 | Oct 30 2009 |
BILLONCHO Peerguardian gave me a corrupt file message and it had no lists. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it several times but it won't let me add a list. I want to put the P2P list back in. The corrupt file message has gone away since I reinstalled it. Thanks.
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| Jan 5 2009 |
SPRINGHEELMAC Ok, I've added several lists from 'iblocklist.com' and they all update fine. For some reason just the lists that PeerGuardian comes pre-installed with are not updating.
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 | Jul 4 2009 |
SPRINGHEELMAC The blocklists all have been updating fine since about a week or two after the above comment with no problems whatsoever. Sorry for the late update. PeerGuardian works great at keeping known jerks off my system and out of my business. I highly recommend it.
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| Jan 5 2009 |
SPRINGHEELMAC On or about 30 Dec 2008, Peer Guardian stopped updating its block lists. I uninstalled and reinstalled, and now my block lists are even more out of date. Could all the different block list sites be down at the same time? That doesn't seem probable, but I've never had this problem before.
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| Dec 30 2008 |
SHAYMORGAN well, I downloaded peep guardian today, it seems to be workings..i suppose, but i am wondering, do i have to add my p2p url to it somehow? i really don't know what i am doing. Example if i used limewire or azureus or something, do i have to manually go in and add that to peer guardian, or does it automatically block them?
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| Jul 12 2008 |
R33C3 I have had no issues at all with peer guardian, does exactly what its suppose to do. Can't wait for the next update (:
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 | Jun 18 2008 |
BDOBBS This program does exactly what it purports to, and how. It rocks, I've never had problems with stability or anything else, but I've never delved into its depths. All that being said, it's ugly as sin. Really heinously, awfully ugly. I'm not a developer, so I don't know how hard it is to make an app with a UI (or at least a good menu-bar icon), but I hope that they release an update soon. Looks don't really matter that much to me, as long as it's functional, and this is entirely. If it gets a UI facelift, it'll get five stars from me.
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| Mar 25 2008 |
KBOT Installed okay here but I'm wondering if it's doing anything. Nothing seems to be getting blocked--i even activated all the filters and unchecked some boxes so it would disallow "std" (standard ports right?). How can i confirm PG is working?
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| Feb 17 2008 |
OSCAR74 Installs fine, but cannot open Preferences or check the Lists at all. Had to uninstall. Using 10.5.2 on an Intel iMac.
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| Feb 15 2008 |
RATTUS I had the previous version (1.4.2) working without problems, but this version (1.5b1) cannot install properly. The installer stalls with a message to "please try installing again". I have tried running the included uninstall script but it did not help.
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| May 21 2007 |
SMOKEONIT i only use the p2p filter. still gmail and dotmac are being blocked by peerguardian... this sucks bigtime... and there's no way to allow traffic to those servers, WTF...???
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| Feb 16 2008 |
FRACAI Just add your own override list which allows all traffic to the given servers. Then whenever something is blocked, look up the PG logs and figure out which ip is the culprit. Add it to your override and try again.
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| Jan 9 2007 |
UNDERTOW This app is very easy to use, especially if used in conjunction with Growl. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15979 You never have to disable PeerGuardian when you have Growl running, because all the sites I run into that are not allowed are quickly allowed thru Growl. No big whoop! If PeerGuardian works or not. Who really knows? But after a month and a half of use I have not received any emails from my ISP. This review will self-destruct in 5 seconds. Good luck Jim.
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 | Dec 21 2006 |
JACKWEB Mac users please listen up, some of you aren't understanding the focus of this app. Of course it blocks connections to Apple and other 'useful' sites. This is mainly for use when you're downloading stuff off P2P. So you wouldn't want to be tracked by government agencies or companies. This also helps stop you downloading from fake servers. You can turn it off, or selectively disable when you want to surf anywhere. One thing though, I wish this had enable/disable of just HTTP, like in the windows version.
