Are you afraid of unauthorized connections to your computer system when you're online (which is basically all the time)? The internet is not a safe place, that's for sure.
So, you need to take the appropriate measures and protect your private files from malicious activity.
PeerGuardian is a small firewall freeware, capable of blocking incoming and outgoing connections. It uses the configuration found in the IP blacklist.
Due to the fact that threatening connections are getting better with time, PeerGuardian has access to an online blocklist database which is continuously updated.
In the settings menu, you can opt for PeerGuardian to automatically start with windows, to always start hidden, and to show splash.
At updates, PeerGuardian and lists can be checked, and an automatic update can run at every given number of days.
In addition, you can input a specific proxy, and choose to for the update window to automatically close after a given number of seconds.
In the main window, you can see the history of activity run by PeerGuardian – time, range, source, destination, and protocol. Disabling can be done at any time.
Use it at home, at work, or when you're on the go, and have the certainty that the privacy of your personal files is kept.
This is an older version of PeerGuardian, so a newer one is available.