narashima Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Hi Guys, I am big fan of utorrent. After switching over to vista I am not able to use PEer guardian. I was wondering what ppl using utorrent are doing to get around this? Does utorrent have a built-in ip blocking feature?Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 Yep. Use ipfilter.dat, save it in AppData folder where are resume.dat, settings.dat etc..Right click on peer list (peer tab) and select IP blocking (watch log to check). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted October 31, 2008 Report Share Posted October 31, 2008 And realise that such blocklists are only good at blocking known bad-data poisoners, not the *AA's monitoring groups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Yeah, they're pretty much useless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kissenger Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 If ipfilter.dat in only works to prevent bad-data poisoners, what should we do to stop AA groups. In other words, what is a good substitute for Peerguardian if you're using Vista? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 peerguardian doesn't protect you from the *AA groups anyway.Nothing except not downloading content monitored by them protects you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelittlefire Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 PeerGuardian isn't the problem. It does what it advertises. UNFORTUNATELY its peerlsts are provided by organization with little actual ability to effectively "filter" what it advertises. Data collection doesn't need to be from company IPs. Companies prosecuting filesharers don't even need to connect to you to bring you to court. Therefore people who use PEERGUARDIAN OR BLUETACK blocklists thinking "i'm safe" are in a fantasy world.If you want to use a blocklist, make it compatible with uT's ipfilter.dat protocol, don't use an external program. If you notice peers with suspicious behavior including 0% bad data or weird versions, add their ranges yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Add these ranges to your ipfilter.dat:http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=359711#p359711These are pretty much the confirmed poisoners...though no doubt there's more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 The only way to protect yourself from copyright enforcement groups is to stop pirating. I'm being quite serious.No IPfilter list in existence will do the job.VPNs can give you a degree of anonymity, but that relies on the people running it not giving up any of your info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogly Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Yeah stop pirating ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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