PeerGuardian AlternativesFirewalls and other similar apps like PeerGuardian

PeerGuardian is described as 'Privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge blocklists (thousands or millions of IP ranges). Its origin seeds in targeting aggressive IPs while you use P2P' and is a Firewall in the file sharing category. There are six alternatives to PeerGuardian for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, VirtualBox, PortableApps.com and VMware vSphere Hypervisor apps. The best PeerGuardian alternative is simplewall, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PeerGuardian are PeerBlock, BeeThink IP Blocker, CacheGuard-OS and HostsXpert.

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  1. simplewall icon
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    Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer.

    37 simplewall alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • simplewall is the most popular Windows alternative to PeerGuardian.

    • simplewall is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to PeerGuardian.

    • simplewall is Free and Open SourcePeerGuardian is also Free and Open Source
    • simplewall is Lightweight and Privacy focusedPeerGuardian is not according to our users
  2. PeerBlock icon
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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...

    5 PeerBlock alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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    BeeThink IP Blocker is a Windows IP Blocking program which controls one computer interacts with other computers over the network. It can be successfully used on Windows server machines, in a production environment, to easily ban unwanted IP addresses or visitors by country with...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • BeeThink IP Blocker is the most popular commercial alternative to PeerGuardian.

    • BeeThink IP Blocker is Paid and ProprietaryPeerGuardian is Free and Open Source
    • BeeThink IP Blocker is Privacy focusedPeerGuardian is not according to our users
  4. CacheGuard-OS icon
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    All CacheGuard products and services are focused on delivering secured and optimized Web contents to our clients. To achieve that goal we made CacheGuard OS which is our core product. Once installed on a virtual or hardware machine, CacheGuard OS turns it into a powerful Web...

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • VirtualBox
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
     
  5. HostsXpert icon
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    HostsXpert is an ultra-groovy Hosts file Manager, Editor and Helper-outter. Below you'll find a list of HostsXpert's functions. Just a Simple word of caution - Hosts files are not to be taken lightly...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. iplist icon
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    iplist is a Linux application for blocking connections to and from a specified range of hosts using the netfilter netlink-queue library. iplist is an open source IP filtering program similar to PeerGuardian .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • iplist is the most popular Linux alternative to PeerGuardian.

    • iplist is Free and Open SourcePeerGuardian is also Free and Open Source
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