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PeerBlock

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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...

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Windows
  • PortableApps.com
PeerBlock alternatives  
Discontinued

The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, 1.2, released in January 2014, can be still downloaded from the official website.

3.7 / 5 Avg rating (3)
251likes
11comments
5alternatives
0news articles

Features

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  1.  Portable
  2.  Firewall
  3.  Outbound firewall
  4.  Peer-To-Peer
  5.  Built-in Firewall
  6.  Network Tools

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PeerBlock information

  • Developed by

    US flagPeerblock, LLC

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.7

  • Alternatives

    5 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 11 comments and reviews about PeerBlock, and it has gotten 251 likes

PeerBlock was added to AlternativeTo by Aerialsky on Aug 10, 2009 and this page was last updated Jan 30, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Tiziano
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Jul 20, 2020
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Most effective free IP blocker. If you can source or produce IP lists, Peerblock does the rest

Top Negative Comment
araragi
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Jul 1, 2013
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Literally useless placeboware. Do not think that because you have this running it'll stop you recieving letters, because it won't.

svadhisthana7
Mar 29, 2014

PeerBlock is not a placebo. Two friends of mine are professional hackers, specifically penetration testers. One works at MIT. Both say that PeerBlock does, in fact, guard against spying by companies looking for file sharing.

If you're still getting letters, that's most likely user failure. Maybe you're not using the right blacklists or have protocol obfuscation turned off. Or maybe you have a very intrusive ISP. If you have a history of getting caught sharing copyrighted files, and it seems that you do, then you may be flagged (in which case I suggest using a proxy or VPN). Don't blame a program for your mistakes.

VitaminYes
Mar 26, 2016
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This project hasn't seen any action since 2014!

stefaniacastelli
Mar 18, 2016
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.....as 98% firewall related software due to the evolution from IPW to PF internal firewall structure from 10.10 Yosemite on....

svadhisthana7
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Mar 29, 2014
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I also checked with two friends of mine who are penetration testers (professional hackers). PeerBlock works very well as a privacy measure for file sharing.

Mustachio
Mar 20, 2011
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I don't agree that this program is necessary or useful, but it is good at what it does.

klischee
Nov 3, 2010
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PeerBlock is under the GPL and zlib License, so I changed it from "free" to "open source".

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What is PeerBlock?

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.

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