ashwin.terminator Posted October 27, 2012 Report Share Posted October 27, 2012 I recently hopped on to Windows 8 Professional through the Dreamspark Premium channel. I'm thoroughly enjoying myself except for one simple problem. Every private tracker I use on uTorrent gives me one simple error - 'Tracker Sending Invalid Data'. I tried with Vuze, but similar results. I disabled Windows Firewall, no difference. I installed Avast Free and Comodo Free Firewall after that which is the exact same config I used on Windows 7 Ultimate before I made the switch. But to no avail, it's the exact same thing. Surprisingly, public trackers work just fine! I googled around but am unable to find a suitable solution. Hence, here I am, asking for your assistance on the matter.Could someone please tell me how this error can be made to vamoosh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted October 27, 2012 Report Share Posted October 27, 2012 Tell the people who run the tracker, as you have already demonstrated, it is nothing to do with uTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashwin.terminator Posted October 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Hmmm, but the problem isn't specific to one private tracker. Every private tracker reports the same error. Surely there can't be an issue with all private trackers right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 If the problem persists across multiple clients, the problem is either with the tracker(s) or your machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashwin.terminator Posted October 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Well, it's rather unlikely the problem is with the trackers. What could be the issue with the machine? Any particular settings on Windows 8 that could be the problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashwin.terminator Posted October 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Update: Same error with Vuze as well. And same error with uTorrent 3.1.3 and the present Beta version as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Still something on your machine or something on the sites you're using. It's not uTorrent.Proxy settings, Internet provider or internet security software are likely to blame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashwin.terminator Posted October 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Still something on your machine or something on the sites you're using. It's not uTorrent.Proxy settings, Internet provider or internet security software are likely to blame.Well, that sounds appropriate enough. Any idea what settings I should look out for? Never really knew private trackers have a different approach to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 ...Proxy settings, Internet provider or internet security software are likely to blame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashwin.terminator Posted October 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 I don't have any proxy settings.My ISP doesn't care about P2P and I've already checked the most obvious Firewall settings that might've caused this problem.I was asking for anything specific to Private Trackers that might be causing the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 A tracker, is a tracker, is a tracker, there are no technical differences between a "private" or a "public"It may be that the tracker is sending "invalid data" because the torrent you are trying to use has been "leaked".Are you a registered member of the site that the tracker is run by? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashwin.terminator Posted October 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 Yes, I am a registered member of the site. Anyway, I think I got this sorted out.Avast's Network Shield seems to be causing the problem. I'll just clarify that in a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 SoStill something on your machine or ... internet security software are likely to blame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashwin.terminator Posted October 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 SoStill something on your machine or ... internet security software are likely to blame.Yes indeed. I don't remember singling out this option on Windows 7, oh well, atleast the problem was solved! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demlasjr Posted October 29, 2012 Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 Confirmed. Two days ago I started getting "Tracker is sending invalid data: ." on a tracker. All others trackers worked just well, but one failed. I start checking everything in my pc and finally found that Network Shield from Avast Antivirus was the one creating me this issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartusJK Posted October 30, 2012 Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Excellent, a clear definite answer to hours of trying to work out an extremely annoying and restrictive problem ......... only thing now is if there is a solution, its obviously a useful added protection to have this network shield but is there some way to have it active AND still get private trackers working?? Done a bit of googling and doesn't seem possible but maybe someone clever here can see a way?(be interesting to know - and might help solve it - what caused this sudden change, was that it related to upgrading to Win 8 pro or just coincidence??) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashwin.terminator Posted October 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 Excellent, a clear definite answer to hours of trying to work out an extremely annoying and restrictive problem ......... only thing now is if there is a solution, its obviously a useful added protection to have this network shield but is there some way to have it active AND still get private trackers working?? Done a bit of googling and doesn't seem possible but maybe someone clever here can see a way?(be interesting to know - and might help solve it - what caused this sudden change, was that it related to upgrading to Win 8 pro or just coincidence??)The funny thing being, Avast's Network Shield Log doesn't show that any connections were blocked! 0 connections were blocked out of the 27000 connections that it scanned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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