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Old September 17th, 2005
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Default WARNING: If you use PeerGuardian! READ THIS! (Security)

The official PeerGuardian website (methlabs.org) and their companion update site (blocklist.org), has now been hijacked (stolen) by a member of its own group.

PeerGuardian is an application that blocks a range of IP addresses that are known to be hostile towards p2p or privacy in general, from connecting to your computer. It is well maintained by a group of dedicated developers that strive to further secure your system from these prying eyes.

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"What all was compromised?

The domains methlabs.org and blocklist.org, the servers which hosted them, and a large amount of donation money which was given by happy users to keep our servers online and fast."

What can YOU do?

You should NOT trust the posts or content at methlabs.org.

Read More here: http://slyck.com/news.php?story=913

You should now get future updates from there sourceforge website here: http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net/

Secure your updates of peerguardian to make your copy safe HERE (click) http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net/secure.html

More Reading:
1) http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net/index2.html
2) http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net/faq.html

Need Realtime Help? Check out their IRC channel here: irc://irc.freenode.net/methlabs (you will need an IRC client like mIRC available here)

Various Excerpts and Resources:

"The majority of the Methlabs.org administration and development team have been forced out of their website following a series of threats and incidents. The member of the group that had been trusted to handle the finances and servers slowly managed to take over each individual part of the website's assets, eventually claiming control over the entire group and locking out the majority of staff." -peerguardian.sourceforge.net

"UPDATE: William Erwin, now confirmed as the hijacker, has posted news on Methlabs.org, claiming the hijacking news is false and stems from a revolt by former team members.

However, after speaking to the Methlabs team and various connected members of the community, P2Pnet, SuprNova and Slyck can all confirm that the original story that the domain has been hijacked is genuine.

PeerGuardian users are advised to stop using the Methlabs.org and Blocklist.org hosted blocklists in favor of the Bluetack list." -slyck.com

http://suprnova.org/?op=showLong&aID=27
http://p2pnet.net/story/6275
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nice info...
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http://phoenixlabs.org
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this sticky was supposed to be removed months ago...
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Yep ... done. I believe this issue was sorted out.
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Sorry, I just noticed that the new address wasn't in the thread
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