Moreover, you can view a history list or clear the log file, customize settings when it comes to the log window, history and notifications, make the app automatically run at system startup and start minimized to the system tray area, among others. Enabling and disabling PeerBlock's status can be done with the simple click of a button. The main application window shows the time, range, source, destination and protocol for each connection. In the last step, you can enable the app to check for updates (PeerBlock, lists, or both), on a regular basis (e.g. These can be either peer-to-peer organizations (P2P), ads, spyware or educational institutions.Īlternatively, you can import or create custom lists as well as always allow the computer to connect via port 80 and 443, even if they are blacklisted. Upon initialization, you can use a wizard to specify the types of ranges you want to block.
Hopefully this will help to alleviate people's confusion about this.
Many thanks to night_stalker_z for his hard work on this feature! This can for example be used if you're running PeerBlock on a public FTP server, or if you want to ensure that outgoing SMTP mail communications are never blocked. This means that PeerBlock will not filter any connections from/to those ports. Port Allow List - The new "Port Settings" tab allows you to unblock ports (incoming and/or outgoing).