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version: 1.0.0R223(beta)
Size: 1,83 MB
License: Freeware/FREE
OS:Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
Developer: Phoenix Labs
PeerBlock lets you control who your computer “talks to” on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of “known bad” computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been “hacked”, even entire countries! They can’t get in to your computer, and your computer won’t try to send them anything either.
Peer Block maintains the functionality of the original Peer Guardian 2 program, but includes fixes for various issues that remain unaddressed in the latest (~2 year old) version of PG2.
New in This Release:
- iBlocklist Lists – We’ve updated our standard list URLs to point at iblocklist.com lists instead of the original peerguardian.sourceforge.net ones. They are faster, and are much more reliable – no more “Error contacting URL” messages! We will also upgrade your pre-existing lists from sourceforge.net hosted ones to iblocklist.com ones. Also note that the “Gov” list has been removed, since its contents were merged with the “P2P” list long ago.
- Installer Rewrite – Our newest Dev Team member, XhmikosR, has pretty much completely rewritten the installer from scratch. Most importantly, it should actually work now, even during uninstall! (Not that you’ll ever want to uninstall PeerBlock, of course, but just in case…)
- Updated List Manager – Reworked this window a bit, to make it easier to get back to the lists 
originally presented to you in the Startup Wizard.
- Allowed Connections Displayed – By default, the “Show allowed connections” option will be disabled. (This is due to performance reasons, as the tool will consume considerably more CPU if displaying of allowed connections is enabled.) We are still logging the first 9 allowed packets though, so that you know that we’re actually working!
- Save Settings – We’ve added a “Save” button to the settings panel, so that you can be sure your settings updates have been saved.
- List Verification - After downloading an updated list, we’ll now make sure that the file contains at least one ip-address range before we’ll overwrite your old list. This way you will be protected against your lists being corrupted while downloading them.
- New Splashscreen! – I know, everybody hates the Splashscreens. And no, we’re not re-enabling them by default. However, one user (Mourad) sent in a new splashscreen for us that I think is too good to let fall completely by the wayside, so we’re including it as our sole splashscreen pic . . . if you choose to manually enable it.
- Changed Error Text – The messages that show up for Exceptions have been changed to not say “This information has been automagically sent to Phoenix Labs, thanks for helping improve PeerGuardian!”. Also, changed the “unable to load packet filtering driver” message, to something more meaningful.
- Installer Changes: “Reset PeerBlock settings” should always be deselected – “Reset PeerBlock Settings” should always start deselected even if you’d previously selected it. Same thing with the “Uninstall PG2″ task. Archived files are only removed if you tell it to remove PeerBlock settings.
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