Keep the bad guys out
Written by Ernesto on January 07, 2006Do you hate the MPAA / RIAA and other company’s that spy on your download behavior? Are you tired downloading fake chunks of a file? Then it’s probably wise to cover your arse by installing peerguardian or protowall. This will keep (most of the) the bad guys out.
Peerguardian and Protowall serve as “mini” firewalls [...]
Do you hate the MPAA / RIAA and other company’s that spy on your download behavior? Are you tired downloading fake chunks of a file? Then it’s probably wise to cover your arse by installing peerguardian or protowall. This will keep (most of the) the bad guys out.
Peerguardian and Protowall serve as “mini” firewalls and block ip’s of potential intruders. The so called blocklists are updated daily and can be edited to your needs.
Both applications seem to do the job. However installing Protowall is a bit more complex for most people. If you’re still on a 486 with 32mb ram Peerguardian “Lite” is probably the best option.
note: Most BitTorrent clients can handle blocklists without using Peerguardian or Protowall. But make sure these lists are up-to-date then
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Few important points to consider:
1) The effectiveness of these lists is highly questionable.
2) Many of these lists are completely inaucurate. They contain millions of incorrect IPs, and cant guarantee they auctually filter any of the scanners IPs. The people who maintain the list (bluetack) are morons who seemingly put zero thought into what blocks they use. If everybody ran this software p2p would fall apart because 95% of the internet would be blocked, including all the seeders. Dont use this trash software until the lists it uses are brought up to any sort of standards at all.
I agree with the first comment. The effectiveness of these list has not been proven.
However, the second point is nonsense, these people work hard to keep the lists up-to-date. Sure there will be Ip’s on there that do not belong there, but not like u suggest.
And people like to have a (false) sense of security. Please don’t ruin that.
Hard work doesnt mean the end result is of any standards at all. These morons have blocked entire carriers (Backbones) and entire floors of a datacenter (thousands of servers) all because of a suspicious company name. Does that sound like they are competant to decide who your computer should talk to?
Thank god they invited a “enable http” option.
Just because they are not up to your standards does not mean they are up to ANY standards. These technologies are still in their relatively early stages, and cannot be expected to live up to the strictest standards quite yet. As with any technology, it will most likely get better as time goes on, but we have to try to be patient.
I’d rather block a whole data center with some nasty ips on it then allow the nasty ips in.
saywhat bitches got schooled.
If they are so inaccurate, join teh community and help perfect them.
But of course, nothing will ever be complete, 100% protection. The internet is ever-evolving.
I think u people all got wrong.I have using peer guardian software and tell u people it really blocks http.I think u people will be usin option block everything.Instead of that enable the option p2p only.
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Just get a paid for Proxy and hide your IP.
1. The lists are inaccurate because any idiot can change his ip and there are new dynamic ip’s every second. You’d have to ban the whole internet to be safe, so what’s the point? Do you really think any “bad guy” company who is after file sharers will have any trouble going around these programs ? Get Real!
2. They block legit adresses, too, which only slows you down but doesn’t protect you from anything (see 1)
3. Peer Guardian managed to restart my pc (which had been running rock solid for 24/7 for weeks before) in random intervals when i tried it out, great work guys ;-)
Actually my friends your arguments are well founded, the main point here would be not to create a list of IP’s that are “dangerous” or somehow associated with anti-piracy legislation, instead they should be working on an application that would list all known IP’s that are not!
You start with a basic premise, every IP online is a possible monitoring area for the said “threat”. Instead of worrying about locating it, merely block all of them, then build a full list of the ones that aren’t a threat. In time this will come to encompass most Websites in use, and be much more complete than others. It would offer the best security in my opinion…
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Of course, if you have a reason to run from the RIAA and what not, then stop using the client… burn!
works for me! And, i think its a great program. especially useful when chinese hackers go on a field trip via your computer. plus can identify what sites use cookies that i don’t want spying on me thx. up yours. burn that mfs
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