Is peerguardian a virus?

[iSabifi]

Me and my friend were arguing about peerguardian being a virus or not. So can you solve our conflict? Thanks.

 

[Irock619]

Me and my friend were arguing about peerguardian being a virus or not. So can you solve our conflict? Thanks.

https://www.google.com/search?q=peerguardian&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari

 

[iSabifi]

guessing it isn't?

 

[GGJstudios]

Me and my friend were arguing about peerguardian being a virus or not. So can you solve our conflict? Thanks.

No, PeerGuardian is not a virus. There has never been a Mac OS X virus in the wild.

PeerGuardian is a privacy oriented firewall application. It blocks connections to and from hosts specified in huge blocklists (thousands or millions of IP ranges).

Mac Virus/Malware FAQ

 

[jw2002]

No, it's not a virus, but it's probably not worth installing unless you use a zillion different P2P applications at once. For instance, the bit torrent application Transmission has an option for loading and updating from a blocklist URL, so there is no need to have a separate app take care of that.