Peer guardian?

Phate · 24 Sep 2006 at 12:19

People of oh great OcUk.

Me and a friend of mine are having a discussion.

He uses peer guardian because he's paranoid. Now I've read from various places that peer guardian is aload of crap that doesn't really do anything and just uses up system rescources.

So does it actually do anything worth while?

Many Thanks

postmanfw · 24 Sep 2006 at 12:56

Yes it blocks unwanted ip addresses conecting to you when file sharing. Only as good as the list its using and uses very little resoures. Its also free!!!

Steve09 · 24 Sep 2006 at 13:17

The whole point of File sharing is uploading aswell as downloading.
When your done, simply take them out of the downloads folder so you are not uploading them anymore

NathanE · 24 Sep 2006 at 13:28

postmanfw said:
Yes it blocks unwanted ip addresses conecting to you when file sharing. Only as good as the list its using and uses very little resoures. Its also free!!!

I've looked at the source code in the past and it actually uses a lot of resources due to the badly designed way it analyses every single packet - when it only needs analyse a small fraction of packets. This means it wastes CPU time needlessly. Obviously you can't see what its resource usage is in real terms because it is a kernel driver. Task Manager only shows what its GUI program is using and that will of course be pretty much zero all of the time...

bledd · 24 Sep 2006 at 14:18

the newer pg2 uses far less resources than its older version

turn off logging of allowed connections and it'll reduce the usage a bit more again

postmanfw · 24 Sep 2006 at 14:22

Are you meaning peerguardian or peerguardian2? The first was bad and cpu was running at 90% most the time.

Uploading to others yes....uploading to people who can do you for it no!!!
It lets u restrict those you upload to. Most membership sites run their own ip blocker anyway to keep "them" out. Dont like it then just dont use it!!!

Vai · 24 Sep 2006 at 14:45

I have also heard that it is not much use (for Bittorrent), and would agree. Peerguardian may block certain IP's connecting to your computer, but it wouldn't stop them connecting to the tracker, and if they can connect to the tracker they can see your IP connected to it aswell.

Hxc · 24 Sep 2006 at 15:07

Vai said:
I have also heard that it is not much use (for Bittorrent), and would agree. Peerguardian may block certain IP's connecting to your computer, but it wouldn't stop them connecting to the tracker, and if they can connect to the tracker they can see your IP connected to it aswell.

Although without actully connecting to you and downloading from you, they can't prove that you are actully downloading anything slightly dodgy

postmanfw · 24 Sep 2006 at 16:45

They couldnt connect to tracker if site is blocking them though. Just use membership only sites....only way to get max speeds

Tony Williams · 24 Sep 2006 at 18:24

When I used PeerGuaridan 2 BitComet, DC, etc worked normally, looking on the IP list I saw a lot of IPs being blocked from SONY, etc it's a good tool if you want to protect your privacy online. I stopped using it though as it conflicted with Steam games and IRC.