Blanktick
Offline Windows security check-up, built for AI-era threats
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Blanktick. Your antivirus, built for AI. It finds where bad AI can get into your Windows PC: exposed local AI models, AI keys in plain text, agents that outside content can steer. It also scans every file on every drive with the Defender engine already on Windows (report-only), checks 75 settings attackers change, and (new in 0.1.3) spots network tricks offline: fake routers, hosts-file redirects, evil-twin Wi-Fi. Anything it couldn't check is shown with a reason. Free, open source.
PH · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: application and system security scanners · 260 launches, 37 in the last 7 days ▲ +6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Compliance & governance
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- GitHub
- Security
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Could you build this?
Partial The UI and the settings checks are buildable, and it can call the Windows Defender engine, but credible detection of exposed AI models, leaked keys, and prompt-injection-steerable agents needs security research.
What it would actually take: The stack would be a native Windows app (C#/.NET or Rust) that calls Defender's scanning interface, reads Windows configuration through the registry and WMI, and checks for local model servers and secrets in config files. The hard part is designing detection rules for AI-specific risks, such as agent-prompt-injection paths, that are accurate and do not generate false positives. That requires security engineering expertise and ongoing threat research.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 197 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #102 of 198 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 342 days after the earliest competitor.
- DefendScan · ph · 2026-11-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ClawSecure · ph · 2026-03-15 · 316 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- ClawSecure · ph · 2026-05-11 · 247 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- kaspersky-total-security-desktop · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- WinRansomProtect · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- malware-defender · github · 2026-11-10 · 103 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Systweak Antivirus · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- 1401-probe · github · 2026-09-25 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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