Error Contacting Url Peerguardian 2009
September 16, 2008 in Security - Last Update:December 16, 2012 6PeerGuardian is an IP (Internet Protocol) blocker for Windows which is highly popular in the file sharing community but also with security and privacy interested users. The software works by providing access to lists that contain IPs and IP ranges that are coming from organizations, companies, websites and individuals that invade the user's privacy, serve ads or malicious contents.The main application of PeerGuardian is blocking P2P traffic from sources that are known to invade the users privacy by logging the actions on P2P networks.A user trying to update the lists or download the lists initially after downloading PeerGuardian might encounter the message "Error Contacting URL" which means that there was a connection problem between the user's computer and the list. This is usually happening for the official lists hosted at Sourceforge.The easiest way to overcome that error message is to find another source for that list and use that instead. PeerGuardian already provides access to the same list in the form of the level1 list on the Bluetack server. A selection of that should have the desired result.Another option is to get the lists at the i-Blocklist website which mirrors them and provides access to several new lists that are not listed in the default PeerGuardian client.Error Contacting URL can be a temporary error but if it is appearing continuously a user should think about switching to the alternative lists.Update: Peer Guardian has been discontinued. The alternative is Peer Block which offers similar capabilities. The program has not been updated in a while. The latest stable release of the program dates back to 2010. Back in 2011 an announcement was made that a new version is underway, but that has been over a year ago. The program appears to be working fine for the most part though.Update 2: Peer Block is not available anymore as well. Please share this article About Martin Brinkmann Martin Brinkmann is a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. He is passionate about all things tech and knows the Internet and computers like the back of his hand.You can follo
PeerGuardian - a privacy oriented firewall application Brought to you by: bbergstrand, jre-phoenix, phrostbyte Summary Files Reviews Support News Wiki Mailing Lists Tickets ▾ Bugs Patches Feature Requests Support Requests Discussion Git ▾ Code PeerGuardian OSX Code Svn Cvs Create Ticket View Stats Group PeerGuardian_Linux PeerGuardian_OSX PeerGuardian_Windows v1.0_(example) Searches Changes Closed Tickets Open Tickets Help Formatting Help #30 Error Contacting URL .... Status: closed Owner: nobody http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/16/peerguardian-error-contacting-url/ Labels: None Priority: 5 Updated: 2012-11-11 Created: 2009-09-17 Creator: Anonymous Private: No Have been getting this on these 2 for over a week now. http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net/lists/ads.php http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net/lists/spy.php Discussion Nobody/Anonymous - 2009-09-26 I had the same issue for weeks. Am now able to get all lists except EDU. I also notice https://sourceforge.net/p/peerguardian/support-requests/30/ that ALL of the trackers are OPEN. Has this project been closed or compromised? If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link: jre-phoenix - 2010-04-07 Support for PeerGuardian is available at the phoenixlabs forum (http://forums.phoenixlabs.org/) and at #phoenixlabs at irc.freenode.net. If this report relates to the PeerGuardian Windows application, you may try Peerblock instead: http://www.peerblock.com. If this report relates to an IP that is blocked or not blocked: The blocklists are maintained by http://www.bluetack.co.uk and http://tbg.iblocklist.com. If this report is about failed blocklist downloads. Check out http://iblocklist.com, this site offers reliable downloads of all blocklists. If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link: SourceForge About Site Status @sfnet_ops Powered by Apache Allura™ Find and Develop Software Create a Project
- a privacy oriented firewall application Brought to you by: bbergstrand, jre-phoenix, phrostbyte Summary Files Reviews Support News Wiki Mailing Lists Tickets ▾ Bugs Patches Feature Requests Support Requests Discussion Git ▾ Code PeerGuardian OSX Code Svn Cvs Create Topic Stats Graph Forums Open Discussion https://sourceforge.net/p/peerguardian/discussion/446997/thread/00b8edee/ 40 Help 39 Help Formatting Help Peerguardian2 list update failure Forum: Help Creator: WhoMe Created: 2008-04-08 Updated: 2012-11-11 WhoMe - 2008-04-08 Today is April 8th 2008 Hi, Each time I try to download p2p list for Peerguardian 2 http://peerguardianfans.blogspot.com/2008/04/no-blocklists-or-blocking-0-ips.html I get " 0 files " :( I've installed, uninstalled Peerguardian 2 at least a dozen times nothing seems to work. My OS is Win 2000 pro. Anyone knows why this is happening? Are the lists down forever? error contacting If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link: David Skinner II - 2009-03-05 I'm getting an error contacting URL on ADs Spyware and P2P. Is anyone else getting this? If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link: P Vac - 2008-04-09 I have seen this problem since yesterday. I did not go error contacting url so far as to delete and reload the application multiple times. I did it once and then checked this formum. One thing to not, I tried to add other lists and still the same problem. Has anyone got any suggestions as to a resolution? If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link: Anonymous - 2008-05-15 I get the same error If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link: Tec 186 - 2008-09-15 Click "List Manager" Select the Sourceforge address Click "edit" Replace it with this address: http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.zip Enjoy!!!! If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link: Robert Williams - 2009-02-16 This solved my problem, too. Thanks! If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link: SourceForge About Site Status @sfnet_ops Powered by Apache Allura™ Find and Develop Software Create a Project Software Directory Top Downloaded Projects Community Blog @sourceforge Resources Help Site Documentation Support Request © 2016 Slashdot Media. All Rights Reserved. Terms Privacy Opt Out Choices Advertise Get latest updates about Open Source Projects, Conferences and News. Sign up for the SourceForge newsletter: I agree to receive
editing, automatic updates, and blocking all of IPv4 (TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc), making it the safest and easiest way to protect your privacy on P2P. This Blog is dedicated to all the Fans of this Darling Software. Please note: We are not related to Phoenixlabs in any way. Tuesday, April 8, 2008 No Blocklists or Blocking 0 IPs Recently when I was surfing through the forum of PhoenixLabs, I found several users were panicked by a strange problem. According to them, PeerGuardian2 was not blocking even a single IP and all the lists were empty too. At first i thought it was a standalone case but then i found that the numbers of posts were increasing exponentially. Well if your PeerGuardian is also having the same problem and you haven't found a solution till now then you could do the following:1. Run your PeerGuardian.2. Click on "List Manager".3. When the List Manager pops up click on "Add" Button (Look at the bottom).4. Click on "Add URL" radio button and from the Drop down List select http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz5. In Description field type BluetackLev1 (it can be anything).6. Before clicking OK make sure that the Block button is selected.Repeat Steps 2 -6 and add the following Lists. Give a new Description each time. http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level2.gz http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/proxy.gzNow it will Block near about 1095048929 IPs.Well friends, this steps will increase your safety to a good extent. Posted by LocalHost at 4:13 AM 23 comments: Anonymous said... Can you explain what's the difference between the three lists you're telling I should suscribe?ThxAlex April 8, 2008 at 9:09 AM Anonymous said... By the way, keep up the good work.This site is already in my favourites, keep us updated.Thx, Alex April 8, 2008 at 9:11 AM LocalHost said... Thanx Alex.Level 1 -> Basic BlocklistLevel 2 -> Corporate RangesIts better to add both the files. This will give you a greater security. April 8, 2008 at 10:33 AM Anonymous said... thanks, something is wrong with the "official" update URIs (they keep returning 32b 7z files without an