PeerGuardian 2 and its newest successor PeerBlock...

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2010 11:13 pm

Peers refers to the total number of people sharing a file.
Seeders is the number of people that have 100% of the file and are only uploading it.
Leechers is the number of people still sucking the data from the seeders.

The higher the ratio of seeders to leechers , generally the better the health of the torrent.

have a read of this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_vocabulary

and next time please take a moment to consider the best place to post your question as this really doesn't have anything to do with peerguardian or peerblock.

Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 3:43 pm

Well i used to use peerguardian 2 ... and always had a problem with updating the lists... however since i switched over to peerblock iv never had a problem with updating Smile

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:08 pm

Can someone please explain these programs and how or where I can download them? I use uTorrent and VLC and pirate Bay and ISOHunt so will these work with them?
thanks

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 4:52 pm

mage_1227 wrote:

Can someone please explain these programs and how or where I can download them? I use uTorrent and VLC and pirate Bay and ISOHunt so will these work with them?
thanks

Did you read the start of the thread it gives you a link
to Peerblock ....Peerblock has nothing to do with VLC lol. get Peerblock
here http://www.peerblock.com/ ....Some people have Peerblock running all the time others just have it on when running uTorrent ...What Peerblock does is block bad Ips connecting to you the ones that might complain to your isp on what your downloading....Just remember nothing is a 100% safe ...

Peerblock.com wrote:

PeerBlock lets you control who your computer "talks to" on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of "known bad" computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been "hacked", even entire countries! They can't get in to your computer, and your computer won't try to send them anything either.

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:21 pm

thetazzzz wrote:

mage_1227 wrote:

Can someone please explain these programs and how or where I can download them? I use uTorrent and VLC and pirate Bay and ISOHunt so will these work with them?
thanks

Did you read the start of the thread it gives you a link
to Peerblock ....Peerblock has nothing to do with VLC lol. get Peerblock
....Some people have Peerblock running all the time others just have it on when running uTorrent ...What Peerblock does is block bad Ips connecting to you the ones that might complain to your isp on what your downloading....Just remember nothing is a 100% safe ...

Peerblock . com wrote:

PeerBlock lets you control who your computer "talks to" on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of "known bad" computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been "hacked", even entire countries! They can't get in to your computer, and your computer won't try to send them anything either.

I went to download it and to the other site I-Block and got nervous. I don't understand how to add the lists from I-Block to the program once it downloads and I am afraid the program may stop my mom's work programs from working and then I will have to go and add codes and allow stuff in order for her programs to work and frankly I am not that comfortable messing with things I don't understand.
Thanks

Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 3:50 am

Hi mage_1227, PeerBlock will get the lists and update itself everytime you start it. As you're using uTorrent get this and run it once a day it will put the blocklists directly into uTorrent for you. http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=224613&

As for your mom having problems it's very simple, just turn PeerBlock off!! Laughing

Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2010 3:27 am

Peerblocks main program has been updated

Quote:

Here it is, PeerBlock 1.1, released November 22, 2010!

This is a Stable Release of PeerBlock. It includes many bugfixes and a few new features over our last PeerBlock 1.0 Stable Release, and should work great on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7 (plus server variants), both 32- and 64-bit versions. New Stable 1.1.x bugfix releases should come out every few months from here on in, but new feature development releases will be PeerBlock 1.1

http://www.peerblock.com/releases/public-releases/peerblock-1.1.0-r518

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 1:01 am

I have Bt Guard and when i connect it is fine, but when i run PeerBlock (new 1.1) it disconnects me. This did not happen before, im not sure wether it is PB or something i did or need to do. Below is the screen that appears, once this has happened i have to close PB and Utorrent for it to reconnect, Or is it that i dont need to run PB while connected to BT Guard.? Any help would be appreciated.

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:16 am

You will not need run peerblock if you use Bt Guard because its not your real ip showing up in utorrent when using Bt Guard..

Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 4:33 am

thetazzzz wrote:

You will not need run peerblock if you use Bt Guard because its not your real ip connecting to people in utorrent when useing Bt Guard..

Thanks. couldn't figure it out.
BT Guard is pretty good. Its growing on me the more i use it.

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:12 am

Whats the worst that can happen to the average downloader if you don't have peerblock?

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:20 am

Drac0nyx wrote:

Whats the worst that can happen to the average downloader if you don't have peerblock?

you could be sued either way if you are downloading copyrighted material but with peerblock the known bad IP's are blocked,though nothing is 100% effective.

your speeds may also be better with it since the bad ones aren't connecting too you.

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:25 pm

hey you guys, I'm just wondering if there's something wrong with my
peerblock 1.1 as my syst tray icon is orange not blue,
always has been orange but now it keeps flashing on & off,
I've read every page in this 12 page sticky & couldn't find anything even
remotely related, any ideas ??? Rolling Eyes

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:43 pm

I think you have "Allow HTTP" checked, then it's yellow/orange, if it's disable it's blue Wink

Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 7:54 pm

Sued wrote:

I think you have "Allow HTTP" checked, then it's yellow/orange, if it's disable it's blue Wink

oh that's ok then, thanks sued now I just need to find out why it's
flashing in my syst tray like a warning of some sort. Wink