Dear LW Folks

I have recently installed Peer Guardian (V1.99b r14) and found out that my PC is under attack from far more than just criminals and miscreants.

Believe it or not PG reported that NASA, Microsoft (UK), a scientific institute and some other sites trying to get into my computer.

Now why does these "agencies" and fakers want rummage around inside my (and all of our) PCs?



UK Bob

When I 1st read your post I thought hey ... but I've seen other reports that suggest it's very good.

http://www.techzonez.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4160

Crappy Spywares that are spies & supplementary
Sneaky devils! Here's some other comments I read:


Tweakers Tip: Block the RIAA

PeerGuardian is a free program that hides your file sharing from known RIAA informants.

You have a firewall to keep out hackers, so why not have a firewall to keep out the RIAA? If you're running Windows, PeerGuardian does just that.

Keep RIAA informants off your case
Each time you launch PeerGuardian, it downloads the latest list of known RIAA informants and blocks them from connecting to your computer. The list contains hundreds of known IP-address ranges the RIAA has used to catch file swappers.

Does PeerGuardian offer 100 percent protection? No. If an unknown RIAA informant sneaks through, you're still busted.

Remember, the best way to not get caught is to not share pirated files. Support the musicians or movies you love and pick up a CD or DVD. Then share it. (Just kidding.)

Get PeerGuardian now. It's free! Is a tiny firewall program especially designed for P2P software users

PeerGuardian is a tiny firewall program especially designed for P2P software users, but also to anyone who is concerned about the investigations that corporations and authorities perform on the internet. PeerGurdian blocks connections for the configured IP ranges and logs the blocked connections. It uses an online IP database for the blocking, but IP ranges can also be configured manually. Pre-cofigured for blocking are RIAA, MPAA and many others.

Dear LOTR (and others interested in PC Security)

I have just gone through my Peer Guardian log and found that the following organisations tried repeatedly, and failed, to connect themselves to my PC:

Naval Research Laboratory Stennis Space Center Bay, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NHI-NETWORKS-FAKES, City of Halifax, Myrias Computer Technologies Inc Canada, Communications Resources, United States Navy, National Science Foundation, INRIA, FTP Software Inc., MCA, Microsoft London Internet Data Center and RealNetworks Inc.

I ask these questions knowing that I will never get an answer but why would NASA, the US Navy, some computer company in Canada, etc. want to look at my PC? What right do they have to try and invade my privacy?

It is bad enough that I have to try and protect myself from criminals, phisers and hackers but now I have to protect myself from foreign (US and Canadian) agencies and companies.

This just makes me feel sick.




UK Bob

Hmmm surprised here are the results I got:

Connection Rejected: 131.107.102.76 - Microsoft Corp trackers 2 AP2P (02-20-2005 @ 09:22:00)
Connection Rejected: 12.220.190.60 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration AP2P (02-20-2005 @ 09:32:58)
Connection Rejected: 12.220.190.60 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration AP2P (02-20-2005 @ 09:32:58)
Connection Rejected: 12.220.198.132 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration AP2P (02-20-2005 @ 09:50:36)
Connection Rejected: 199.126.36.102 - City of Halifax CITY-HALIFAX-NS-CA (NET-199-126-28 (02-20-2005 @ 09:59:49)
Connection Rejected: 12.214.28.86 - INRIA AP2P (02-20-2005 @ 10:00:02)
Connection Rejected: 12.214.28.86 - INRIA AP2P (02-20-2005 @ 10:04:39)
Connection Rejected: 12.220.229.154 - Naval Research Laboratory Stennis Space Center Bay (02-20-2005 @ 10:06:13)
Connection Rejected: 12.214.45.166 - INRIA AP2P (02-20-2005 @ 10:13:01

Thanks for the tip ukbobboy01

Installing PeerGuardian now

Anyone got a link for PeerGuardian? I googled it but got confusing results. As in didn't see any that were free.

Here is the link. http://www.methlabs.org/methlabs.htm

Just chose the one for your operating system.

I can't seem to find/pull up perr guardian.

Try Peerguardian (click on link) FREE Download

I would say that most of those reports are false alarms. Most of the time those agencies aren't actually trying to connect to your computer. It's probably mostly just port scanning. It is someone on a PG blacklisted IP range ping-sweeping the IP range you are on. It seems that the purpose of that would be to se all of the computers that have port 6346 open. Take a look at this to keep track of what ports are active on your machine. As long as you have a good firewall (ZoneAlarm, Black Ice, Sygate...), PeerGaurdian, and the Active Ports tool you should be safe from prying eyes. Just remember, don't get too alarmed over what you see on the logs of ZoneAlarm or PeerGaurdian. Good luck.

deepblue

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