New app ProtoWall....10x better than Peer Guardian

[JAWheat411]

I have been beta testing this app for a while and now it is finally released to the public.
This program only works on Win XP, 2000 or 2003.


What is ProtoWall

ProtoWall is a new IP blocking program that will Block all connections made by tcp-ip/Udp/icmp/IGMP and raw ip.
It is driver based,so it will Block the packets that are sent Before than most firewall's will ever see it.

ProtoWall was made by DUDEZ before Peerguardian was adjusted to use less ram and cpu,it was not made to hurt Peerguardian,
but to offer more protection to people that don't have the computer power the run Peerguardian.

ProtoWall is availably for windows xp,2000 and 2003 server,as with the driver that it needs to install it will not work on windows 9x or me
(sorry guys)

ProtoWall will log all connections to your machine in and out and offer the direction of the traffic,so that you can better see what is going on
while you are online,as in the log you can see the port,direction the traffic is going and the type of traffic that it is.

ProtoWall is Fully supported by The Blocklist Manager,as it will allow for import and export of the ip filter files and it will import log files
from ProtoWall to get more information from the logs

28/Jan/2004 | GUI v1.42 build 5100 / Driver v1.41 - build 5020 "Re5pec7"
-----------------------------------[FiNAL]-------------------------------------

* FIRST PUBLIC RELEASE *


- [FIX] sometimes window doesn't show/hide in taskbar when restoring
from the system tray;
- [FIX] total counters now resets correctly to zero the values and
start counting from the first packet of the session (for now you
can have a per-session statistics looked manually, in the future
there is a major update to these stats features ;
- [FIX] stopping granted packets while logging to video don't stop
immediately (it will stop, but need some time to empty queue);

download it here http://bluetack.co.uk/pw/Protowall_installer.exe


How to install the driver here http://www.bluetack.co.uk/pwhelp/in...ml?overview.htm
Be sure to download the Block list manager (link installed as shortcut in start menu) You can use it to keep your ip block list up to date.

[lordpake]

This sounds interesting to me as I am greatly annoyed by the huge cpu usage of PG...

[method]

Ah well...

There's this anyway...

RE: CPU usage on PeerGuardian...


Good news on the PeerGuardian front.

v1.99 pr13-6-expver has finally solved the CPU/resources problem for most people and uses less RAM than recent releases. (The CPU issues have effected EVERY previous release of PeerGuardian.. should be different this time!!)

You can download it from:

http://methlabs.org/methlabs.htm

Please let me know how you get on with it, it should be a MAJOR improvement over past releases.

And yup, I'm working on a UDP version for XP+ too.

Thanks. :)

[FrYGuY]

I found out about Protowall a little while ago...

Unlike PeerGuardian, it works on the driver level, meaning it's pretty efficient and blocks ALL forms of internet traffic, whether it be TCP, UDP, ICMP, RawSockets, whatever.

At the very least, it's good to see a little competition ;)