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| Feb 16 2008 |
DOUGSTER Jackweb, are you still using PeerGuardian ? If so, please respond. | |
| Feb 28 2006 |
JOBBY Needs to work on a per-app basis, really. You might want to block P2P apps from Microsoft, but it really doesn't help you talk to friends on MSN when PeerGuardian blocks Adium...
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| Oct 21 2005 |
JUERG DA MASTA This application is a really good idea BUT : I couldn't connect to or use the following things: .Mac Homepage ( Page not found ) apple.com ( Page not found ) America's Army operations 2.3 ( "error couldn't connect to official Servers ...) All online games ( may crash after connecting to a server) and maybe some more that i haven't found yet ... with Internet Explorer i had access to apple.com but i had to think long why my mac couldnt do all the things listed above then i entered a command in terminal to stop this... ( like written in the ReadMe ...) but now i just blocked the IP's from the list with my Firewall, i hope this helps but i hope they make a version who really helps ... but good idea and good work ;)
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| Sep 17 2005 |
ANONYMOUS This blocked ALL communications with Apple, i couldn't use software update, or connecct to the itunes music store, or even visit the apple website, OR even the .mac homepages. I like the idea, but its got a long way to go before it is to be useful. Keep up the work! :P
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| Aug 16 2005 |
MIKE Definitely slows down and crashes the computer. This software caused (for the first time I have ever seen) error messages at the startup of Mac OS X asking me to fix a couple items. Great concept, but I'll wait around for a somewhat stable release.
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| Jun 24 2005 |
ANONYMOUS PG cancels OS X firewall. To prove it I uninstalled PG and the firewall worked again. PG fails to work on mine. Any thoughts on how to make it compatible and work?
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| Jun 11 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Excellent software but freezes computer and slows it down.
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| Jun 10 2005 |
ANONYMOUS 2 GHZ G5 running Tiger, repeted freezes of the operating system requiring manual reboot. My advice, wait until Methlabs comes out with the new version.
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| Jun 11 2005 |
ANONYMOUS What do you think of NFconfig with Netbarrier as root user. It automatically gets peerguardian update if set to customize. You have to search NFconfig I do not know how accurate it is.
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| Jun 3 2005 |
ANONYMOUS This slows down web browsing. Freeze applications on launch and also freezes desktop.
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| May 28 2005 |
TIMOTHY FYI, Apple isn't collection information from you, what you see as it "phoning home" is most likely actually: OR, most likely your clock syncing to time.APPLE.com... OS X doesn't phone home, unless you register durning the install or report a crash to Apple.
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| May 26 2005 |
Apple.com, .mac, .mac mail, .mac sync ALL BLOCKED!! God, how do I uninstall this damn thing?
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| May 26 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Read the 'Editor's Notes' on the PeerGuardian page here on MU.
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| May 29 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Good way to remove is to go to Finder and type peerguardian, then it will show all items pertaining to Peerguardian. You can manually remove files. Be careful of what you remove, read careefully the item you are removing, then restart. That is it. Test it by any browser and log to apple.com. or disney.org. Good luck!
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| May 15 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Sorry from my previous comment about apple.com-if apple is collecting info from its users then I want it blocked. Sorry. Excellent Super-software. Congratulations!
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| May 15 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Apple.com was blocked how could I get around this problem and still use this great software?
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| Dec 19 2004 |
ANONYMOUS ok. i'm not the developer, so i might be wrong on some points here, but to all the people complaining about the software blocking too many 'harmless' ip addresses, the issue isn't so much the software itself, but the peerguardian database. an on-off switch would be nice, however.
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| Dec 11 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Good idea, stupid program. Blocks everything.
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| Dec 2 2004 |
DISGRUNTLEDCANADIAN DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS SOFTWARE. It blocks SOOOO many sites that are harmless. I couldn't even get to APPLE.COM!!! And if you have this program on your computer you also won't be able to connect to iTUnes Music Store. WOrst program EVER! If you have it UNINSTALL it NOW!
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| Dec 2 2004 |
RYAN no, i dont "HAVE TO UNINSTAL IT NOW" you silly. I run it on a dedicated computer that isn't for web surfing or for iTMS purchasing. relax my friend.
