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[BT] Protowall and Blocklist Manager

Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2004 7:52 pm
by Grinch
Protowall is a usefull app that would benefit those who fear DMCA complaint letters from their ISP. Basically Protowall is an IP blocker :D It blocks known naughty IP's. It runs silently in the background not taking up valuable cpu resources blocking unwanted intuders who could possibly report you to your ISP. Combine this with the Blocklist Manager and you are relatively secure. It is impossible to know the IP's of all the bad guys but the BLM updates everyday on it's own or you can manually udate the blocklist yourself. You can also enter in IP's manually if you so desire. In my honest opinion this is a much needed app for the regular BT user. This also can be combined to the Azureus Client as well.

All can be found HERE

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 8:47 am
by Rock
Is this anything like Peer Guardian at all? I used to Use Peer Gaurdian and i thought it was a decent program.

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 12:45 pm
by Grinch
Same thing but not as resource hungry.

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:01 pm
by battye
How does it update itself? How does it know the right IP's?

Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:36 pm
by Grinch
Basically, Bluetack is a solutions portal - dedicated to providing News, Security articles, Software reviews, Guides, IP Research, and the Tools needed to help us keep our connections to the net and each other secure, safe, and free from unwanted guests.

Bluetack provides the community with a free tool called ProtoWall that is designed to block unwanted users from accessing your PC. ProtoWall can hold a large list of IP addresses. PW will block anyone trying to connect to your PC from one of those addresses.

We also offer Blocklist Manager as a way to build a more customized list of IP's that you would like to block. The personal list that BLM creates can be exported to ProtoWall. We also research and maintain information about many IP addresses and ranges.

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The blocklist manager contacts the bluetack server and updates the list as necessary.