The Blocklist Manager is an application that downloads blacklists from various sources, processes for duplicates and merges based on rules, converts to a new format, and exports them to applications such as:

• Protowall
• PeerGuardian
• Outpost Blockpost
• Sygate
• ZoneAlarm
• Safepeer
• Abyss
• Morpheus/Gnucleus
• Kazaa Lite K++
• eMule
• And many other popular P2P applications & firewalls

It is a Swiss army knife of network security tools:

• IP Range Calculator
• The WHOIS Project
• Angry IP Scanner
• IP Config Status
• SmartWhois Integration
• Hosts file Manager Integration
• Port Monitor
• AnalogX Simple Server and NetView
• Local Hostname and IP address
• Netmask List
• Personal Inclusion and Exclusion of ranges
• Scheduled download of sources
• Source selection for more control over what is blocked
• and more to come...

The Blocklist Manager can simplify and automate many tasks for you. The Blocklist Manager can be set up to download, merge and export a list for you. It also includes a built in converter that allows you to convert to and from various formats. Some of these formats are listed below:

• CIDR Import and Export
• Protowall
• PeerGuardian
• Outpost Version 1 and 2
• IP Chains
• Bearshare
• ZoneAlarm
• Sygate
• Generic IP
• Snort
• And many more
  

The Blocklist Manager has the ability to import from custom sources also. Along with this, it has a built in Inclusions/Exclusions manager. With these, you can define custom IP’s and ranges to be included or excluded from the list. This can be useful if there is a web site that is blocked and you want it unblocked you can just add the IP address of the website to the Exclusions manager.

It also includes the Whois Project that allows a user to lookup IP addresses. The Whois Project was made by The Faimous One and Seraphielx to stop the confusion of having to know which IP addresses are listed on which whois servers. It will select the proper server and look up the IP for you. This project is still being expanded to make use of RWhois servers. Stay tuned for more on that.

NOTE (for Exe only file): Rename your current BlockMgr.exe to BlockMgr.backup.exe and unzip this BlockMgr.exe in it's place. If you find any problems, you can then delete the BlockMgr.exe and rename the BlockMgr.backup.exe back to BlockMgr.exe.

Although it is not fully functional without the listview enabled, it can be used to generate lists quickly if you don't use the listview.

Unchecking 'Use Listview' in options will allow BLM to use an internal memory array
to process rather than the listview. This is fast and uses little memory.

• Some of the conversions only work when there is a list loaded in the listview, however, the basic exports work. There is a new menu item 'Array' that has an option to load the memory array into the listview.
• Performing a find of IP's from the memory array will load the results into the listview.
• Notice there is a 'Clear' menu item now. Once set up, you can check 'Download on Startup', 'Shutdown when Done', 'Auto Export', and 'Start Minimized in Tray' to have the BLM invisibly process your predefined lists and outputs, then exit quietly.

Memory Array Processing vs. Listview Processing

Using the Listview as the central storage for IP Ranges is the original method by which BLM processed the lists. With small lists this was faster than merging via cut and paste. Listview Processing is performed in the following sequence: Loading of Sources with Duplicate removal, Sorting, Merging/Splitting, then Exporting.

Using the Memory Array is new. By disabling the Listview Processing, much greater speed and much less memory is used. Memory Array Processing is performed in the following sequence: Loading of Sources, Sorting, Duplicate removal/Merging/Splitting, then Exporting.

* Option: Memory Array optimized for up to 327680 Rules
* Option: Process on Startup
* Option: Shutdown when done processing
-- This only happens if there were no errors.
* Tweak: Inclusions/Exclusions Enhanced
-- Added Listview and controls. It's now the BLM Edit feature.
-- Add/Edit/Delete "Personal IP filter" via the Inclusions OR the Exclusions Editors.
* Option: Fill Listview from Array After Processing
-- Automatically populate the Listview after Memory Array processing is complete.
* Fix: IP Range Calculator (Ctrl-C)
* Fix: Bearshare Format
-- Added /255.255.255.255 mask for single IP's
* Fix: WHOIS Project now accepts a Host as well as an IP