PeerGuardian 2.0 RC1 Test 2 user reviews

It won't work on Windows 7, does anyone know of another program that will work on Windows 7?

DOES NOT WORK ON ANY 64 bit SYSTEM SO IF YOU HAVE
VISTA 64 bit OR WIN 7 64 bit DO NOT DOWNLOAD

-XCommanderX

the displaying on only part of the conection in order to save CPU doesn't convince me, i would prefer to see the comunications running as they happen. My policy with my computer is: if it's fast i wanna see it, if is slow i wanna see it. So, what ever my cimputer is/do, i want to see it, if it becomes a bit slower but i control more, then to me is like if it were normal like that, because i am sopoused to control my PC, if it makes it slow then so be it.

another feature i would like is an extra option: only http and only for some ip.
let me put it this way:
NOW:
-we can allow fully access for some IP
-we can completely block access for some IP or allow them only on http.
WHAT SHOULD BE:
-we can allow fully access for some IP or only http access.
-we can completely block some IP.

how to do that? with two buttons "block http", one for the allowed IPs and one for the blocked IPs. With this you can choose if the allowed IPs have full access or only http and you can choose if the blocked IPs should be completely blocked or be allowed on http protocol.

thanks.

dosen work on windows 7 64 bit

following error: -
windows can not verify he digial signaure of this file

Will Not Run On My computer even though its the vista version. Ive tried everything from changing run as admin. options and even changing compatibility. I have used every trick that everyone has said will work, except for downloading multiple things to do one job........ That's just ridiculous.

I wish it could run on Vista

I have done this strange trick proposed by vampiro, that a normal user can not remember to do it each time he powers up i.e
# Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Right click Command Prompt -> Run as administrator.
# Copy the following exactly (without quotes): "bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS". Right click on the title bar, go to Edit -> Paste.
# Reboot the machine
I remember to right click your PG Icon and pick Run as administrator
each time you start PG.

and SOMETIMES it worksBUT - after some time running it stops, and I can not understand why - it freezes - I am not willing to reboot again & make all these tricks again just for a probability of peerguardian to work.

Also it seems to me very much US/UK/CA oriented. For multinationals it seems to block these countries only - for other countries they are innocent you think ?

How can we help into suggesting suspicious ips ? Put some hints in the program - you did so much effort programming. Put documentation IN the program , do not advise us links to search. We have no time for surfing.
The technology must be friendly, not chaotic.

Very good concept and congratulation for the concept & try, but it needs a lot of improvement to be stable and usable (at least for vista).

I think it is an awesome tool for any peer-to-peer user to have.................i had no problems with peer guardian and i hope i have no problems with peer guardian 3............My advice is DOWNLOAD IT NOW

Used PG before vista was out and it's VG but the programme won't open with vista. Got the "Vista test From June" no good.
Come on guys
Help!

Cheers
Sorry for the bad vibes

I truly don't know what some people are talking about, but pg2 RC1 T2 installed within seconds and it runs perfect on my 32-bit vista. Im impressed!

graphical interface doesnt show up and everytime I run it nothing comes up. I have no idea if it's working or not...tried the command prompt thing but came up with the same results next time it started. Using vista 32 bit

http://phrosty.phoenixlabs.org/pg2-rc1/

# Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Right click Command Prompt -> Run as administrator.
# Copy the following exactly (without quotes): "bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS". Right click on the title bar, go to Edit -> Paste. Make sure what was pasted is correct, then hit enter to execute the command.
# Reboot the machine

Works.....
Just remember to right click your PG Icon and pick Run as administrator
each time you start PG.....If you did as info said above it should work.

the user interface doesn' work... running vista ultimate 32

it only starts up the udating and creating general list and then stops

no peergardian browser aan it wil blok any torrent site

Eichan this is the real deal and obviously u dont look very well cause i found the link to verify its from phoenix labs

http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/showthread.php?p=103394#post103394

*** Caution ***
According to the PeerGuardian Homesite
Current official version is PeerGuardian 2.0 Beta 6b

Also don't see news regarding any other release
at the official forum's "Official Updates" thread.

This version also isn't listed at PeerGuardian's sourceforge
file listing.

I maybe wrong, can someone provide evidence that this
is a 'bone fide' release?

It is hard to know that this kind of application does what it says (protect privacy). However it is better than without anything and it does not interfere with my other stuff.

I thought that there wouldnt be much more new in this software, in terms of GUI and such. Like I thought what was in the previous beta wouldnt be updated, since it was damn good. But I was wrong. The GUI got even better...and i like it.


Best tool for people using P2P networks.

jsm i dont know what you are smoking.

