ARK is a lightweight security monitor that wraps Windows' own tools and serves a single-page dashboard in your browser. Live connections, open ports, firewall rules, and registry changes — watched continuously, quarantined when needed. No Electron, no npm install, no cloud.
Six live panels, each backed by the OS's own data — with an error and a retry button instead of a blank screen when a query fails.
Every active connection with remote address, owning process, and reverse-DNS — flagged when a process talks to somewhere it shouldn't.
What's listening, on which port, bound by which process. Catch the service you didn't know was exposed.
Read the active Windows Firewall posture at a glance — inbound and outbound rules, enabled and blocked.
Watches the autorun and persistence keys attackers love, and surfaces changes to them.
Isolate a suspicious item with a backup kept on disk — reversible, logged, and out of the way.
Port fallback, a supervisor that restarts a crashed worker, per-query timeouts, and a health endpoint. It reports failures instead of vanishing.
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Grab ARK.exe above. Windows may warn on a new publisher — choose More info → Run anyway.
Run INSTALL.bat. ARK installs to your user profile and adds Start Menu + Desktop shortcuts flagged run as Administrator.
Launch ARK — it starts a local server and opens http://localhost:8088 in your browser. That's it.
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