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| Jan 30 2005 |
ADE If you have it UNINSTALL it NOW! All very well, have tried : cat /etc/crontab | sudo grep -v "PeerGuardian" > /new_crontab ; sudo mv /new_crontab /etc/crontab and reboot instructions that came as a readme with my version but still can't uninstall. Anybody any clues? Many thanks, have searched via Google and can only finjd the above. | |
| Feb 7 2005 |
ANONYMOUS how do i unistall it i cant find any tracks from it, its not listed anywhere but my by my clock
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| Feb 7 2005 |
ANONYMOUS use this to get rid of peerguardian: http://www.uncg.edu/~akstockf/peersniper.zip
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| Nov 26 2004 |
RYAN Do i need the developer tools installed when i put 10.3 on my machine? when i run the installer, i get: "there were errors installing this software, please try again" I think i left the developer tools off becasue of disk space.
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| Oct 1 2004 |
ANONYMOUS i cannot recommend this software because it blocks too many harmless sites. for example i couldnt visit my own website http://www.adfc-memmingen.de and it is definitly not harmful!! moreover it took me 2 weeks to figure out how to uninstall peerguardian. you need to search for all files named "peerguardian" and then delete them. (actually you can just go to /library/startupitems and /library/application support/ and delete it there but by serch is quicker) bad app!!!
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| Oct 3 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Great app! If you find a site you think shouldnt be blocked just open pg4ipfw.config and delete the ip of the sites you like. You can use various whois websites to find a sites IP address.
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| Aug 25 2004 |
ANONYMOUS after removing the receipt the MacOs firewall worked again Sadder but wiser
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| Aug 25 2004 |
ANONYMOUS No removal and no MacOS firewall. We are not amused
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| Aug 6 2004 |
ANONYMOUS It works well, i.e. it does block certain IP address', but it also blocks some IP's that I don't think are harmful e.g. www.dealmac.com, I'm still not sure why that site is blocked... Anywho, after you use the uninstall command you have to also type in "sudo ipfw flush" to get to sites in the blocked list. I'll use the next version if you can unblock sites with ease and temporarily disable.
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| Aug 16 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Thank YOU for your review. I've had so much trouble with both Peer Vanguard and Peer Guardian - neither seemed to uninstall and there are no directions for Vanguard anywhere (no readme with the download I got!) Your little extra bit about the flush - that was the solution I needed! Thanks!! :)
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| Jul 28 2004 |
MHG It's great! I do hope for a whitelist/blacklist addition though, so I can customize it. And an interface that displays currently blocked IPs like PeerVanguard did (shows IPs that it blocked that tried to connect). Also, a way to disable it temporarily would be great.
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| Jul 27 2004 |
TOMMAY I don't recommend this one, simply because you can't shut it off! After all, there may be times when you do want to surf to Disney, Adobe, etc. Also, the uninstall solution provided does not work; however, after doing a search for all PeerGuardian files and deleting them and restarting, I think I'm back to normal now. You might want to try PeerVanguard instead, although I've had problems with it as well.
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| Jul 23 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Help! I tried to uninstall it, but I still cant access some sites. I did the uninstall recommended in the read me, so why is it still blocking some sites like disney.org
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| Jun 11 2004 |
ANONYMOUS dont think this is the solution, hâ â p://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/
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 | Jun 10 2004 |
JOSEPH FARTHING I'm not the developer, I am the news editor of Methlabs.org, the creator of the original PeerGuardian application (which is open source GPL licenced). We are currently working with appleguru to help bring a Peerguardian solution to Mac, and what he has written so far is early, but looking good. Now, if you have ANY problems and questions, please contact the developer directly at our development forums at http://www,methlabs.org/forums there is a folder for questions related to the Mac version. I hope this will help with your queries. :) News Editor, Methlabs.org
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| Jun 10 2004 |
JOSEPH FARTHING sorry about the typo, the address is http://www.methlabs.org/forums
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| Jun 10 2004 |
ANONYMOUS So, how do you really uninstall this? I am unable to access many sites I could before... Is a restart required after the: cat /etc/crontab | sudo grep -v "pg4ipfw" > /new_crontab sudo mv /new_crontab /etc/crontab ... commands?