You might want to read this old post by an editor over at their site:


Dated: 2/26/2005
Located here: http://text.dslreports.com/shownews/60744
----begin quote----
first of all i'm news editor for methlabs.org
i'm not paid - none of us are - we work for free

some people have suggested that we might be selling PG, so are conning people. this is not true, the program is available from �peerguardian.sourceforge.net

some people have suggested we might be bundling spyware with pg, but we never have. the application is open source, and the sourcecode available from �peerguardian.sourceforge.net

a company DID bundle spyware with our pg1 builds, but we released info to the press and made a page methlabs.org/howtotell to warn people about which builds were infected.

now as for the blocklists - its all a matter of relative security, there is not 100% security from using blocklists, simply because we cannot be 100% sure where BayTSP (and it is usually them) are connecting from.

however, they AREN'T connecting from home DSL addresses, this has been proven countless times. how? well when BayTSP or someone send you a letter they are required to give a time that the infringement occured. now all you have to do is compare your firewall logs with the time on the letter and whois the ranges within a reasonable range of this and.... wow! its a range labled "BayTSP"!

people don't believe its that easy, but it really is - the companies are NOT trying to catch peerguardian users, they are trying to catch less experienced users and make an example of them. going to extreme lengths to capture 0.01% of people (pg users) simply is not feasable, and BayTSP are a COMMERCIAL "detective" company - they're going to do things as cheaply as possible to keep their profits high.

now others have said "but its easy to get your IP off the tracker or some website logs (eg lokitorrent)"

this data would not stand up in court - logs can be faked, and walking into a court and saying "we have his ip address" is not sufficiant proof of anything!

to sucessfully sue you must receive data from the person and proove that it is copyright infringing

this means that if you can block the IP address of the corp trying to get data from you then they have no proof. the sytem is 99% automated anyway, so it will just go and try someone else if it cant get anything from you - the cheapest way, remember?

other ways of getting the evil ppl are to scan for popular songs etc and find the fake files. what RIAA do other than try to capture people is that they attempt to flood p2p networks with fake files

blocking a few IP ranges with peerguardian can massively reduce the amount of fake files you find on some networks

an MIT paper was written on this subject:

�web.mit.edu/patil/Public/805project/

and a news article about it:

�www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?from=f&Ar..

"Indeed, Akshay Patil, a student at MIT, whose paper, Identifying Sources of Spoof Files and Limiting Their Impact in the FastTrack Network, discusses the phenomenon, notes that spoofing has become a considerable problem for the FastTrack network - the network used by Kazaa - with downloaders of popular songs finding a spoof rate of 50 per cent of tracks." ....

"As the spoof files come from a fairly small set of IP addresses (the record companies or anti-piracy firms, obviously), a filter that blocks files from these addresses produces, according to Patil, a *75 per cent reduction* in spoof files. PeerGuardian is a small firewall application available for download that blocks and logs connections to these addresses. The block list is maintained by users and updated daily."

now this paper is very out of date now, and all the addresses in there have long since been improved in accordance with his findings, so one thing pg DOES do is block fake files

now the final points is that the blocklist is a bit messy at the moment, we haven't been maintaining it for a while (other people have) and we think it needs a cleanup

this is why we made blocklist.org, still under construction to let people view the database and report bad and eroneous ranges, and submit new ones that they may have found

Sound ok?
We never said it was 100% but 75% (we've improved a lot since 2003) reduction is pretty good, no?

If anyone has any problems please come on IRC and myself of someone else will be glad to talk to you!

irc.methlabs.org (port 6667)
#methlabs

thanks a lot!

Joseph Farthing
News Editor
Methlabs.org

----end quote----

SO in sum, the version you had might have been a modified copy of PeerGuardian since the source code is widely available. As this is open source they cant include spyware or adware, but its easy for companies to provide fake copies with spyware because the source code is widely available.

Now, that aside...

PeerGuardian is the best tool any person who uses P2P networks could have.
Version 2.0 is an Ultra-Upgrade over version 1.99...its not even funny.
The GUI has been improved, the on screen log has been improved...so many other things.
The program has become what i shall call an anti-badip scanner. First off it acts like a firewall in that it blocks bad IPs. But it has an auto update feature for the blocklists like a virus scanner has with its virus defs...its quite nice.

One thing i dont like is that it doesnt seem to like University IP's...at least on web traffic. I was trying to get help with some physics homework problems and all the sites google listed were at edu sites. And veryone i went to never opened...it took me a little while to figure out that PeerGuardian was blocking the traffic...yeah so that just means if you are going to do webtraffic on university sites, turn off PeerGuardian or EASILY set certain IPs as trusted.

The program requires few resources, its a small download and its free....and it reduces fake files on popular P2P networks by 75% as this PeerGuardian editor said.
What more could you ask for?

HIGHLY recommended...download ASAP.
Sure, one can manually block these IPs in your favorite firewall program, but this thing has lists blocking over 80,000,000 IPs...so i dont thinnk its feasible to do it manually...so download this program to get that blocking ability.