Manual Tutorial For Adding PG Blocklist.

Step 1 - BACKUP YOUR SECURITY SETTINGS:

1. Open ZoneAlarm’s control panel.

2. Navigate to Overview > Preferences.

3. Under “Backup and Restore Security Settings”, select Backup.

4. Give your .XML file a new name.

For the purpose of this tutorial, from now on I will refer to this file as “backup.xml”.

5. Save this file to your desktop.

6. Now minimize ZoneAlarm for the time being.


Step 2 - UPDATE YOUR PEERGUARDIAN “GUARDING.P2P” FILE:

1. Make sure that your “guarding.p2p” file is current. Visit the following web site: http://methlabs.org/sync/


Step 3 - USING PEERGUARDING’S EXPORT FEATURE:

1. Open PeerGuardian.

2. Navigate to Tools > Blocklist.

3. When the new “PeerGuardian List Management” window displays, navigate to File > Export Blocklist > ZoneAlarm v4 XML.

4. Now you must give the new file a name.

From now on I will refer to this file as “ip_ranges.txt”.

5. Save this file to your desktop.


Step 4 - EDITING YOUR .XML FILE:

1. Locate and open the “backup.xml” file using notepad.

2. Here’s the confusing part, scroll the text down until you come across the following section (it’s in there somewhere I promise, it's within the top half of the document):

<zones>
<trusted clearOldEntries="true" defaultNetworkStatus="ask" defaultAdapterMode="off">
</trusted>
<restricted clearOldEntries="true" defaultNetworkStatus="ask" defaultAdapterMode="off">
</restricted>
</zones>

3. Highlight this section of the text so that it's easier to find again and minimize notepad for the time being.

4. Next, locate and open “ip_ranges.txt” using notepad.

5. Press Ctrl+A to select the entire blocklist.

6. Copy the list to your clipboard. Use right-click + copy, or Ctrl+C.

7. Next, maximize the “backup.xml” file.

8. Now, locate the highlighted section of “backup.xml” – and replace it with the blocklist that you copied from the “ip_ranges.txt” document.

9. After a few small edits, your “backup.xml” should now look something like this (but much longer of course):

NOTE: Please study this example and make sure that your <zones> tag is formatted correct!

<zones>
<trusted clearOldEntries="true" defaultNetworkStatus="ask" defaultAdapterMode="off">
</trusted>
<restricted clearOldEntries="true" defaultNetworkStatus="ask" defaultAdapterMode="off">
<iprange address="195.141.102.**" toAddress="195.141.102.**" status="true" description=""/>
<iprange address="64.75.133.***" toAddress="64.75.133.***" status="true" description=" WebDAV exploit"/>
<iprange address="64.163.151.***" toAddress="64.163.151.***" status="true" description=" WebDAV exploit"/>
<iprange address="64.83.49.***" toAddress="64.83.49.***" status="true" description=" WebDAV exploit"/>
</restricted>
</zones>

10. Next remove any extra blank spaces added to the “backup.xml” file after pasting the new blocklist.

11. Now save the changes made to the “backup.xml” file.


Step 5 - RESTORING YOUR SECURITY SETTINGS:

1. Maximize ZoneAlarm’s control panel.

2. Navigate to Overview > Preferences.

3. Under “Backup and Restore Security Settings”, select Restore.

4. Locate your “backup.xml” file and select OK.

5. This should take a few minutes.



And that’s it. It’s best to now delete the “backup.xml” file and generate a new backup file with all the new ranges. And save it somewhere for safe keeping until the next update.

This is a simple method to use since the ZAUpdater 2.0 has not been reliable as of late. I'll add pictures to this later on if necessary.

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