What is DadGuard?
DadGuard is an open-source project by Sai Dutta Abhishek Dash, a founder and engineer based in Odisha, India. It belongs to the Security & Systems category, and is a Windows Security Watchdog for Family Members. Lightweight Windows security watchdog for protecting non-technical family members. Real-time threat monitoring with minimal system overhead. The primary implementation language is C#. It uses C#, Windows Security, Real-time Monitoring. Watches for suspicious processes and raises alerts in real time. Targets non-technical family members, so it stays deliberately lightweight on system overhead. Other systems in the same track are Vulscany, CL-Chat Reborn, Forensic-Recovery, and PraharShield. The full source code is public at https://github.com/instax-dutta/DadGuard. Sai Dutta Abhishek Dash has shipped 22 open-source production systems, maintains 85+ public repositories on GitHub, and has published 46+ models and 22+ datasets on Hugging Face.