This is my custom hosts lists for Ab-Solution. It includes Crazy Max‘s windows spying blocklists, which block a lot of Windows spying at router level, as well as various ad, spam, and malware lists. Ab-Solution will update these lists once a week and you can set it and forget it. This has been tested for […]
Use Adaway as an Android IP Filter / Blocklist
I spent some time trying to find an acceptable ipfilter for Android and had almost hit a wall. Repeated suggestions of Peerblock were unacceptable as the application is buggy and has not seen development in some months.
Updates to Thunderbird and Firefox Pro Packs
Updates have been made to both the Firefox Pro Pack and the Thunderbird Pro Pack with those made to Firefox being more significant. Look below for the new additions or click through, above, for the full package. The update for Firefox’s pack now has the additions of: Muter – mutes all Firefox content. Adblock Plus […]
Torrent Ninja Guide – Stay Anonymous
We’ve covered torrent privacy back in 2009, right before Windows 7 came out. At that time we helped you get peer guardian running on the release candidate and provided an alternative method by using utorrent’s ipfilter.dat. We’re back with an updated and superior alternative for both utorrent, peer guardian, and peerblock. You might need to […]
Data Retention Periods of Major Cell Service Providers
This document, obtained by the ACLU, details data retention policies of the five major US cellphone carriers. The table below is a copy of the original PDF with some info removed, you can see the original at this link. Verizon T-Mobile AT&T / Cingular Sprint Nextel Virgin Mobile Subscriber Information Post Paid 3-5 Yrs 5 […]
Removing Factory Apps from Android Phone
UPDATE: You can just use Root Explorer. So I recently obtained a G1 which I flashed to Cyanogen 6.0, a problem it runs in to is a lack of ram: background processes like facebook and twitter and DSP manager don’t leave much room to breathe… But, there’s a way to remove them… you need […]
Remove Google Web History for better privacy
Google’s web history tracks your usage data. It gives you a choice to delete certain searches, it also gives your mom, the police, and hackers an ability to explore this diary. Whether they use it for blackmail or prosecution, its not good for YOU.
PeerGuardian PG alternative, ipfilter + utorrent, ipfilter.dat
Whether you are looking for an alternative to PG2 because it fails to function properly, or simply looking to cut down the number of processes you are running – the information here is for you.
It is possible to block ip-ranges with utorrent’s built in ipfiltering system.
Peer Guardian 2 with Windows 7 pgfilter.sys 64
PG2 will not work out of the box, and the information provided on PG2’s instruction page is outdated. This is a step-by-step guide to get pg2 working with Win7 RC x64.