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| Jun 21 2004 |
APPLEGURU Whoops.. no restart required (Although that'd do it...), but to fully clear ipfw type (In ther trerminal): followed by rturn and youradmin password, and another return. That will clear the DB from ipfw, and your sites shall return. /me is slowly working on an interface to remove blcoked sites w/o needing to uninstall PG...
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| Jun 4 2004 |
ANONYMOUS After installing PeerGuardian I was only able to go to the riaa.org-site. All other ports or websites have been locked. I was´nt able to write or get mails, to start Limewire or to open an FTP-port. Something went wrong. I´m sure. Now I have trashed PeerGuardian and everything is all right. Now I will wait for PeerGuardian 1.1 before I will install this application again.
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| Jun 4 2004 |
APPLEGURU Hmmm... I'm really curios as to why this would happen (Especially that you were _only_ able to go to riaa.org... *That's* odd. What version of OS X are you running? (If this is a bug... I want to fix it ;))
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| Jun 2 2004 |
MUMUG I wonder if I can unblock some of the IPs because it blocked some of the web page that I want to visit and online game too.
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| Jun 2 2004 |
APPLEGURU Yes, you can.. as to how to do it, I'm a bit busy at the moment, but when I get back, I'll post instructions.
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| Jun 2 2004 |
LEGS To the developer: You really NEED to respond to these inquiries. You really DO. | |
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| Jun 2 2004 |
APPLEGURU I do sleep you know.... :-P
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| Jun 2 2004 |
LEO OF BORG That's the rub, eh? If you're a one man band you can either develope, or document / support users... That being said, between the reviews, AppleGuru's tutorial on PeerVG, and all these revisions there is probably enough information floating around to choose or modify a solution for themselves. Using the tutorial, the Python script, PeerVG and some moxy I have PeerVG running (sometimes), only when needed), updating at the appointed time, using the py script (tweaked for PeerVG, of course). Kudos to AppleGuru for providing an viable alternative, and all of this information! Thanks!
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| Jun 7 2004 |
LEGS Thanks appleguru-youâre a good man ;-)
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| Jun 2 2004 |
ANONYMOUS I have no idea if this is running correctly on my machine or not. I followed your instructions on your website and I downloaded CronniX but I keep getting this when I run the script ..."The output will appear below when the command has finished executing" Nothing seems to happen. It would be really useful if you somehow combined PeerVanguard and PeerGuardian so that users can tell whether it is installed/running on their machine. An On/Off tab, as well as a tab for access attempts (a la PeerVanguard) would be superfantastic!
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| Jun 2 2004 |
APPLEGURU Those instructions were from before I made an installer; but in any case, if you followed them, all should be working fine in the background (Quit CronniX). There will be no visual confirmation that it is working. In any case, I reccommend that you update to the newer method by just downloading and installing via the installer here. (Delete the script you added to CronniX)
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| Jun 2 2004 |
ANONYMOUS i also installed it but can still access the mpaa site. Not being able to access this site if the test that PeerGuardian specifies.
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| Jun 2 2004 |
APPLEGURU I'm looking into it (See comment below)
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| Jun 2 2004 |
LEO OF BORG I actually have PeerVanguard set up thanks to MacGuru's excellent tutorial.. my question is, can I get an OFF switch as with PeerVG? Shields up! Shields down! I can cat the ip ranges of the config file, but PeerVG's name resolution tab is much better... Any chance of morphing these apps together? Pretty please? PeerVG seems to work but it's ooooold.
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| Jun 2 2004 |
APPLEGURU I'll be working on newer functionality, and have been chatting with the developer of PV... There is a chance that the two could be morphed... and a higher chance that some sort of GUI will (eventually) be added to this app.
