PeerGuardian V2.0 rc1    Suggested by Hank7 - Updated by webfork on 3 May 2010 1MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (404) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (5) - Post comment - Permalink

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 pg2bc: Current version 2.0 Beta 6c is not shown on homepage.
http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/t13237-pg2-beta-6c-testing.html [2007-04-12 06:01]

 adamh: Since it uses a packet filtering driver to work, I beliueve you will need "Admin" priviledges to run the NT version of the app. Just try it and see though :) The 9x version should work, I'd think, since it doesn't use the pgfilter.sys driver (9x doesn't offer kernel level drivers AFAIK), but it also will only filter TCP when using the 9x version. the NT Version will filter nearly everything. [2007-04-12 11:03]

 Webfork: As close as portable freeware gets to a firewall, PG blocks a lot of nasty IP addresses that shouldn't be connecting to you in the first place. But I've also found it does a few other things:

[Filesharing]
Absolutely essential for use with almost any filesharing program because it both blocks [many -- not all] regulation organizations like the RIAA and bad data sources who try to poison the network.

[Web filter]
The program can also be used to filter bad Web (HTTP) traffic but is usually lethal in this regard -- you will have to "allow" (by right-clicking block notices) quite a few addresses to be able to surf the Internet normally. Consider using the Firefox plugins "noscript" or "adblock plus" instead.

[Sysadmins]
With some configuration tweaking, system administrators can use it as an extra layer of security, running it hidden to block listed spyware distributors. [2007-08-17 08:58]

 mark: Followed the instructions above but received error about unable to load kernel driver(?). Has anyone seen this and what is the way around it?
thanks in advance [2008-04-06 12:04]

 a: It should be noted this comes without filters, and with filters the size can be roughly over 10 megs. [2008-08-03 09:37]

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