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, Self-Hosted and PortableApps.com 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 Gateway 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

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    • 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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
     
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  3. 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...

    10 BeeThink IP Blocker alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • 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 Gateway is a free and open-source Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution, a Web Application Firewall (WAF), and a Quality of Service (QoS) platform designed to optimize WAN traffic. To obtain a CacheGuard Gateway appliance, download CacheGuard-OS and install it on...

    135 CacheGuard Gateway alternatives

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    • VirtualBox
    • Self-Hosted
    • VMware vSphere Hypervisor
    • Microsoft Hyper-V Server
    • Proxmox Virtual Environment
     
    • CacheGuard Gateway is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to PeerGuardian.

    • CacheGuard Gateway is Free and Open SourcePeerGuardian is also Free and Open Source
    • CacheGuard Gateway is Privacy focused and LightweightPeerGuardian is not according to our users
  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

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • 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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