User-Agent (Mozilla) interfearing with uTorrent...

[sannyman]

Dear Sirs,

Since yesterday I got a very annoying issue with uTorrent: I had two downloads from two different trackers, one got stocked at a certain percentage, and the other never started.

At "Tracker Status" I got:

- Tracker a.) "Tracker Sending Invalid Data: Direct Access Not Allowed"

- Tracker b.) "Failure: torrent not registered with this tracker". Please exclude the absence of the torrent on the tracker, I triple checked this path.

Being unable to do ANYTHING with uTorrent, I begun tracking the problem: firstly, I opened the link provided in the "Tracker URL" in my browser, Mozilla.

I got from tracker a.) DIRECT ACCESS NOT ALLOWED and from tracker b.) the following: "d14:failure reason40:torrent not registered with this trackere

"

My first deduction was that something is stripping the request, so in a second phase, I was tracking the http protocol used by uTorrent: in case of tracker a.) was SOMEHOW looking "normal":

HTTP GET /announce.php?passkey=faf4ff2577a9ed52d6ec9ed14a0e511d&info_hash=%ee%0a%0f%e7%2b%7cB2%d3%80%dc%40%ae%85f%5e7%9d%9d%8c&peer_id=-UT1600-%da%81%16G%800iQ%0eg%8a%82&port=11921&uploaded=0&downloaded=0&left=368285696

Going forward and tracking the TCP protocol I got this:

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

0000 54 47 45 54 20 2F 61 6E 6E-6F 75 6E 63 65 2E 70 68 GET /announce.ph

0010 70 70 3F 70 61 73 73 6B 65-79 3D 66 61 66 34 66 66 p?passkey=faf4ff

0020 86 32 35 37 37 61 39 65 64-35 32 64 36 65 63 39 65 2577a9ed52d6ec9e

0030 102 64 31 34 61 30 65 35 31-31 64 26 69 6E 66 6F 5F d14a0e511d&info_

0040 118 68 61 73 68 3D 25 65 65-25 30 61 25 30 66 25 65 hash=%ee%0a%0f%e

0050 134 37 25 32 62 25 37 63 42-32 25 64 33 25 38 30 25 7%2b%7cB2%d3%80%

0060 150 64 63 25 34 30 25 61 65-25 38 35 66 25 35 65 37 dc%40%ae%85f%5e7

0070 166 25 39 64 25 39 64 25 38-63 26 70 65 65 72 5F 69 %9d%9d%8c&peer_i

0080 182 64 3D 2D 55 54 31 36 30-30 2D 25 64 61 25 38 31 d=-UT1600-%da%81

0090 198 25 31 36 47 25 38 30 30-69 51 25 30 65 67 25 38 %16G%800iQ%0eg%8

00A0 214 61 25 38 32 26 70 6F 72-74 3D 31 31 39 32 31 26 a%82&port=11921&

00B0 230 75 70 6C 6F 61 64 65 64-3D 30 26 64 6F 77 6E 6C uploaded=0&downl

00C0 246 6F 61 64 65 64 3D 30 26-6C 65 66 74 3D 33 36 38 oaded=0&left=368

00D0 262 32 38 35 36 39 36 26 6B-65 79 3D 35 32 37 39 35 285696&key=52795

00E0 278 33 39 30 26 65 76 65 6E-74 3D 73 74 61 72 74 65 390&event=starte

00F0 294 64 26 6E 75 6D 77 61 6E-74 3D 32 30 30 26 63 6F d&numwant=200&co

0100 310 6D 70 61 63 74 3D 31 26-6E 6F 5F 70 65 65 72 5F mpact=1&no_peer_

0110 326 69 64 3D 31 20 48 54 54-50 2F 31 2E 31 0D 0A 48 id=1 HTTP/1.1..H

0120 342 6F 73 74 3A 20 74 72 61-63 6B 65 72 2E 62 69 74 ost: tracker.find

0130 358 6D 65 74 76 2E 6F 72 67-0D 0A 55 73 65 72 2D 41 itby-yourself.!!!..User-A

0140 374 67 65 6E 74 3A 20 20 4D-6F 7A 69 6C 6C 61 2F 34 gent: Mozilla/4

0150 390 2E 30 20 0D 0A 41 63 63-65 70 74 2D 45 6E 63 6F .0 ..Accept-Enco

0160 406 64 69 6E 67 3A 20 67 7A-69 70 0D 0A 0D 0A ding: gzip....

HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Please let me know how I can get rid of the User Agent appendix that makes uTorrent unusable…

Thank you very much in advance!

With best regards,

San

Edit:

I have the complete log of the session, if you need it, just let me know.

Thank you!

[Ultima]

O.o

Do you use any kind of proxy or filtering software...?

[sannyman]

Dear all,

Finally here is my own solution...!

I found the problem. I have installed a software product called Spy Emergency 2006 antispyware from Netgate, but the software provider may have other URL, certainly is that the product has it's web site (http://www.spy-emergency.com/)

As you can see here there are two settings that affect the "normal" behavior of the computer. I do not know which one, but certainly with both options disabled, you can use bittorrent clients again and to run the resident part of Spy Emergency 2006.

Strange, but it happens. Thanks God I was able to trace it to the roots...!

Once again, thank you very much for your attention and I hope to help others as well!

With best regards,

San