PeerBlock - block anti-file sharing, ads, spyware, etc.

[guinness]

I was always tracking the Stable (Sept 2009) Version, but if the Beta is Stable enough then maybe its best to state in the Description/Notes that a Beta Version is available and stick to tracking the Stable Version. Though I have read that users have found the Beta Versions to be less buggy!

[joby_toss]

I use the beta and never had a problem with it. But if the authors say it is in beta stage, so should we.

[webfork]

Entry updated with beta / stable notice.

[dot]

The newest PeerBlock Beta 1.1+ (r677) was released the other day (on 27 Nov 2013).

http://www.peerblock.com/releases/inter ... 1.1.0-r677

So far there's only the version with the installer. The link to the portable .zip versions on that page still only has the old version.

[Userfriendly]

You can get zip release here http://code.google.com/p/peerblock/downloads/list

[webfork]

On the recent peer block update:

due to the increasingly heavy traffic they have been sustaining for us, they will be forced to start limiting list downloads for all users, effective Tuesday September 24th. After this date, free users will only be able to download updated lists once per week

http://www.peerblock.com/news/139.html

I think the once-a-week but for folks who donate here is fine, but I wonder if there's any other option here? I realize not everyone can connect to BitTorrent, but surely they can use that to save on 1/2 of their hosting costs? Isn't this the tool that's supposed to enable people to better enable distributed networks? Why aren't they including a distributed download option?

Weird.

[freakazoid]

I donated to iBlockList. It's a very useful service and it's a pretty cheap subscription, so this was a no-brainer.

iBlockList probably doesn't have the resources like other similar subscription services like Adblock Plus does, which probably has multiple times more traffic than they do.

[giulia]

hi

i guess it's not Stealth

seems it creates

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HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_IPFILTERDRIVER
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\IpFilterDriver\Enum

at lest the stable version https://peerblock.googlecode.com/files/ ... sta%29.zip

can someone confirm?

thanks

[giulia]

hi
seeing there is a portable stealth release

Alternatively, Peerblock Portable is stealth and automatically selects the proper Peerblock variant for the current PC.

and seeing i used the non stealth portable version

should i delete the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_IPFILTERDRIVER with their subkeys ?
and should i delte the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\IpFilterDriver or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\IpFilterDriver\Enum

[giulia]

hi
peerblock released by http://portableapps.com/apps/security/p ... k-portable is not stealth

it left HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_IPFILTERDRIVER
on w10 and w8.1 clean install

[Midas]

Have you tried deleting that registry key, to see if the program still runs or the key gets re-created?

[giulia]

Have you tried deleting that registry key, to see if the program still runs or the key gets re-created?

yes
i did it
and i tested on a fresh install of windows 8.1 and w10

[JohnTHaller]

The portable launcher we use for portable apps that use drivers like PeerBlock, WinCDEmu, etc has code to take ownership of the registry keys in question and then delete them if they did not exist before you used the app. Unfortunately, on some systems, the SYSTEM role, which has ownership of the keys by default when the driver creates them, somehow prevents the admin context the app is being run under from taking ownership of the keys and then deleting them. When this occurs, they're actually impossible to delete via Regedit running under Admin as well. At least without a reboot.

Peerblock Portable's page on PortableApps.com lacked the note about this that WinCDEmu and others have. It's been added.

[giulia]

The portable launcher we use for portable apps that use drivers like PeerBlock, WinCDEmu, etc has code to take ownership of the registry keys in question and then delete them if they did not exist before you used the app. Unfortunately, on some systems, the SYSTEM role, which has ownership of the keys by default when the driver creates them, somehow prevents the admin context the app is being run under from taking ownership of the keys and then deleting them. When this occurs, they're actually impossible to delete via Regedit running under Admin as well. At least without a reboot.

Peerblock Portable's page on PortableApps.com lacked the note about this that WinCDEmu and others have. It's been added.

hi
thanks for explanation

[giulia]

The portable launcher we use for portable apps that use drivers like PeerBlock, WinCDEmu, etc has code to take ownership of the registry keys in question and then delete them if they did not exist before you used the app. Unfortunately, on some systems, the SYSTEM role, which has ownership of the keys by default when the driver creates them, somehow prevents the admin context the app is being run under from taking ownership of the keys and then deleting them. When this occurs, they're actually impossible to delete via Regedit running under Admin as well. At least without a reboot.

Peerblock Portable's page on PortableApps.com lacked the note about this that WinCDEmu and others have. It's been added.

hi
just few words , it's offtopic ,but seeing your answer , i guess that even process monitor is not stealth
i will test on a clean installation

thanks