Bot Revolt is a cyber-security company that takes a fresh new approach to prevent cyber-crime. Bot Revolt is a malware connection detection software for Windows. Instead of scanning your files for signs of infections, Bot Revolt monitors active inbound and outbound Internet connections. Bot Revolt checks to see where processes from your computer are connecting to, to which IP addresses and then compares detected IP address with its list of malicious IP addresses, blocking connections that are in fact malicious, created by malware and viruses. Because Bot Revolt updates itself daily, the program gets stronger each day it runs. We add roughly 3,000 new threats to Bot Revolt per day, currently the program blocks over 1.5 billion IP’s. Bot Revolt is also an anti-spying tool that helps consumers monitor who is connecting with their PC and protects their privacy
So, a firewall - in the older terminology ?