Peer Guardian

[olds]

How does Peer Guardian work at keeping your ISP from seeing where you browse? Do you just run it separately as you are browsing or does it somehow need to be run through a browser, like a proxy?
Directions don't seem too clear.
TIA

 

[masteryoda34]

Its not a proxy. It just blocks IP addresses of groups that are know to track usage. RIAA, MPAA, MediaDefender, etc. It doesn't prevent your ISP from seeing anything.

 

[sswingle]

Actually, it does block ISPs as well. I frequently see Time Warner Telecom on my blocklist.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: sswingle
Actually, it does block ISPs as well. I frequently see Time Warner Telecom on my blocklist.

Well, it blocks they tools they use to remotely scan you (for example to see if your running a web server etc). However, it in no way keeps your isp from seeing what connections you setup and data you send/receive.

 

[masteryoda34]

Originally posted by: bsobel
Well, it blocks they tools they use to remotely scan you (for example to see if your running a web server etc). However, it in no way keeps your isp from seeing what connections you setup and data you send/receive.

^ Yeah, thats what I meant. Should have been more specific.

 

[Mide]

It's still a great program that I use all the time.

 

[masteryoda34]

On another note, Does anyone know if there is a version out that works with Vista yet?

 

[Shooks]

Originally posted by: masteryoda34
On another note, Does anyone know if there is a version out that works with Vista yet?

http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/showthread.php?t=14168

I'm using it on Vista64 , I have to F8 every boot to disable driver enforcement but it works

 

[0roo0roo]

no updates on the blocklist for quite some time now..
but media sentrys been cut loose i guess

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: Shooks

Originally posted by: masteryoda34
On another note, Does anyone know if there is a version out that works with Vista yet?

http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/showthread.php?t=14168

I'm using it on Vista64 , I have to F8 every boot to disable driver enforcement but it works

I've decided to drop Peer Guardian for this reason. Apparently they don't want to pay to get their drivers signed. I don't blame them but I don't want to hack around that much.

With regards to the OP, it seemed to work.

 

[masteryoda34]

Can't you disable signature enforcement? That page suggests running "bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS" at command prompt. (64bit users only).

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: masteryoda34
Can't you disable signature enforcement? That page suggests running "bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS" at command prompt. (64bit users only).

AFAIK, that workaround was disabled in SP1.

 

[masteryoda34]

Yeah I looked into it and tried it out and it doesn't seem to work with the latest windows updates (eg SP1).

 

[Shooks]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
no updates on the blocklist for quite some time now..
but media sentrys been cut loose i guess

Yeah, I use the lists from http://iblocklist.com/lists.php

 

[Tullphan]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: sswingle
Actually, it does block ISPs as well. I frequently see Time Warner Telecom on my blocklist.

Well, it blocks they tools they use to remotely scan you (for example to see if your running a web server etc). However, it in no way keeps your isp from seeing what connections you setup and data you send/receive.

I'm running NIS 2009. Will it work similarly to Peer Guardian?
I recently installed Peer Guardian to use in conjunction w/uTorrent, but now i'm getting a "listen error" where I wasn't before. Should I be concerned about this?