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By: Dolly Grover

Dolly Grover — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:07:09 +0000

and how do you clean this history file?

By: daniel

daniel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:44:04 +0000

hi if i download from rapid share will peer guardian protect me or is it useless

By: Versatile

Versatile — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:53:50 +0000

In these cases, some would say that a private torrent site like torrentleech may help, as you need to be a member in order to download. What are chances MPAA or BSA or other has a torrentleech account? :0

By: sliced

sliced — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:16:07 +0000

for vista and windows 7 you should use PeerBlock. It’s the same program but is updated and is digitally signed.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:13:46 +0000

Lose that giant .log file by creating a text doc on your desktop > save as: (whatever it’s called).log > paste it into the Program File folder > replace it when asked. Opening and deleting the body/text is often not an option due to the sheer size of these monsters.

I’ve used PG in concert with Protowall for years now (I also utilize BLM & now Peerblock)with stellar results. PG is great at stopping outbound packets, while PW is much better at blocking inbound.

Learn to configure your firewall properly, incorporate block lists when applicable, get behind a router (hard-firewall) if not already, keep those lists up to date.

Also, if you’re having trouble running any of these in Vista – try to run in “compatibility mode” it will often help.

By: TheOverWhelming

TheOverWhelming — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:42:33 +0000

It works with Vista 64bit, you just got to google a few things. I have Vista 64bit and PG2, Vista likes to disable not digitally signed drivers.

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By: ian

ian — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:14:49 +0000

Yeah it doesn’t do any good if the 3rd party say, FOX intentionally releases a movie like say, Wolverine working print and then sits on the torren themselves to get IP’s so they can sue and make millions and still get killer ticket sales because of all the publicity. They are just collecting IP’s by the hundreds of thousands. Well that’s my theory anyway.

But yeah they can get IP’s simply by downloading the torrent themselves.

By: PG2 Useless

PG2 Useless — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:43:12 +0000

Further… If u think about it all the IP addresses are logged in torrent announce window for all to see. Companies don’t have to worry about blocked IP addresses all they have to do is sit in a active torrent and write down all the IP addresses that leech.

By: PG2 Useless

PG2 Useless — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:39:10 +0000

PG is actually quite useless against stopping companies discovering you IP address and tracking down your ISP for ban. PG can only stop MPAA and others from hacking ur box. Trust me PG didn’t stop me from getting nicked in only 15mins after I started a torrent (UT3) I got a blocked by my ISP. Couldn’t believe it… The only way to aviod detection as I have now found out is through secure
VPN services, unfortunatly most good one’s cost money.

By: Nicbot

Nicbot — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:52:26 +0000

Seen this… ’some tweaks’ is an under statement.

http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/showthread.php?t=15268

This is unacceptable IMO.

Minus the tweaks, it’s still unstable. The one thing I don’t want my IP filter to do is to go down in the middle of the night :/

Azureus/Vuze has a built in Blocklist manager which seems to work fine. IMO this works much better on Vista 64 than PG2, especially using the classic interface.

Vuze is a bit heavier on the system, but the hit definitely out weighs all the system tweaks needed to get pg2 on v64 running. I mean, booting to ‘without driver signing’ every time…maybe if torrents and PG2 is all my machine was for.

No thanks.

By: lavis

lavis — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:52:59 +0000

Yes peerguardian does support 64-bit Vista I’ve been running it for months.

You can’t download the client they have on their website you have to go to their forums where they have a beta client for vista 64-bit users. The client will require you to do some tweaks all outlined in the thread.

http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/showthread.php?t=14168&highlight=vista

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By: nicbot

nicbot — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:51:25 +0000

It’s usually not your ISP who is doing the tracking, but they hold all of the data needed to prosecute.

Usually your ISP will receive a warning from a 3rd party tracking company on behalf of say HBO. They’ll warn that said IP address (insert your IP address here) belongs to the ISP and that it is in violation of copyright infringement blah blah blah.

Your ISP will then either forward the letter with a warning of some sort or just a warning to you.

To answer your question, no. PG2 will not block your ISP from tracking what you do, but it will (as best it can) block the 3rd party company(s) from tracking you.

Good luck! And remember it’s not a 100% safe downloading solution. It’s just another layer of security in your favor.

By: SandyP

SandyP — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:55:24 +0000

Once we received a warning from our ISP for downloading some new English movies. With this program, can I download movies and still my ISP can not track my traffic??

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By: Versatile Ninja

Versatile Ninja — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:09:43 +0000

I don’t know about WHS in particular, but I do know that PG2 does have an autoupdate feature. Tell it to update daily, every other day, once a week, or whatever you want it to do.

By: Nicbot

Nicbot — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:37:24 +0000

Ongoing but slow. If you’re even a medium P2P user, you NEED something like this imo.

If you want to get a more advanced blocklist manager scope this:
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?act=dscriptca&CODE=viewcat&cat_id=2

That will allow you to gather multiple lists into one file separate from PG2. You can then just point PG2 at that file. The interface is a little kluge, but it serves it’s purpose. Blocklists can also be found at bluetack.

Good luck!

By: nick

nick — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:31:48 +0000

Cool, but I wouldn’t want to have to log into(RDP) WHS everytime I wanted to update the blocklist. To meet my needs it would need to either automatically load a block list from a given folder, like utorrent can load torrent files or have a WHS console front end. Of course if it could just update automatically that would be perfect. Anybody know if devlopment is still ongoing with this app? Perhaps PG3 could have some new features like this.

Cheers.

By: Nicbot

Nicbot — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:43:24 +0000

Updating blocklists in pg2 is even simpler than that. You just feed it the blocklist host url and it will auto update at said intervals.

You can feed it as many as you like too without using a blocklist manager. PG2 is an amazing app. I just wish they could get it to work with Vista 64 already /sigh

By: Nicbot

Nicbot — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:40:05 +0000

32 yes 64 no :/

…Argh.

By: Versatile Ninja

Versatile Ninja — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:15:19 +0000

I think I did get PG2 to work in Vista, 32 bit version (is easiest). They do have a Vista client.

Even better, the same client works great in 32 bit Windows 7 beta!!!! I tried it on the 64-bit version, but I couldn’t get it to work properly.

By: nick

nick — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:18:56 +0000

Great Post!

this sounds great, I have my Windows Home Server running my p2p stuff, so I guess I’d need to run peer gaurdian as a service on that. hopefully updating the block lists would then be as simple as copying a file to a folder on the WHS. Would be very interested in hearing if anyone else is using this in that way?

Thanks.

By: Mr. Chopper

Mr. Chopper — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:01:37 +0000

Another big thing (literally) to watch out for is the history log file in the PeerGuardian directory of “Program Files”. If you don’t keep a check on this, you can find yourself rapidly losing disk space and wondering why.

Having not deleted or checked the history file for over a year, mine was over 4 gigs!

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:48:35 +0000

Does it already support VISTA? Last time I checked it didn’t support VISTA

By: imdragon

imdragon — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:06:15 +0000

I’ve been using PeerGuardian for almost 2 years now and it works like it says it does. The only thing that I have to keep on eye on is that sometimes after I update the lists (which is almost every day) is that I have to check to see if it blocks Google (when I’m downloading my email via Outlook) to allow it. Other than that it’s not a big deal.

By: Versatile Ninja

Versatile Ninja — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:47:37 +0000

I have been using peerguardian since I ever started with P2P. Remember, the ipblock list is only as good as your source.

I love to go to iblocklist.org for the latest lists to integrate into PG2.