PeerBlock 1.0+ (r404)
What IS PeerBlock?
The short version is: PeerBlock blocks "known bad" computers from accessing yours, and vice versa. Depending on the lists you have it set up to use, you can block governments, corporations, machines flagged for anti-p2p activites, even entire countries! Whether you're sharing files with Bittorrent or just surfing the web, PeerBlock can help protect you from the bad guys.
Read more:
Code:http://www.peerblock.com/docs/faq
Download:
Note: Usually I dont recommend beta releases, but Peerblock is an exception, it fixes bugs found in the latest stable release and has a few additional features tooCode:http://www.peerblock.com/releases/interim-releases/peerblock-1.0.0-r404
Change log:
Major changes since the most recent Beta Release, r320:
* Better "Last Updated" handling for list-update checking - Many users have been experiencing problems with updated lists not being detected, after iblocklist.com's change to start reporting actual last-modified timestamps. We should now be correctly catching updated lists.
* Updated History Setting Defaults - Changed the defaults for History settings to "Remove every 7 days" and Max Size = 100 MB. If your settings have these left at the old defaults, PeerBlock will pop up a window during your first run that advises you that it's making these changes. This should help prevent problems with history.db becoming corrupted and/or growing to an absurd size.
* Changed Systray-icon Left-click Handling - New behavior: If the window is minimized, restore it. If the window is at all hidden by other windows, bring it to top. If window is already at top, minimize it.
* Changed "Allow HTTP for X min" Visible Handling - If you select the "Allow HTTP for X min" option in the right-click menu, that option will now be highlighted. Previously, it would highlight the "Allow HTTP" button. Also note that transitioning from one Allow HTTP state to another will not start Blocking HTTP, only clicking a currently-selected Allow HTTP option will restart HTTP Blocking.
* New Manually-settable Options - Added two options to the peerblock.conf config-file, for people who don't like some of the new features we've added during our Beta period. "ListSanityChecking" lets you disable the List-add Sanity-checking (for dupes, non-iblocklist URLs, etc.) by setting it to "no"; "WarningIconForHttpAllow" lets you make it so that we will not change to a yellow "warning" icon if you're Allowing HTTP, if you set it to "no".
* New Splashscreen and Installer Pic - These have been updated with some new images sent in by the new Graphics Guy on our team, Mourad.
Minor Changes
These changes should impact you less than the previously-mentioned ones, but are still things that have gone in recently in case you're interested.
* Edu View button now works - Fixed a problem in which clicking the View button for the Education Default List wasn't working.
* "Blocking X IPs" now uses locale-specific number-grouping - No more "Blocking 1234982309423 IPs" text! It should now use whatever thousands-separator (etc.) is expected for your locale. This means comma-separated for the US, and space- or period-separated for some other countries.
* Added some Bluetack URLs for list-add sanity-check - We were missing a few bluetack.co.uk-hosted list URL variants in our "sanity-checking" code. They should all be working now.
* Third-party Lib Updates - Some of the third-party code has been updated to a newer rev. No major changes here, should just be some minor speed/bugfix issues.
* Additional Light Cleanup - Updated the 7-zip tool we use to create "portable" .zip file versions, build- and installer-script tweaks, and some other minor code cleanup.
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