PeerGuardian Alternatives

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 five alternatives to PeerGuardian for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, VirtualBox, VMware vSphere Hypervisor and Microsoft Hyper-V Server. The best alternative is simplewall, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like PeerGuardian are CacheGuard-OS, BeeThink IP Blocker, HostsXpert and iplist.

PeerGuardian alternatives are mainly Firewalls but may also be Network Monitors or Anti-Malware Apps. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of PeerGuardian.

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PeerGuardian

Free • Open Source
Firewall

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PeerGuardian is a privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge...

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simplewall
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Network Monitor
Windows
27 alternatives to simplewall
Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) which can configure network activity on your computer.
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simplewall Features
1. Lightweightsimplewall consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
2. Privacy focusedsimplewall is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
3. Ad-freesimplewall doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
4. Portablesimplewall can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Built-in Firewall
Outbound firewall
Built-in timer
CacheGuard-OS
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Anti-Malware App
Windows
VirtualBox
VMware vSphere Hypervisor
Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Proxmox Virtual Environment
134 alternatives to CacheGuard-OS
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...

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BeeThink IP Blocker
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Paid • Proprietary
Firewall
Windows
9 alternatives to BeeThink IP Blocker
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...

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HostsXpert
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
11 alternatives to HostsXpert
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 -
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HostsXpert Features
1. PortableHostsXpert can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 4.4, released in September 2011, can be still downloaded from MajorGeeks
iplist
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Free • Open Source
Firewall
Linux
5 alternatives to iplist
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 .
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Peer-To-Peer
Discontinued
The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.29, released in October 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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simplewall

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CacheGuard-OS

BeeThink IP Blocker

HostsXpert

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iplist

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