Bot Revolt anti-malware free edition 1.3

EULA - End User License Agreement

Version 1.4.3
Release Date: May, 2013

Platform Support

Bot Revolt currently supports Windows XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7 and 8 in 32-bit and 64-bit.

Links

http://www.botrevolt.com Bot Revolt Website
http://blog.botrevolt.com/forums/ Bot Revolt Forums
http://www.botrevolt.com.com/manual Bot Revolt User Guide

Contact Us:

info@botrevolt.com Sales, Administration
support@botrevolt.com Bugs, Problems, Questions

What is Bot Revolt:

The short explanation is: Bot Revolt blocks "known bad" computers from accessing yours, and vice versa. Depending on the lists you have it setup to use, you can block governments, corporations, machines flagged for anti-p2p activities, even entire countries! Whether you're sharing files or just surfing the web, Bot Revolt can help protect you from the bad guys.

How does it works:

An IP Address is like a telephone number, or a street address, for your computer - any time you connect to the Internet, your IP address is used to make that connection. If you go to "www.google.com", your computer first translates this to an IP address (e.g. 66.102.1.104), then sends a request to that address for a web-page; when the www.google.com computer receives this message, part of it contains your computer's IP address so that it knows how to send the web-page back to you.

Bot Revolt is a type of program known as an "IP Filter" and extra layer of security. It lives way down deep inside the networking code on your computer - the stuff in Windows that actually makes/receives network connections for you - and inspects everything that flows past it. It looks at the IP address this network "packet" is coming from, and compares it against a list of "bad" ip-addresses; if it finds a match, it doesn't let that network packet make it through to the rest of your computer. It also looks at the IP address your network packets are going to, and does the same thing.

Something I need to access is blocked! What can I do?
Sometimes the IP addresses programs need to connect to may end up on one of the blocklists you've configured Bot Revolt to use. This can cause software to not download new updates, Windows Update to no longer work, programs to lose connectivity to the internet, etc. Luckily this is easy to fix!
What you'll need to do first is to identify the IP address(es) to which your software needs to connect. For example, let's say you have a program that needs to connect to the Internet when it starts up, but that program is not working. Open the main Bot Revolt window, and then start up your problematic program. In the Bot Revolt window you should see some blocked IP addresses logged; right-click on these IP-addresses and select "Allow"! You can temporarily allow them for 15 minutes or 1 hour, or you can allow them permanently.
Your "Permanent Allow List" can be edited later by going into the List Manager, selecting the "Permanent Allows" list (listspermallow.p2b), then clicking the "Open List" button.

Bot Revolt is based of PeerBlock. After they stopped the development in 2010 we picked it up and made improvements.(http://www.peerblock.com)
PeerBlock Credits:
Mark Bulas (MarkSide) - Lead Developer
night_stalker_z - Core Team
XhmikosR - Core Team
Jason Casimir - Contributor
A. Jesse Harper (DarC / DisCoStu) - Contributor