About Peer Guardian

[Vandetta]

Ok so I downloaded peer guardian to help protect me but now I have a few questions. One connection that was rejected was anit pirat gruppen. Now if they were trying to connect to me in the first place cant they already see what I was doing? and second when they were rejected with that IP cant they just try a different one? Is there any other measures I can take besides just using a program like peer guardian?

[mybackhurts]

ehhhh pee yoo , get protowall with the blocklist manager and your up for a battle, and yea they can see what your doing but i think they have to d/l something to see if it is copyrighted or not , right?

[Vandetta]

Peer Guardian isnt very good?

[hawkburn]

Nothing is 100% fool-proof or perfect. That being said, it's better than nothing, none-the-less.

Authorities must download a couple of bits from the offender as proof to charge against you. Just because your IP showed up in the list of people offering a copyrighted file, doesn't mean they can do anything.

[Herr.Wenz]

they are right, nothing is 100% effective, but if you want to add more security
use firewall with peer guardian, keep updating both programs and you should be fine.

if you want to go a bit higher you can get a hardware firewall and that will definitly make it harder for anyone to see what your doing.

here is also what you can do. If you are on some kind of network, go to network in the control panel, then right click on properties, where it says file sharing and printing resources, do uncheck. That will prevent anyone from looking on your computer through windows.

also in most p2p they have an option not to let anyone see your sharefolder or any folders on your hard drive

do note again that no program is guarantee to protect you 100% but those are ways that you can protect yourself good luck

[hawkburn]

Firewalls are mainly for the purpose of blocking un-wanted dangerous access (hackers, backdoors, trojans, call-homes, ect) and is not for access you permit. When you are on a file-sharing network, you are allowing access. Yes, denying access to your share folder is an EXCELLENT choice, but again, if they want victims that much, there's not much you can do to stop them, with the exception of the experimental MUTE and FreeNet.

[Vandetta]

Thanks for the info everyone. I've taken a look at MUTE and I really like the way its designed. Cant wait to see where they take it in a couple of months.

[Ezza6745]

Peerguardian and protowall will never be 100% secure etc but you might aswell run them even if they offer little protection its not as if they take up much rescources while running.