Sunday, June 22, 2008

PeerGuardian 2 and history.db

If you don't know what PeerGuardian 2, the possibilities of your PC making an unwanted connections to P-2-P or other sites on the last 24 hours is close to 99.99%!

PeerGuardian 2 is premier IP blocker for Windows that protects your privacy and make tracking you back specially when you're using P-2-P difficult if not impossible.

File Description Size
pg2-9x.exe PeerGuardian 2 for Windows 98/ME 0.82MiB
pg2-nt.exe PeerGuardian 2 for Windows 2000/XP/2003 0.84MiB
pg2-x64.exe PeerGuardian 2 for Windows XP/2003 x64 Edition 1.07MiB
pg2-src.zip PeerGuardian 2 source code (for programmers) 1.33MiB

The only drawbacks of PeerGuardian 2 is, it keeps log of your blocked connections and the problem is even worse if you are logging the allowed connections. What that means is, with time your history.db size could take up some Gigabytes of your hard drive.

In my situation, I'm pretty comfortable with the connections I make and I don't want any history logging. The best way to solve this is

  1. Disable PeerGuardian 2
  2. Go to C:\Program Files\PeerGuardian2\
  3. Delete the history.db
  4. Enable PeerGuardian 2

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