Great free anti-hacker program, PeerGuardian 2
(Peer Guardian 2 running, with I.P. addresses blocked out to mask my own I.P.)
Amazing program. I’m running it and it’s blocking about 10 attempts a minute to get into my network, from everyone from the office of the president of Lithuania, to cops in China to the Sony corporation in Los Angeles. It blocks unwanted traffic, both incoming and outgoing.
Download PeerGuardian 2 free, here.
By the way, China is posing massive attacks on US servers this week…no one’s sure if it’s the gov or hackers there. Pentagon has shut off some of their own computers, though. So it must be a serious deal.
Though judging from the number of Chinese Government sites showing up in my logs (images above), I really must assume some of it is Chinese Government computers turned into zombies by hackers to attack many other computers anonymously. I really can’t imagine that so many people in the Chinese gov would really be that concerned with what I’m doing on StinkFight, etc….
My router has a built-in firewall, and I’m running Norton firewall too. The traffic being stopped by Peer Guardian is getting past BOTH of those firewalls.
EVERYONE should have this program.
(Note, occasionally it will block a site you want to see. You can simply right click on the name/i.p. in the protection log window, and allow it for fifteen minutes, or for an hour, or permanently.)
MWD
March 25th, 2008 at 5:09 am
I’ve been running Peer Guardian along with Tor for about a year now. I have noticed a slight slowdown in bandwidth but I feel it’s worth it. Peer Guardian stops the baddies from getting while Tor gives you anonymity. Both of these progs and Skype for telephony or file transfers and you are practically invisible. Unless you want to be by publishing a blog or website.
March 25th, 2008 at 5:13 am
Oh, one more thing. Just for fun I opened my Tor network map (I usually leave it minimized) and see that I am now surfing from Brazil. If I hit refresh I am in Spain.
Protect yourself!
March 25th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Tor slows you down a little, but I can see the value.
Peer Guardian doesn’t slow you down. It actually feels to me like it speeds surfing up a bit, by blocking all the crap that goes on in the background with all those corporations and governments and hackers at your backdoor…sniffing your butt like dogs.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Since this thread started this morning I started looking at my logs. I’ve got several attempts from Church of Scientology International. Check your logs to see if you have similar. I have not noticed any coming from China,,, yet.
I don’t mind having Tor slowing me down a bit as I have a screaming pipe to begin with. I agree that Peer Guardian does speed things up. I think the two together even the speed. I don’t really care either way as when I click on something it is on my desktop instantly, practically. Unless it is a big obscure movie and there aren’t many seeders.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Ive used TOR for a couple years. It does slow things down a bit so I tend to use it only when I really feel I need to be anonymous. I find it works well with web based email such as Yahoo. It makes the email virtually untraceable back to your IP.