ProtoWall 2.01 Build 9 Beta

3.8 out of 5 stars 3.8 (45 votes)

BETA (April 18, 2006)

Windows 2000/2003/XP / Freeware / 17,853 downloads

Protowall is a lightweight program that runs in the background, taking up little CPU and memory, while blocking thousands of bad IP addresses. All the work is done by the driver that filters each packet, extracts the IP header and then compares the address with the ones in the table, then either discards or permits the packet to pass. The GUI is essentially a "driver instructor" that communicates to the driver the IP list to check against. The GUI also receives notifications from the driver when a packet arrives and when actions are performed with a packet. It Blocks both inbound and outbound packets. It blocks incoming packets from Internet addresses that are on the Bluetack Blacklists. This is handled by another program called the Blocklist Manager. This program finds and retrieves lists of bad IP addresses. They are sorted (overlapping resolved) and then converted to various formats such as Protowall, PeerGuardian & other common applications and firewalls.

  • Publisher

    Dudez

  • Homepage

    ProtoWall

  • Latest Changes

    - [FEATURE] Tray icon restores when explorer crashes

    - [FIX] Block windows not showing on startup

    - [TWEAK] Changed installer to non-silent to display the warnings as confirmation

    - [FIX] Fixed tray icon turning back to green when pw is stopped while blocking + added stopping PW to log

    - [TWEAK] Added some more logging window calls to stabilise the window behaviour + made it snap on startup

    - [FEATURE] Implemented reactivation timer preference (Full functionality to follow.)

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    Bagobie

    Reviewing 2.01 Build 9 Beta (Jun 3, 2006)

    So happy it's still under dev... love this program. For christ sakes, for people having problems installing it, they made a VIDEO just for you dum suma biches. Quit b****ing, once you get the driver working protowall works beautifully.

    Video is here:
    http://www.bluetack.co.u...sh/Protowall_flash.html

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    zaga

    Reviewing 2.01 Build 9 Beta (May 29, 2006)

    I love this tool. This and PG2.

    Keep the internet free.

    Call your congressman and force him vote against the COPE bill!

    http://www.savetheinternet.com/

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    ArabianNight

    Reviewing 2.01 Build 9 Beta (May 29, 2006)

    This + PG2 = FREEDOM

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    robertguda

    Reviewing 2.01 Build 9 Beta (May 29, 2006)

    notwithstanding not being able to get it to run, (followed all the steps on the homepage faq) I gather it a very usefull program. i took refugee in peer guardian that worked flawlessly since first install. the possibility to download prefabbed blacklists is Godsend as is the experience of thousands of other users on their respective programs homepage. a very welcome & needed addition to using a firewall.

    (one day later)
    installed it on my dual xeon server and no problem. up and running. my other machine is an amd64, maybe i've got some issues there. in any case worthwhile trying out and using !

  5. 4 out of 5 stars
    trebor

    Reviewing 2.01 Build 9 Beta (May 29, 2006)

    Since my firewall is a swiss cheese (SKPW) as far as IP blocking is concerned, i've been using an IP specific blocking app. Tried this one a few times, but failed to install or had CPU hogging problems....nevertheless worth a re-try as the present blocker does not allow hit counting.

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