PeerGuardian2

**unclex** · 28th March 2005

PeerGuardian2

I have been using this beta for some weeks now and have found it to have loads of improvments.

Main site
http://www.methlabs.org/

Forums
http://methlabs.org/forums/

Updates for block lists are much better and some new good ways to switch it on and off.

**Tattooed Freak** · 28th March 2005

Nice one fella, updating now. Will post back any findings that I have.

**beansontoast** · 28th March 2005

I've been using beta 4a for just over a week & I'm pleased with it. No waiting for the blocklist to load when I start up the pc & the performance of the pc seems to be unaffected to the point where I might try burning dvd's while leaving pg2 on (something I couldn't do with pg1).

**unclex** · 28th March 2005

runs on linux as well

**Leather** · 29th March 2005

Thanks for that Unclex, just updated.

Allways found the original excellent but a bit of a pain loading up the block list.

Have you found any probs with this one yet?

**beansontoast** · 29th March 2005

Originally Posted by Leather

Have you found any probs with this one yet?

Only problem I had was pg1 didn't totally remove itself when I did an uninstall. When I'd removed the remaining parts of pg1 the new version loads up properly. I think it's great so far, earlier betas gave me problems. It's bizarre but I really notice the reduced load on this pc, admittedly it isn't cutting edge anymore. p.s. I use aggresive list optimisation.

Got to read the instructions sometime, I remember in the pre-release they said you could hold ctrl + click a blocked link to temporarily allow it. I'd better read em.

**Leather** · 29th March 2005

p.s. I use aggresive list optimisation.

Yes Ive seen that option what does it mean?

I can see that it reduces cpu power but how?

**beansontoast** · 30th March 2005

It's like this; let's say ip range 12345 is blocked & is known as 'nosey' and there's another range of 345 blocked which is called 'parker'. With aggresive optimisation the same ranges are blocked but some of the details on who they are is merged. So in the above case 'parker' will be incorporated into 'nosey' and pg2 only needs to remember it as 'nosey'. Hope this made sense

**FireBlade** · 30th March 2005

Ohh cool i like it had a few problems with yahoo messanger but seem to have sussed it had hits all day from

Hollywood interactive inc 38.116.156.117
that Riaa?

**Leather** · 30th March 2005

Originally Posted by beansontoast

It's like this; let's say ip range 12345 is blocked & is known as 'nosey' and there's another range of 345 blocked which is called 'parker'. With aggresive optimisation the same ranges are blocked but some of the details on who they are is merged. So in the above case 'parker' will be incorporated into 'nosey' and pg2 only needs to remember it as 'nosey'. Hope this made sense

Thanks for the time and reply.

Yes thats made sense.

Thanks again :thumbs