I am new to Peer Guradian and just messing around with it to get comfortable with the fact that its protecting me. I would like some better advanced tutorials but the stickys are too many and too general.

But my specific question is, Is blocking my ISP range good/pk to do? Will this block the being able to see what i am doing or is this impossible?

The reason i ask is because apparently im an uploading maniac and i got a call from my ISP saying "hey i know what your doing, I see the MP3's and upload rates." and telling me to stop pretty much.

I blocked everything I could in the initial setup of PG2 and I was using http://www.whois-search.com to look up allowed IP addresses. I came across my ISP (cable) and i made a list and blocked the ranges.


Am i accomplishing my goal of not letting my ISP see what i am uploading and downloading?


please let me know if this was confusing and what to be more specific on. I am currently blocking my ISP from my computer so if this is bad a quick reply would be great

thanks alot

Something else i noticed. I had to allow my ISP and something called "Korea Advances Institute of Science and Technology" for 15 min in order to do updates on the P2P lists... Why is that? I did not add it this is something PG2 blocked or had this in its own list. I just saw that it was blocking it a lot when i was trying to update...

Was this something I should not have done? It looks like this may be a location for a block list.

any help would be great. It's tough to look over this site and understand it all.

Hi.. At first I thought you were reporting that we were blocking your ISP.

You can't block your ISP from seeing what you do just by blocking their IP addresses, but you could end up just stopping your internet from working. If you are using their DNS servers then they could also just check their logs to see what sites you've been visiting.

But anyway, you are using their network so they will know everything you do, if they want to know. All your traffic goes through their system to get to you. The only real solution is to look into using some kind of program that masks your activities using a proxy or encrypted network to limit their snooping..

Getting this kind of privacy to work properly can get a little technical, so be prepared to read a lot before jumping in. There are quite a few similar programs/services you can try, and most likely your download speed will be affected in some way.

For protecting your privacy with P2P you can try looking into using SOCKS proxies, with a program such as sockscap, and some P2P programs have proxy support built in.

We have a introduction to proxies guide here, so check that out:
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=56

You could start off by researching TOR for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)

For a simple solution to protect your browsing only there's a modified version of Firefox to work with TOR called Xerobank:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeroBank_Browser

Also check out the wilders forum, do a quick search for previous discussions about subjects like this.

Encrypting internet traffic
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=87114

Anonymous surfing and strong encryption
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=147714

Tor and https
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=154453

Tor/Proxomitron+SocksCap
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=55748


So the best solution is not to block your ISP's IP addresses but to try and block them from spying on your online activities altogether.

As for the korea connection you allowed, what was the IP address/port details for that. ? As far as I know we don't have any lists hosted in korea, maybe someone else does.

What locations are you using to download the lists with PG2 ?



Moving this to security discussion forum.