gHacks technology news » fake-trackers http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:26:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Block IP addresses with Peer Guardian http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/30/block-ip-addresses-with-peer-guardian/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/30/block-ip-addresses-with-peer-guardian/#comments Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:55:01 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/30/block-ip-addresses-with-peer-guardian/ Why would you need another program to block IP addresses if you already have a firewall ? A good question that can be answered easily. Peer Guardian uses a database of bad IP addresses and blocks them automatically as soon as the IP is added to the database of blocklist.org. A single user would have to know that a new IP (range) poses a thread and add it manually to his firewall.

Peer Guardian already has many IP addresses blocked that are uses by the MPAA to spread fake torrents and record IP addresses of the peers that download the torrents. Blocklist distinguishes the following categories: ads, bogon, edu,game,gov, p2p,phishing, spam and spy. The most important category for most users will be p2p of course and a installed Peer Guardian client will make sure that your client will not connect to the fake torrent clients and IPs. (if they are in the range that is blocked)

You do not need to configure your file sharing application to work with Peer Guardian, everything is done automatically. You can add sites that you definitely need to the allow list to make sure that they will never be blocked by Peer Guardian.

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