Block RIAA and other harmful IP's, with your firewall

chaos945 · January 24th, 2004

I was searching around the internet and I noticed a program called PeerGuardian, seeing it before but not paying close attention I lazily downloaded and installed it to see if it was any good. Besides the gigantic footprint, it appeared to be a reasonable app, which maintains a list of banned IP's designated by the author(s).

Originally Posted by Officially

The PeerGuardian IP database contains those IP addresses suspected to be used by the music industry to probe and identify MP3 music file sharing servers. These IP addresses, for example, may represent computers owned by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) or the Motion Picture Association of America. The maintainers of PeerGuardian refresh its IP database regularly.

Not only these organizations but many others.

Now the thing about it is you can export this list and import it directly into any popular firewalls that support custom filters!

After further research I came back with a program called ZAUpdate specifically built for ZoneAlarm Pro* users. By backing up the xml file used to store user preferences in ZoneAlarm Pro the program combines the database used in PeerGuardian and creates rules so you don't have to import them all, which would take FOREVER. So you can keep your banned IP's list up to date and not worry about doing everything manually yourself. PeerGuardian itself has the feature to export its list aswell.

To summarize, by exporting the database and combining it into the custom filters list of your firewall, you effectively block out these harmful sites without having to run a 3rd party apps or built in blockers such the one included in the KazaaLite versions, which I might add utilizes the PeerGuardian database file itself.

Listed below is the ZAUpdate site, PeerGuardian and a handy online filter conversion site (Azureus support is on this page!)

ZAUpdate Homepage
PeerGuardian
Filter Conversion

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allbusiness · January 27th, 2004

wow, nice find... many thanks, i switched to ZA just to use this ^_^

belveder · January 27th, 2004

I tried ZA once but it slowed my browsing down to much, then again that was on my old Celeron 850. Is it still known for slowing down browsing? My ISP reccomends against using it for some strange reason

fantasi · January 27th, 2004

which ISP is that belveder? get other firewalls like tiny or somethin to protect. Better something then nothing in my book.

chaos945 · January 27th, 2004

...import it directly into any popular firewalls that support custom filters!

You could use another firewall and benefit from this.

leedogg · January 28th, 2004

That filter conversion site is awesome. This beats the hell out of using that resource hog peerguardian..

allbusiness · January 28th, 2004

well trend micro internet security's firewall sucked in my opinion

so better to switch anyway

January 24th, 2004	Top \| #1
chaos945 OSNN Senior Addict Joined: February 2003 Posts: 932 Reputation: 300 Power: 122	Block RIAA and other harmful IP's, with your firewall I was searching around the internet and I noticed a program called PeerGuardian, seeing it before but not paying close attention I lazily downloaded and installed it to see if it was any good. Besides the gigantic footprint, it appeared to be a reasonable app, which maintains a list of banned IP's designated by the author(s). Originally Posted by Officially The PeerGuardian IP database contains those IP addresses suspected to be used by the music industry to probe and identify MP3 music file sharing servers. These IP addresses, for example, may represent computers owned by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) or the Motion Picture Association of America. The maintainers of PeerGuardian refresh its IP database regularly. Not only these organizations but many others. Now the thing about it is you can export this list and import it directly into any popular firewalls that support custom filters! After further research I came back with a program called ZAUpdate specifically built for ZoneAlarm Pro* users. By backing up the xml file used to store user preferences in ZoneAlarm Pro the program combines the database used in PeerGuardian and creates rules so you don't have to import them all, which would take FOREVER. So you can keep your banned IP's list up to date and not worry about doing everything manually yourself. PeerGuardian itself has the feature to export its list aswell. To summarize, by exporting the database and combining it into the custom filters list of your firewall, you effectively block out these harmful sites without having to run a 3rd party apps or built in blockers such the one included in the KazaaLite versions, which I might add utilizes the PeerGuardian database file itself. Listed below is the ZAUpdate site, PeerGuardian and a handy online filter conversion site (Azureus support is on this page!) ZAUpdate Homepage PeerGuardian Filter Conversion

January 24th, 2004	Top \| #2
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allbusiness on drukqs Joined: January 2004 Posts: 48 Reputation: 10 Power: 99	wow, nice find... many thanks, i switched to ZA just to use this ^_^

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belveder OSNN Senior Addict Joined: March 2003 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 267 Reputation: 40 Power: 111	I tried ZA once but it slowed my browsing down to much, then again that was on my old Celeron 850. Is it still known for slowing down browsing? My ISP reccomends against using it for some strange reason

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fantasi My Yngy is My HoneY! Joined: January 2004 Location: Perth Posts: 307 Reputation: 100 Power: 103	which ISP is that belveder? get other firewalls like tiny or somethin to protect. Better something then nothing in my book.

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chaos945 OSNN Senior Addict Joined: February 2003 Posts: 932 Reputation: 300 Power: 122	...import it directly into any popular firewalls that support custom filters! You could use another firewall and benefit from this.

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leedogg Gojyone kawaiiiiiiii! Joined: March 2002 Posts: 820 Reputation: 190 Power: 131	That filter conversion site is awesome. This beats the hell out of using that resource hog peerguardian..

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allbusiness on drukqs Joined: January 2004 Posts: 48 Reputation: 10 Power: 99	well trend micro internet security's firewall sucked in my opinion so better to switch anyway