LEVEL 1 BLACKLIST
Companies or organizations who are clearly involved with trying to stop filesharing (e.g. Baytsp, MediaDefender, Mediasentry a.o.).
Companies which anti-p2p activity has been seen from.
Companies that produce or have a strong financial interest in copyrighted material (e.g. music, movie, software industries a.o.).
Government ranges or companies that have a strong financial interest in doing work for governments.
Legal industry ranges.
IPs or ranges of ISPs from which anti-p2p activity has been observed. Basically this list will block all kinds of internet connections that most people would rather not have during their internet travels.
PLEASE NOTE: The Level1 list is recommended for general P2P users, but it all comes down to your personal choice.
LEVEL 2 LIST
General corporate ranges.
Ranges used by labs or researchers.
Proxies.
LEVEL 3 LIST
Many portal-type websites.
ISP ranges that may be dodgy for some reason.
Ranges that belong to an individual, but which have not been determined to be used by a particular company.
Ranges for things that are unusual in some way. The L3 list is aka the paranoid list.
SPYWARE LIST
This list is a compilation of known malicious SPYWARE and ADWARE IP Address ranges.
It is compiled from various sources, including other available Spyware Blacklists, HOSTS files, from research found at many of the top Anti-Spyware forums, logs of Spyware victims and also from the Malware Research Section at Bluetack.
DShield Recommended List
This list contains known Hackers and such people in it.
Microsoft List
This list covers the known Microsoft Corp ranges that are not on Level1, as well as their known associated IP ranges from around the world.
AD TRACKERS
This list is constructed to block connections from advertising - marketing research data tracking sites, bad pop-ups...
Educational Institution Ranges - EDU
This list contains known Educational Institutions - University IP ranges - Educational Networks - School Districts a.o..
Tor / Proxy List
This list has been compiled from a list of Tor servers and various other proxy servers.
SPIDERS LIST
Automated software programs also known as spiders or bots, survey the Web and build their databases for search engines and some are used to track people down to automatically serve them with copyright violation notices. This list is intended to be used by webmasters to block hostile spiders from their web sites.
PLEASE NOTE: Google and other search engines are blocked by this list.
Master Exclusions
This is a list of websites and other IP's some people may not want to block.
Range Testing
This list contains addresses of suspicious IP's that are under investigation.
IANA - Bogon - Hijacked - Non-LAN lists
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) List
These are the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority lists. They are for reserved listings and IP addresses that are supposedly not in use as of yet. This list (IANA Private) and possibly the other IANA lists contain IP Ranges that will conflict with your connection if you are one a home network or a company network. You should add the IPs or Ranges that belong to your network to your Exclusions list in the Blocklist Manager.
Bogon List
Contains known Bogon IP-Blocks.
From CompleteWhois:
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Bogons is the name used to describe IP blocks not allocated by IANA and RIRs to ISPs and organizations plus all other IP blocks that are reserved for private or special use by RFCs (the actual term bogons comes from word bogus, as in bogus IP announcements). As these IP blocks are not allocated or specially reserved, such IP blocks should not be routable and used on the internet, however some of these IP blocks do appear on the net primarily used by those individuals and organizations that are often specifically trying to avoid being identified and are often involved in such activities as DoS attacks, email abuse, hacking and other security problems. These activities obviously pose great danger to everyone and ISPs should try to filter all these bad IP routes and we are trying to help in that by working to create complete detailed list of unassigned bogon ips based on whois data.
In other words, if you get hit by an IP address from this range, then they have spoofed their IP address and they, most likely, are trying to do something untoward.
Hijacked List
Contains hijacked IP-Blocks and known IP-Blocks that are used to deliver Spam.
From CompleteWhois:
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Hijacked IP space are IP blocks that are being used without permission by organizations that have no relation to original organization (or its legal successor) that received the IP block. In essence it's stealing of somebody else's IP resources.
These ranges are being used illegally and are most likely being used for illegal activities. They should not be being used and should therefore be blocked.
Non-LAN List
This list blocks LAN [Local Area Network] IP ranges. It is only recommended for use by people that do not have home networks and want to block the IANA Private address ranges which should not be used on the internet.