AllGamer Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 As the tittle saysare there are steps i can take to find out if a torrent is poisoned or not without having to download the whole thing to find out it is a fake?I've been through that quite a bit, wasting time to download some 7~8 GB torrents to only find out they are all duds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 Search for other posts on the subject...they are numerous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Download Dick Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 Switech, if you don't reply to my last post in Bittorrent Poisoning, I can't post again, which is absurd to have zero tolerance for that. I've found something interesting (the poisoners are not siphoning off share to poison), but I can't makr the post.----Allgamer, try disabling all your IP filters temporarily (I don't know uTorrent client), then click to view the peers sorted by IP. If you see a slew within narrow ranges (blocks of IPS) then you are probably in a torrent being poisoned. That and the %completed for everyone has leveled out and it's not an old torrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllGamer Posted May 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 Thanks, that gives me something to look for i usually take precaution on many of those torrents that Goes EXTREMELY fast for no apparent reason, when originally it was going at a normal rateexample an 7GB file that takes days to download, is completed withing hours or in a day or two.i usually get very suspicious of those, and they are usually poisoned, from past experience, but by the time it happens it is too late to prevent it, and makes that entire download worthlessnext time i'll pay attention to the IP stuff, it does make sense.i just never though people will use such obvious tactic to use a slew of PCs in the same range of IPs to do the poisoning, i was always expecting something more complex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Download Dick Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 As long as you started with a valid tracker download, anything you download is CRC checked and verified as good.Poisoning does not involve you receiving as valid any invalid data.You have never received a 7Gb file in hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 Switech, if you don't reply to my last post in Bittorrent Poisoning, I can't post again, which is absurd to have zero tolerance for that. I've found something interesting (the poisoners are not siphoning off share to poison), but I can't makr the post.That's what edit is for. :] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Download Dick Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 Thank youz, Firon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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