The Blocklist Manager is an application that downloads blacklists from various sources, processes for duplicates and merges based on rules, converts to a new format, and exports them to applications such as:
- Protowall
- PeerGuardian
- Outpost Blockpost
- Sygate
- ZoneAlarm
- Safepeer
- Abyss
- Morpheus/Gnucleus
- Kazaa Lite K++
- eMule
- And many other popular P2P applications & firewalls
It is a Swiss army knife of network security tools:
- IP Range Calculator
- The WHOIS Project
- Angry IP Scanner
- IP Config Status
- SmartWhois Integration
- Hosts file Manager Integration
- Port Monitor
- AnalogX Simple Server and NetView
- Local Hostname and IP address
- Netmask List
- Personal Inclusion and Exclusion of ranges
- Scheduled download of sources
- Source selection for more control over what is blocked
- and more to come…
The Blocklist Manager can simplify and automate many tasks for you. The Blocklist Manager can be set up to download, merge and export a list for you. It also includes a built in converter that allows you to convert to and from various formats. Some of these formats are listed below:
- CIDR Import and Export
- Protowall
- PeerGuardian
- Outpost Version 1 and 2
- IP Chains
- Bearshare
- ZoneAlarm
- Sygate
- Generic IP
- Snort
- And many more
The Blocklist Manager has the ability to import from custom sources also. Along with this, it has a built in Inclusions/Exclusions manager. With these, you can define custom IP’s and ranges to be included or excluded from the list. This can be useful if there is a web site that is blocked and you want it unblocked you can just add the IP address of the website to the Exclusions manager.
It also includes the Whois Project that allows a user to lookup IP addresses. The Whois Project was made by The Faimous One and Seraphielx to stop the confusion of having to know which IP addresses are listed on which whois servers. It will select the proper server and look up the IP for you. This project is still being expanded to make use of RWhois servers. Stay tuned for more on that.
I think its pretty easy to use, if you think that you need a better list than the default peerguardian list, this is the way to go.
You can download it from here
The way I use it was this, after you install it and start it up, you will be presentend with something like this
Then you will need to go to Tools, Options and then enabled the sources that you will like to retrieve to be in your list
Then just go the the main window and click in the process button, you will have to wait for it to fetch all the lists, but after that it should look like this
Then just export the list and Add it to Peerguardian, after you add the list to peer guardian it should look like this.
Do this regularly and you would not have to worry about your privacy anymore.
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