Is PeerGuardian doing the Job ?

I use both PG and Hide IP Platinum. PG blocks other IP's from pinging your IP and Hide IP Platinum hides your IP so even if they get through (maybe before a blocklist update) you'd have some protection.

Also, don't just use the 4 blocklists that come with PG but rather use both PG's and the internationally trusted bluetack and blocklist.org blocklists. Just add these to the list manager in Peer Guardian:

http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/ads...nd-bad-pr0n.gz
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/edu.gz
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/spyware.gz
http://lists.blocklist.org/ads.7z
http://lists.blocklist.org/p2p.7z
http://lists.blocklist.org/edu.7z
http://lists.blocklist.org/gov.7z
http://lists.blocklist.org/spy.7z

This will give you a total of 13 blocklists. All updated equally.

For maximum protection choose the "block http" option on PG. If you are surfing and can't get to a site that you really want to get to then temporairily disable "block http" and then reactivate it after surfing.

If I use these utilities, does one get to use rapidshare (and similar) and repeatedly download stuff...since they key off your IP address?

i just started using this prog last nite. i block everything. should i? like schools? do they really need to be blocked? also, say someone is seeding a file and they are seeding from a school. does that mean i can't dl from them or i can they just can't dl from me? one last question... when an ip is being blocked does.. what does that mean? they see my ip and try to access my pc and then can't? don't realy understand this prog yet. tips for a no0b plz! thx.

No all you need to use is the p2p list and you be all set bud.