PeerBlock
Sign in to savePeerBlock is a free and open-source personal firewall that blocks packets coming from, or going to, a maintained list of blacklisted hosts. PeerBlock is the Windows successor to the software PeerGuardian (which is currently maintained only for Linux). It blocks incoming and outgoing connections to IP addresses that are included on blacklists (made available on the Internet), and to addresses specified by the user. PeerBlock mainly uses blacklists provided by iblocklist.com.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- firewall
- Country
- United States
- Country of origin
- United States
- Based on
- PeerGuardian
- Official website
- www.peerblock.com
- Image
- PeerBlock-1.0-(r181).png
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- operating system
- Windows XP
- software version identifier
- 1.2
- programmed in
- C++
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License
- product or material produced
- software
- Commons category
- PeerBlock
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PeerBlock is a free and open-source personal firewall that blocks packets coming from, or going to, a maintained list of blacklisted hosts. PeerBlock is the Windows successor to the software PeerGuardian (which is currently maintained only for Linux). It blocks incoming and outgoing connections to IP addresses that are included on blacklists (made available on the Internet), and to addresses specified by the user. PeerBlock mainly uses blacklists provided by iblocklist.com.
== Development == PeerBlock 1.0 is based on the same code as PeerGuardian 2 RC1 Test3 Vista version. It adds support for 32- and 64-bit Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. When the PeerGuardian project ended, its developer Phoenix Labs encouraged current PeerGuardian users to migrate to PeerBlock.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “PeerBlock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.