latest.zip
Windows shows the letters in capitals. That's fine: only the letters and numbers have to match.
Signed, every time
Defendingo checks for new versions by itself. Each update is signed with a key that never leaves our own computer, and the app refuses anything whose signature doesn't match. Even if someone broke into this website, they couldn't push a fake update to you.