Bug 11894

Summary: Peer Guardian. PeerGuardian is a privacy oriented firewall application.
Product: Mageia Reporter: ÎιÏÏÎ³Î¿Ï ÎÏÏÏÏÏοÏÎ»Î¿Ï <giorgosk67>
Component: New RPM package requestAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal CC: doktor5000
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/peerguardian/
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Description ÎιÏÏÎ³Î¿Ï ÎÏÏÏÏÏοÏÎ»Î¿Ï 2013-12-06 08:27:38 CET 
PeerGuardian is a privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge blocklists (thousands or millions of IP ranges). Its origin seeds in targeting aggressive IPs while you use P2P.

At my opinion, this is a must have for P2P users.
It's a pity, that is only available for Debian based systems (while there are similar products, Windows only).

Please don't take it wrong, but at this moment (with the exception of Debian based systems), P2P is safer at Windows (a closed, unsafe, gaming targeted platform), rather than Linux that is open and targeted to security.

PS. Activating the torrent client blocklists is an inferior alternative, because it's an application layer solution (that can be bypassed), while activating Peer Guardian is a firewall - OS level based one.

I consider this addition, of a huge importance one.
Otherwise, Mageia is from the best available distributions for everyday's tasks.
Good luck and keep up the good work!
Giorgos. :-)


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Comment 1 Florian Hubold 2013-12-06 11:37:41 CET 
Marking as duplicate of existing request from same user.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8502 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => doktor5000
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE