PSA: Blocking China

[Drek]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

For years, when a company hires me for IT consulting, the first thing I do it block China, India, Nigeria, and Russia's IP ranges. These countries have a number of people that either are crooks or paid government employees trying to rob you of information and anything. It's not something people think about, but you should block them at your home. You can easily Google their IP ranges and do it.

Anywho....enjoy the week off

Valid warning.

I've reported three different IPs myself to the FBI from China, trying to hack my home PC (all failed attempts).

The average person needs to have Peerblock installed with a nice selection of I-Blocklist IP lists to refuse. It will save you a TON of hassle down the road and is the ultimate screening tool to prevent contact with the shadier elements of the internet.

[maher_tyler]

1. How does a person go about blocking these IP addresses? I've never heard of doing this or how to do it.

2. How do you know if someone is trying to access your computer? Aren't Spy sweepers and Anti-Virus enough?

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

For years, when a company hires me for IT consulting, the first thing I do it block China, India, Nigeria, and Russia's IP ranges. These countries have a number of people that either are crooks or paid government employees trying to rob you of information and anything. It's not something people think about, but you should block them at your home. You can easily Google their IP ranges and do it.

Anywho....enjoy the week off

Seeing as I grew up in HK and my dad lives in China, this will be tough. Generally speaking I'd agree though.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by Chris

Seeing as I grew up in HK and my dad lives in China, this will be tough. Generally speaking I'd agree though.

Yeah...it's not going to fit everyone's needs, but .....

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

Yeah...it's not going to fit everyone's needs, but .....

Also is there a way i can still connect to russianbrides.ru while still blocking out this guy?

[LongDongJohnson]

Internet Porn is all I care about.

Screw China. As long as they dont fill my PC with poop porn im good.

[Willynowei]

A country of 1.6 billion whose people are routinely shut off from full access of the world wide web; whose youth almost unanimously hates this and have installed socks proxies on every device including their freaking IPAD to play videogames that are banned in the country....

yeah, you're doing a lot by blocking out requests from that country.

Good luck.

In other news, today, I installed a 3feet high wooden fence around my backyard to prevent my child from being kidnapped.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by Willynowei

A country of 1.6 billion whose people are routinely shut off from full access of the world wide web; whose youth almost unanimously hates this and have installed socks proxies on every device including their freaking IPAD to play videogames that are banned in the country....

yeah, you're doing a lot by blocking out requests from that country.

Good luck.

In other news, today, I installed a 3feet high wooden fence around my backyard to prevent my child from being kidnapped.

They can't proxy an IP that's not a rout on their country's network the same way someone in my network can't just use any IP to do anything.