PeerBlock Guide [Updated 3-25-2014]

Posted 13 years ago · Author

This guide is here to inform you how to set up PeerBlock to stop your computer from connecting to places you don't want it to.

What Is PeerBlock?
PeerBlock is a program that lets you control who your computer "talks to" on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of "known bad" computers, you can block communication with the following:

-Advertisement servers
-Spyware oriented servers
-Computers monitoring your p2p activities
-Computers which have been "h4c|<7d"
-Even entire countries!

They can't get in to your computer, and your computer won't try to send them anything either.

Where Do I Get PeerBlock?
Official website: http://www.peerblock.com/
Download link: http://forums.peerblock.com/read.php?3,17160

How Can I Add Lists To Peer Block?
You can get lists from websites such as http://www.iblocklist.com/lists.php. Just get the link to a list you want and add it to your list manager by clicking "List Manager", clicking "Add", pasting in the url of the list and clicking ok after typing in a description.

How Do I Make My Own Lists & Add Them To PeerBlock?
There is a complete guide at http://www.peerblock.com/userguide/how_to_use/htu-creatinglists that will show you step by step how to do it. It's very easy.

Other Notes:
Most of you here will probably find this program more trouble then it's worth to use because it tends to block a lot of the normal websites/programs you visit/use because a lot of websites/programs have multiple connections from all over the place associated with them (ad servers, partners, security measures etc..). You CAN allow any ip you want directly from the PeerBlock Log either for 15mins, 1 hour or permanently. However, I advise against allowing permanently unless you really know what you are unblocking and what you're doing. I also suggest you read up on the way the internet works and how a lot of websites operate now. If you think you are safe when browsing the web, then you have no idea how much data is being collected about you without you even knowing or how many scripts are being run with the potential to do anything to your web browser/computer or how many different websites are connecting to you from just visiting 1 website. This includes social networking sites, messenger clients, game clients and even your email host. I run this program in conjunction with 3 Firefox add-ons and a real time Anti-Virus and I will never look back.

Imvu Relation
Now, me personally, I use this program to block connections to advertisement servers as well any anti-p2p/copyright protection agencies. However, this could possibly become a valuable tool in keeping our Imvu accounts safe from account linkage by Imvu and Bluecava.

If you don't know what Bluecava is, in simplest terms, it is a company that creates device fingerprints based on IP addresses, Flash cookies, HTML5 Local Storage and possibly others means. Imvu uses them to link accounts together so it knows which ones to ban if you break the TOS. I don't guarantee this will be full proof so don't install this and think you can do whatever you want on Imvu without consequences.

I am currently working on making a PeerBlock list of every ip I can find tied to bluecava in some way or another, I will upload that when I have it decently finished.

Ips I've collected so far:
lookup.bluecava.com - 93.184.216.119
bluecava.com - 184.106.94.211
bluecava.tv/bluecava.net - 216.21.239.197
register.com - 216.21.239.101

Domain info:
Bluecava.org is a domain controlled by four name servers at register.com. All four of them are on different IP networks. The primary name server is dns028.a.register.com. bluecava.org has one IP number (216.21.239.197) , but the reverse is futuresite.register.com.

Bluecava.net is a domain controlled by four name servers at register.com. All four of them are on different IP networks. The primary name server is dns026.a.register.com. bluecava.net has one IP number (216.21.239.197) , but the reverse is futuresite.register.com.

Bluecava.com is a domain controlled by six name servers at ultradns.info, ultradns.net, ultradns.org and ultradns.co.uk. Having a total of eight IP numbers. Two of them are on the same IP network. Incoming mail for bluecava.com is handled by two mail servers at emailsrvr.com. Both are on different IP networks. bluecava.com has one IP number (184.106.94.211) , but the reverse is 184-106-94-211.static.cloud-ips.com.

Posted 13 years ago

This looks allot like a program I use to use called peerguardian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerGuardian

Posted 13 years ago · Author

Don Von Free Credits wrote:
This looks allot like a program I use to use called peerguardian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerGuardian

It pretty much is a successor to PeerGuardian.

Quote from that article:
"Phoenix Labs encourage current PeerGuardian users to migrate to PeerBlock which is based on PeerGuardian 2"

Posted 13 years ago

Awesome. Thanks DM!
I have been without a mass ip blocker ever since peerguardian went down the tube.

~downloads and installs peerblock~

Posted 13 years ago · Author

Yeah, I love using it. I've blocked a lot of connections to a lot of things I never would have guessed I was connecting to.

Posted 12 years ago

Want a even faster way...

Without the need of a 3rd party software? C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts <-- Open that in notepad

This is my Host file on my windows machine...

Code

# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
#   127.0.0.1       localhost
#   ::1             localhost

127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com

^Any values you add just make them 127.0.0.1 <-- And there now blocked

Edit:

To get the IPs just use Windows Vista & 7 built in Network tools in task manager

Posted 10 years ago

What should Mac OS X user do for that instead?

Posted 10 years ago · Author

Ťṓƴᶎ wrote:

Want a even faster way...

Without the need of a 3rd party software? C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts <-- Open that in notepad

This is my Host file on my windows machine...

Code

# Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
#   127.0.0.1       localhost
#   ::1             localhost

127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com

^Any values you add just make them 127.0.0.1 <-- And there now blocked

Edit:

To get the IPs just use Windows Vista & 7 built in Network tools in task manager

Yes, you can do that too...We're not all as dumb as you think we are.

This thread is for Peerblock, not general blocking techniques. You know, we offer more than 1 way of doing things to our users.

Anyway, using the hosts file requires you constantly update that file manually where as Peerblock will not only auto update the lists for you but give you a nice gui if you feel like seeing what's being blocked and when.

Also, I am sure we have a thread on the hosts file somewhere.

-- Wed Oct 01, 2014 3:49 pm --

Alexander70 wrote:
What should Mac OS X user do for that instead?

Here's some alternatives for a Mac user:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/peergua ... %20OS%20X/
http://www.hanynet.com/waterroof/
http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
http://www.hanynet.com/icefloor/index.html

I don't have a mac so I haven't tried any of these therefore I can't offer any help or advice on them.

Posted 8 years ago

dm i get error contacting url on some of the domaines you posted above for imvu and 2 of them downloading
am i doing something wrong?

Posted 8 years ago · Author

adryan87 wrote:
dm i get error contacting url on some of the domaines you posted above for imvu and 2 of them downloadingam i doing something wrong?

I don't know, I just tested them and they all work fine. Perhaps it's just a hickup with your connection.

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