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Unknown MG/2.1.169.0 (What is this?)


TrevorS

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I'm seeing this "client" as one of my seed peers.  Flags are IXP.  It appears to be stuck at 0.0% and my uTorrent 3.3.2 reports UL'ing 960kB, but nothing since.  Is this similar to the [FAKE] uTorrent/2.2.1.0 that occasionally shows up (presumably when some hack is trying to emulate uTorrent, often deliberately reporting bad stats in the process?)  I notice my client often reports it twice in a row, all fields identical.

 

Unknown MG/2.1.169.0

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It can't be a seed if it doesn't have 100% of the file.

Which is no longer current OR supported.

My client is doing the seeding, the "Unknown" is just a peer, one that's showing a 0.0% DL.

 

What I'm asking is whether that uTorrent assigned client designation "Unknown MG/2.1.169.0" has a specific meaning, and if so, what it is.  I see there's a client out there called MediaGet, could this be uTorrents way of flagging a mysterious version of MediaGet, just as it uses [FAKE] to flag an impersonation of itself?

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Looking at a couple MediaGet Client version designations I see 2.01.2674 and 2.01.2731, which suggests "Unknown MG/2.1.169.0" is rather old.  The [FAKE] uTorrent version numbers I've seen are also a little dated (2.2.1.0, 3.0.0.0) and my seeding client appears to be ignoring Mr Unknown MG ever since that early UL.  There are 148 seeds on this torrent and this guy still reports 0.0%, I think uTorrent has flagged him as a bad actor.  I expect to be seeding for a few days so will see if his status changes.

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