PeerGuardian 2 and its newest successor PeerBlock...

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:01 am

OK we just release another beta it has a lot of changes/fixes and we’d love for you to check it out…

Grab the Download from here.

http://peerblock.hexagon.cc/torrents/53319-PeerBlock_1_0_R223.torrent

or

http://peerblock.googlecode.com/files/PeerBlock-Setup_v1.0%2B_r223.exe

http://forums.peerblock.com.

You are all invited to come and help us get to that release via logs and donations..

Here’s what’s new since the most recent Beta Release, r202:

* Fixed “PeerBlock doesn’t block unless update at startup” – Thanks to a code contribution by one of our users, “wopeg”, we now have a fix for this problem. Many thanks wopeg!!
* Enabled “Update at Startup” – We’ve re-enabled that as an option, so you can now select or deselect that option at will (in the second settings panel). This setting had been hardcoded to True due to the above bug.
* Fixed XP “Only Works on First Start” Problem – This fixes one of the most annoying recent problems, the one in which on some XP systems PeerBlock would fail to load the driver after the first start of a boot.
* Limit Max Size of History.db – In the Settings panel, there will be a new option “History Size”, defaulting to 0. Setting this to a non-zero value should cause the history.db to be pruned/archived once it reaches this size.
* Systray “Allow HTTP” instead of “Block HTTP” – In the menu that appears when you right-click on the PeerBlock systray icon, the “Block HTTP” item has been renamed to “Allow HTTP”. The thinking behind this is that blocking HTTP should be the default state, with Allow HTTP being the exception. So this should simply make more sense.
* 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.

We also changed a bunch of things behind the scenes – code cleanup, additional tracelogging, updated some third-party libraries, etc.

Visit http://www.peerblock.com/

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:19 am

Sure I'm willing to help.

But your main issue isn't the App, it's your blocklists. There are too many non threatening IPs being blocked. I don't know what you as Developers can do about it, but there it is.

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:35 am

I know a good successor its a wee program from fear-otaku link and it does me Wink

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:39 am

thetazzzz wrote:

I know a good successor its a wee program from fear-otaku link and it does me Wink

Tazz, it uses the same blocklists.

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:44 am

Yes but I would still rather have it mate I only block the important ones level 1 does me Wink

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:29 pm

Yes the list do need to be tweaked some but we are not the ones building them...

I only use Level One and it does just fine for me...

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:26 pm

When will the signed driver be added so it will work on windows 7?

As of now it does the same thing that PG2 does wont load driver.

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:15 am

Oh yeah, that's a biggie. Lucky me, I don't use Vista Twisted Evil

. If not for Fear, our Vista friends would suffer nameless agonies...

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:26 am

I'm too interested to know if it will work on windows 7. So far I've got PG2 to install but it doesn't block a thing! The screen that should have ip'addresses going through it is completely blank. When I boot back into windows 7 I will take a screenshot and add it to this post.

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:58 am

As far as I can tell it will work on Windows 7 x86 but not the x64 flavor yet it has to have signed drivers which the site states it has and will be in the 1.0 release. Very Happy

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:36 am

OK this is what I meant in my previous post. I am now on windows 7 and have got PG2 running in compatibility mode for windows xp sp2, but I'm pretty sure it's not blocking anything!

screenshot 1 updating lists.

screenshot 2 PG2 (apparantly... doing it's job!)

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 11:44 am

djdezzie wrote:

OK this is what I meant in my previous post. I am now on windows 7 and have got PG2 running in compatibility mode for windows xp sp2, but I'm pretty sure it's not blocking anything!

screenshot 1 updating lists.

screenshot 2 PG2 (apparantly... doing it's job!)

I'm getting this too, i did used to get a list of the blocked isp but PG2 kept crashing. So i uninstalled and reinstalled it and i've had the same problem as Dez since.

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:27 pm

ummmmm guys this thread is for Peer Block not Peer Guardian. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:40 pm

Sorry a_d I said in a previous post that I hope this will work on windows 7 as PG2 doesn't and posted some screenshots to show people what I meant.

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:48 pm

It's OK after I posted that I realized it does say peer guardian on it also. Embarassed

But is is mainly to get people to check out peer block.