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B.I.S.S. is a community dedicated to improving the safety and awareness of all our members and guests. We provide Free Software, IP Research, News, Security articles, Software Reviews, Technical Support and Guides in an effort to help us keep our connections to the net and each other, safe, secure, and free from unwelcome intruders.

BISS has a globally diverse membership, our efforts and research are based on the forums - the meeting place for all to discuss topics that relate to internet security, privacy, and protection while accessing the rapidly changing technological landscape.

To utilise our regularly updated IP Block list research we provide the following freeware security software :

  • Blocklist Manager - The BLM allows users to download our IP blocklists directly , then convert and export those lists to various formats for use in a large number of network security and P2P applications which support IP filtering. BLM also provides a wide range of IP address / network tools.


  • Protowall - A light weight NDIS IP filter designed to run independently alongside a personal firewall for the sole purpose of blocking large amounts of IP addresses, where almost all other firewalls cannot.


  • Hosts Manager - A comprehensive program for downloading our HOSTS file with a wide selection of tools for superior HOSTS file management.


  • Blocklist Converter - The original online blocklist converter allows users to input IP addresses in one format and convert them to another format with options to have the output list sorted and formatted in varying ways.

Visit our new site at Blocklist Pro , where you can download all BISS software, IP block lists , Outpost Firewall / Blockpost lists, pre merged IPfilter.dats / SPlists and more.


If you find this service useful, and can help support it - please do donate! Thank you.



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XeroSurf - Online Privacy Shield - Anonymous proxy service

Posted By: Moore @ Jun 1 2009, 04:01 PM
Hi everyone, we have a new "free anonymising proxy service" available to help protect your privacy with our brand new site XeroSurf.

I thought it would be nice to have our own secure proxy which we can surf anonymously and not have to be bombarded with popups or ads throughout the proxied pages while you surf, as you will often see when using many of the other available online web proxies.

An additional extra security feature is the blocking of major ad server / spyware sites through the proxy, so that we have a little extra protection against the usual junk trying to get into our PC's through ads and malicious garbage websites.

For more info on Anonymous Proxies and why you might want to use one, please check out the BISS Proxy guide here : http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=56

If you have any questions, issues or suggestions about our new site please feel free to let us know. drinks.gif
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Google Anti-Malvertising research using BISS research

Posted By: Moore @ May 20 2009, 07:56 AM
Maybe a bit old news but we never really mentioned it before..

Thanks to all the great work by our admin Kimberly, BISS has been included in the new Google Anti Malvertising research - search page.

http://www.anti-malvertising.com/
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Malvertising = malware + advertising.
This is a custom search engine intended to help ad network customers conduct quick background checks on prospective partners. This search engine checks independent, third party sites that track possible attempts by parties to use ads to install malware..

Kimberly has been working extremely hard, as you can see here -> http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showforum=239 - especially, to hunt down and report malicious flash based ads, aka malvertizements, which have infiltrated even the biggest mainstream advertising networks such as Google | Doubleclick, Yahoo, Zedo, RealMedia and even Microsoft advertising.

In the past people were always advised by anti spyware experts to stay away from visiting untrusted and dubious sites to avoid being hijacked with malware. That advice is now useless. You don't need to go looking around any longer in the dark corners of the internet to be hijacked, the malware comes looking for you, straight through your favourite news, computer tech or celebrity gossip site.

As we have seen from following Kimberly's Flash malvertizement research thread in particular - http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=18064 , times have changed, the malware guys have gotten bolder and you risk being infected from absolutely any site that uses advertising, including any of those sites that allow flash ads, even from the major advertising networks.

Any high traffic site that serves advertising can potentially be used to launch malware upon your computer, so as always you need to be very cautious about what you allow through your browser or firewall. If you read through Kimberly's research pages you will be surprised at just how many high profile sites and advertising networks have already been affected, blindly infecting their users and visitors with malware.

On a brighter note, we do add these malicious sites domain names and IP's to our spyware list and hosts file for your protection.
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Blocklist Download Issues - Server Downtime

Posted By: Moore @ May 14 2009, 07:22 AM

:: Update May 16th ::

The new lists server is online and serving files. Unfotunately due to the extremely high level of usage the download speeds may be affected but at least it's working again.