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| Jun 2 2004 |
ANONYMOUS I have installed it, but I can still acces mpaa.org. How do I check if it is correct installed on my machine?
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| Jun 2 2004 |
APPLEGURU Hrm... I'm looking into this, but it appears as though the main site for the mpaa and riaa's IPs are no longer in the list (The one maintained by methlabs). I'll get back to you on this.
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| Jun 2 2004 |
ANONYMOUS 0.03 input into the crontab has the hour as 0,12 (0-comma-12), is this accurate?
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| Jun 2 2004 |
APPLEGURU Yes, that means to do work at both midnight (0) and noon (12). Cron accepts comma delimited lists (And ranges as well). 0,12 is correct.
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| Jun 1 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Okay I have both PeerVanguard and PeerGuardian installed. Does PeerVanguard have to be running in order for PeerGuardian to work. Is it possible to not have PeerVanguard running and have PeerGuardian protect my computer automatically? I'm kinda sorta confused :-(
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| Jun 1 2004 |
APPLEGURU Yes! PeerGuardian takes precedence over PeerVanguard, and you can completely delete/disable PV if you want. PeerGuardian works independent of the PeerVanguard application.
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| Jun 1 2004 |
ANONYMOUS So is this enabled all the time? No application was installed so how do I configure this? With PeerVanguard, I can see access attempts to my computer, how can I see attempts using this?
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| Jun 1 2004 |
APPLEGURU "So is this enabled all the time? No application was installed so how do I configure this? With PeerVanguard, I can see access attempts to my computer, how can I see attempts using this?" You can actually use PeerVanguard to check for attempts to access your computer still, as it just reads the ipfw database (Which is the same database this 'app' uses.) Alternatively, you can just check ipfw. Fire up the terminal and type: sudo ipfw show , followed by return, your admin password, and another return. A list, similar to that in PeerVanguard will appear, although you wont get the names from the original .p2p list like PV shows them... ...As of this version, you don't configure this, it does its thing automatically, although if your a bit terminal savvy and you want to see exactly what its doing/change its behavior, have a look at /etc/crontab (to look at this, throw echo /etc/crontab at the terminal...) And yes, this is installed "All the time". If you want to temporarilly disable the firewall, just fire up the terminal and sudo ipfw flush it... (You can probally do this via System Prefs as well. Remember though, this is an initial release 8)
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| Jun 6 2004 |
APPLEGURU ...and by echo /etc/crontab I meant cat /etc/crontab 8)
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| Jun 1 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Where is the author's website? Is this similar to PeerVangaurd? How do you spell that one particular Latin phrase? I think you know the one...
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| Jun 1 2004 |
APPLEGURU I don't really have a site for this application at this time (Although when/if I do it'd probably be located on my comcast page... http://appleguru.home.comcast.net/ As for similarity to PeerVanguard, this application basically _is_ PeerVanguard, minus any GUI, and much enhanced. In fact, it uses ipfwFast *from* PeerVanguard (See the readme), and future versions will include the .jar from PV as well for enhanced capabilities. What this application does that PV doesn't is keep your list automatically updated, a feature that because PV lacked encouraged me to cook up this solution. This application is just an installer for ipfwFast and the auto update script; it's set it - and forget it type software that runs 100% in the background. _I_, as the developer, take the list maintained by methlabs (The creators of PeerGuardian), convert it using the PeerVanguard .jar (Never a feature actually publicized anywhere, but doable via the java command and the cli nonetheless) to an ipfw compatible list of ips, which then gets hosted online (Here if you're curious: http://appleguru.home.comcast.net/pg4ipfw.config ). This gets done every 12 hours on _my_ end. On your end, the cron script, which runs at midnight and noon every day, installed via the installer downloads this list of IPs for ipfw, flushes your current ipfw list, and adds the new one. Future versions will allow you the choice of using my converted list or creating the converted list yourself (The end result being the same...) BTW, what latin word are you referring to? :-P
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| Jun 1 2004 |
PIRATE HOORAY!
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