JayDogg Posted July 23, 2008 Report Share Posted July 23, 2008 Why would Utorrent be trying to access a SMTP server located in South Africa to send Email? I have been unable to find any option in the program to enable or disable such a feature... Does anyone have a clue?? I've pasted the log info below.Filename uTorrent.exe Program Version 1.8.0.11564 Program MD5 869ff9c2566ec21fd3891c3a6f36b87a Smart Checksum 47c5469c92d210ba777e79cd7ed9e7fa Date Modified Jul-23-2008 02:22:06 PM Connect Type Access Remote Port 25 Remote IP Address 196.210.4.2 Whois Information OrgName: African Network Information Center OrgID: AFRINICAddress: 03B3 - 3rd Floor - Ebene Cyber TowerAddress: Cyber CityAddress: EbeneAddress: MauritiusCity: EbeneStateProv: PostalCode: 0001Country: MUReferralServer: whois://whois.afrinic.netNetRange: 196.0.0.0 - 196.255.255.255 CIDR: 196.0.0.0/8 NetName: NET196NetHandle: NET-196-0-0-0-0Parent: NetType: Allocated to AfriNICNameServer: NS1.AFRINIC.NETNameServer: NS-SEC.RIPE.NETNameServer: NS.LACNIC.NETNameServer: TINNIE.ARIN.NETNameServer: SEC1.APNIC.NETNameServer: SEC3.APNIC.NETComment: RegDate: 1993-05-01Updated: 2006-04-27OrgAbuseHandle: GENER11-ARINOrgAbuseName: Generic POC OrgAbusePhone: +230 4666616OrgAbuseEmail: abusepoc@afrinic.netEDIT... OK, I found another post... and I read the link to the FAQ... allright then... but I'm still not gonna let the program access any system via the SMTP port... just in case. Better to be safe than have Brighthouse lock my connection down. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 If it really worries you that uTorrent is sending BitTorrent traffic on the same port as emails...probably to some poor sucker who can ONLY receive on that port...THEN...You can block that port using uTorrent's advanced settings:bt.no_connect_to_services = TRUEbt.no_connect_to_services_list = whatever port numbers you want blocked, with each separated by a comma like this:0,25,115,65535 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 That person might need that port Anyway, I have Brighthouse, and they haven't troubled me over allowing that activity. The only problem I have had was crappy AVG anti-virus corrupting the data with its mail scanner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayDogg Posted July 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Thanks Switeck thats a great tip... I'm gonna do that... plus I blocked the port thru my firewall. I never thought about the antivirus email scanner messing things up. I feel bad for the poor soul stuck behind a firewall who has to spoof his bittorrent traffic onto an smtp port just to get thru... I am so lucky :-)Thanks Guys!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 I still don't see any point in blocking it really...after all, the real dangers now typically don't come on the email port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hermanm Posted July 24, 2008 Report Share Posted July 24, 2008 Did you download utorrent.exe from this site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted July 25, 2008 Report Share Posted July 25, 2008 Just a false positive. No harm in allowing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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