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Hi All, I am new to this site and was doing some simple downloading and got slapped by my internet carrier. Went on Zeropaid and got a lot of help from them, so here I am.
Again, I am not that good but just like getting some music and movies for my grands.
I was told to download peerblock. Ok, done, now is there anything I need to do once downloaded and running.
I really appreciate you all out there with help.
Yes, getting a good blocklist. PeerBlock should have a help file you can refer to.Quote:
Originally Posted by jvnmom123
1)Download peerblock
2)install it
3)installed invokes first configuration wizard
4) wizard ask about lists, you just select checkboxes
5)lists auto installs , blocking starts
done
run it when using utorrent.
If you only use uTorrent, then you can take advantage of its ipfilter.dat support. That's a much better solution.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frankthetank1
isn't peerblocks list bigger and more complete then a list i would get some where else?
Not necessarily, and a bigger list doesn't equal better security, either. I use uIpFilterX because it only blocks IPs that have actively been spotted engaging on harmful activities (that's why it's so small).Quote:
Originally Posted by Frankthetank1
firstly, peerblock does not have any lists, it uses existing blocklist maintained by other peopleQuote:
Originally Posted by Frankthetank1
Bigger is theoretically better, but list like pip(paranoid ip filter) are overprotective and makes your browsing experience terrible.
The problem of filters is, they are updated by volunteers, so they are always one step behind of active threads. They are efficient against static addresses like sony, mpaa and etc but even the pip is not notable effective against active hacker address blocks. So go with level 1.
what is level one? also peerblock updates daily sometimes uIpFilterX hasnt updated since November...
If I remember correctly, you can find it on iblocklist.com when it's up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frankthetank1
What are you talking about? The latest uIpFilter was released last February 27th.Quote:
evedently i cant read dates very well :(. the whole backwards thing throws me off.
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Originally Posted by anon-sbi