We will continue to monitor the traffic and work on improving the download service where possible over the next week.

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:: May 14 2009 ::

Hi everyone, you may have noticed some of the main lists are not working right now.

We have switched over to a new lists server, which is still being tested and is currently offline for reconfiguration to better handle all the traffic. This new server will hopefully be back online as soon as possible. We will let you all know when things are back to normal.

If you need to update your lists urgently then please visit our backup site at Blocklist Pro - http://blocklistpro.com/ ..

Thanks to everyone for your patience and continued support.
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BISS Back Online

Posted By: Moore @ Feb 11 2009, 06:38 AM
Hi everyone. smile.gif

Thanks for your patience and support as we adjust to new challenges.

Due to server problems late last week with the lists distribution and the number of people downloading the lists increasing each week, we are reaching a point where many of our member-donated servers cannot sustain the load. We decided to take this opportunity over the past few days to shut the forum down temporarily and ask for your help towards acquiring another server to help expand our services.

Now the good news is that with help from all our generous donators, we have been able to purchase a new dedicated server which should hopefully be ready to use very soon and will help us continue providing our services.

With your continued donations support we hope to be able to purchase another list server in the near future to help with the lists distribution and improve the overall stability of our services.

Ulitimately we hope to expand our distribution network and achieve a higher level of independancy, reliability and self sustainability where we are no longer dependant and relying exclusively on other people's donated servers to host our block lists.

Often we run into the problem where member-donated servers cannot handle the extreme load of distributing a lot of the more popular blocklists, especially in cases where they are on shared server accounts with limited resources.. We also find that having no direct control over any of these servers is frustrating at times when we are unable to fix any problems directly or at all.

We greatly appreciate everyone's contributions with past and current donations, as we would be unable to sustain any kind of download service without the extra help over the last 5+ years.

Big thanks also to Snowman, Alpinux and Trans-it.nl for their help with supplying us with download mirrors.
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Database Problem - Forum has been sent back in time

Posted By: Moore @ Jan 26 2009, 08:16 PM
Hi everyone, I'm sorry to say that we have had a server problem earlier today and the forum database has been reset back to about the 18th of January 2009.

Unfortunately all posts made during the last week or so are probably gone for good, and anyone who registered during that time will probably need to re-register. If you have posted something in the last week and you notice it no longer exists please re-post it if you can remember what it was.

I did get most of the IP's posted on the forum in the IP research sections during the last day or two into the lists database yesterday, so we are not suffering any major losses there. Only the forum database has been affected nothing else.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and we hope that nothing too important has been lost during this time..

Thanks for your support in this difficult time of suckyness. In other news, a dingo ate my baby and someone splashed water on a gremlin after 12 o'clock. So lookout.
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IP Filters Update

Posted By: Moore @ Dec 9 2008, 09:36 PM
Hi all, here's another update to let you know what's going on.

The direct downloads for the various custom IP filters are no longer working and will be discontinued if they are not already. We have abandoned the inferior distribution methods of hosting our own torrents, or using sites like rapidshare, easy-share and distribution networks like coral cache etc in favour of our own backup site.

This includes NIPfilter and the PIPfilter. These custom IP filters are now only available as manual downloads from Blocklist Pro.. SPlist and and PSPlist are also available from this IP filters page.

http://blocklistpro.com/download-center/ip-filters/

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Also we never officially made this known but the old p2p templist has been given a new life and is now called the bad peers list. It is updated automatically everyday along with the rest of our main blocklists.

The bad peers list can only be downloaded using the Blocklist Pro mirror site or BISS Config page.

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Blocklist Downloads:

BlocklistPro :
http://blocklistpro.com/download-center/ - Free access to all

BISS Config :
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/ - Members only - must be logged in

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Hope thats helps clear up some of the confusion about where to find the latest updated block list files around here. smile.gif

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And hey just a FYI , if you need to pm a staff member for help make sure you PM one that actually still visits the forum ok smile.gif Bluetack for example is no longer an active admin. So please don't send him PM's .

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