Peer Guardian

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:21 pm

I've been using this recently in an effort to guard my privacy a bit.

Any one else tried it?

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:42 pm

Peer Guardian can't do anything you can do yourself to protect your privacy.

Beyond that it looks like a half-descent firewall.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:49 am

It's pretty good, I wish there was a Linux version though.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:28 am

sup AOL!

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:39 am

not much, watchin south park

YOU JUST GOT SERVED!

you?

Oskar_Hanberg · Post by **Oskar_Hanberg** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:13 am

I've been using peer guardian for years now. It works very well, with a few exceptions. Because sometimes someone might report an ip-address that shouldn't be reported. but all in all its a great tool for protecting your privacy.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:49 pm

Oskar_Hanberg wrote:I've been using peer guardian for years now. It works very well, with a few exceptions. Because sometimes someone might report an ip-address that shouldn't be reported. but all in all its a great tool for protecting your privacy.

its not protecting you from this server, Peer Guardian's area of protection is rather limited.

Oskar_Hanberg · Post by **Oskar_Hanberg** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:21 pm

funkyass wrote:
Oskar_Hanberg wrote:I've been using peer guardian for years now. It works very well, with a few exceptions. Because sometimes someone might report an ip-address that shouldn't be reported. but all in all its a great tool for protecting your privacy.
its not protecting you from this server, Peer Guardian's area of protection is rather limited.

wtf...?

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:59 pm

im pretty sure any of the mods can pull up your IP.

you might want to actually read up on what Peer Guardian actually does.

alexz721 · Post by **alexz721** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 8:11 am

It's mostly for p2p. Clearly, the ZSNES board isn't an IP that's going to be prosecuting the average filesharer.

Oskar_Hanberg · Post by **Oskar_Hanberg** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:25 pm

What has this server to do with pg?.. I don't get it at all.. and why would I need "protection" from this server?

Post by **odditude** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:47 pm

Well, it seems to me that PG has done nothing to mask your IP address from the server, hence the comment about you "not being protected from the server." If it can't even mask your IP on phpBB, it's probably not very good at it in general.

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Oskar_Hanberg · Post by **Oskar_Hanberg** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:30 pm

Where did I suggest that PG hides ip's? and if it does it would only hide your IP from listed servers.. and I doubt that the Zsnes server adress ever did anything to harass people who chose to acquire their software in alternative ways. Anyway, from what I can understand it just blocks incoming requests from certain servers. Though it sometime blocks the wrong thing. Like eletcronic arts gaming server and gamespy.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:01 am

Yeah it blocks requests from certain IP's

Que · Post by **Que** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:02 am

adventure_of_link wrote:Yeah it blocks requests from certain IP's

postwhore

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:02 am

Hey at least I'm contributing to the thread here

instead of your useless one-word post of calling me a postwhore

Que · Post by **Que** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:26 am

adventure_of_link wrote:Hey at least I'm contributing to the thread here

instead of your useless one-word post of calling me a postwhore

You have a point. Although.....firewalls are for teh n00b.

Oskar_Hanberg · Post by **Oskar_Hanberg** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:54 am

Que wrote:
adventure_of_link wrote:Hey at least I'm contributing to the thread here

instead of your useless one-word post of calling me a postwhore
You have a point. Although.....firewalls are for teh n00b.

says a person who claims IE is a decent browser... nuff said.

Que · Post by **Que** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 8:36 am

Oskar_Hanberg wrote:
Que wrote:
adventure_of_link wrote:Hey at least I'm contributing to the thread here

instead of your useless one-word post of calling me a postwhore
You have a point. Although.....firewalls are for teh n00b.
says a person who claims IE is a decent browser... nuff said.

Backup your false claims of my IE fanboism! I have never said that IE is a "decent" browser. IE is a horrible browser, and I never use it, nor recommend it.

lockharte · Post by **lockharte** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:07 am

i like IE

Oskar_Hanberg · Post by **Oskar_Hanberg** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:29 am

Que wrote:
Oskar_Hanberg wrote:
Que wrote:
adventure_of_link wrote:Hey at least I'm contributing to the thread here

instead of your useless one-word post of calling me a postwhore
You have a point. Although.....firewalls are for teh n00b.
says a person who claims IE is a decent browser... nuff said.
Backup your false claims of my IE fanboism! I have never said that IE is a "decent" browser. IE is a horrible browser, and I never use it, nor recommend it.

I apologize. I was obviously mixing things up.

Que · Post by **Que** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 9:57 am

lockharte wrote:i like IE

die

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:59 pm

PG seems to block a lot of things (like schools) but will it keep me safe while I do my necessary bittorrenting?

Oskar_Hanberg · Post by **Oskar_Hanberg** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:22 pm

DarkBenny wrote:PG seems to block a lot of things (like schools) but will it keep me safe while I do my necessary bittorrenting?

It will. also, I preffer that it blocks too much rather than too little. So I don't mind having to unblock some addresses now and then as long as I can aquire culture in my way of choice without being watched and harassed for it.