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This format also is used in eMule, in the SafePeer Vuze plugin, ProtoWall, KTorrent, and Transmission. Unfortunately this meant that lists became very large and cost a lot of bandwidth to distribute, heralding the construction of the smaller binary formats. The original format for PeerGuardian version 1.x was a simple plaintext format. The recent adoption of this format made it the least compatible one. This format uses 7z compression for additional size reduction.
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As with most other desktop firewall software for Windows, Version 2.0 is installed as a kernel-level filter in Windows 2000 and later, giving the application direct access to the Windows networking stack and improving performance. Speed and resource inefficiencies were fixed by re-designing and re-coding Version 2.0 in C++ to consume less processing power and memory.
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The installation procedure was also simplified, no longer requiring a system restart and driver installation. Version 2 enabled support for more protocols (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc.), multiple block lists, and automatic updates. The development of version 2.0 was led by Cory Nelson, and aimed to resolve many of the shortcomings of Version 1.

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The original version was released for free and the source code was made available under an open source license.ĭue to Version 1.0 only blocking TCP ports then shifted to .uk where Protowall, The blocklist Manager, B.I.M.S and the Hosts Manager were developed.Īfter 7 months of development, in February 2005 Version 2 of PeerGuardian was released as a beta. By December 2003, it had been downloaded 1 million times. The original PeerGuardian (1.0) was programmed in Visual Basic and quickly became popular among P2P users despite blocking only the common TCP protocol and being known for high RAM and CPU usage when connected to P2P networks. The first public version was released in 2003, at a time when the music industry started to sue individual file sharing users (a change from its previous stance that it would not target consumers with copyright infringement lawsuits). The Windows version of this program has been discontinued in favor of other applications (Phoenix Labs encourage current PeerGuardian users to migrate to PeerBlock which is based on PeerGuardian 2 ).ĭevelopment on PeerGuardian started in late 2002, led by programmer Tim Leonard. The system is also capable of blocking custom ranges, depending upon user preferences.
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The aim of its use was to block peers on the same torrent download from any visibility of your own peer connection using IP lists. It is capable of blocking incoming and outgoing connections based on IP blacklists. PeerGuardian is a free and open source program developed by Phoenix Labs (software).
