peerguardian

[azack]

my peerguardian has stopped updating anyone else seeing this?

[bsf]

Peerguardian is worthless, if you are that worried, never go on public trackers or use an offshore seedbox/vpn.

[pussyliicker]

True, i wouldnt worry about using peerguardian inless your in a remote country that put's you in Jail For using torrent's Either way it's mostly the mass uploader's & torrent site's they go After 1st : )

[jcasas392]

i seriously stopped using peerguardian about 10 minutes after first activating it.

[Ti-Fan]

well some people say it helps..others say it doesn't :)
others say it blocks only less than 1% of actually bad IPs.. ur call:P

PS: i just updated.everything seems fine..

[azack]

cool well thanks for all the input back
do you guy use ipfilter for utorrent?
i need to research offshore seedbox/vpn i dont know to much about it

[pussyliicker]

Stay Safe,Away from the "Pirate Police"

Well I know that many of you are worried about the MPAA and the RIAA(or who I like to call the “Pirate Police”. So I wrote this guide telling you ways to help prevent them from catching you.I have a few things to get straight with you first.

1. Never be Scared from the “Pirate Police”.
2.Never be Intimidated by the “Pirate Police”.
3.Never Give in to the “Pirate Police”
4.Listen to what Markup has to say or you just might have to pay one day.(Damn,When I said pay it had double meanings )

Ok,for some of you folks Piracy is legal in your country(Lucky… <_< ) But for many others you could have to pay thousands of dollars and/or jail time(I think so at least). So this is my advice to you.

1.If you get a letter from your ISP(Internet Service Provider)then Ignore it,But lay low for a while,maybe a month or even longer.They should list the copyrighted movie that you downloaded.Go and buy a copy of it just for added security.

2.Get a dynamic IP Address. While this doesn’t protect you completely from them,it still will help out.Just in case you don’t know what the difference between a Dynamic and a Static Ip address is I will give a brief explanation. Remember that this is a very brief comparison and there is more to it than this. A dynamic ip address changes and a static ip address stays the same. Do not make fun of my short comparison because I have too much to write in this guide.So you may ask yourself,How do I get a dynamic ip address? The answer is to give your ISP a call. Well Some ISP’s will allow them for free,some will give them to you for a small price and some won’t give them to you at all.The reason why a dynamic ip address will give you a tad more privacy is because it changes. Also keep in mind that if you have a dynamic ip you pretty much cannot be banned by ip address on most trackers.

3.Get Peerguardian. If you want to know more about Peerguardian then use google or ask around.I honestly do not know much about it.But I do know what it basically does.It will pretty much let you choose the ip addresses that you want to block out.So you might want to pick up Peerguardian.

4.Some Settings on Utorrent Need to be turned off.Make sure that you turn off Peer Exchange and DHT.

5.The “Pirate Police” Upload many fake torrents to trackers designed to catch you.They even pretend to be famous release groups such as aXXo and Pukka.Don’t think that just because you are on a private tracker that they can’t get in.Use http://www.fenopy.com/fakefinder to find fake torrents and fake trackers.

6.Don’t download from places like TorrentSpy or even public trackers.TorrentSpy has to give out a list of all of the IP Addresses that visit there.They hand them out to the “Pirate Police”. Public Trackers are just way too dangerous. Anyone can upload there.So The “Pirate Police” Can upload anything they want.

That should help you a bit more if you haven’t done those things.Stay Safe!

[pussyliicker]

How to enable IP Filter in Utorrent
I recently discovered that uTorrent has a built in IP Filter function, which is just like Peer Guardian.

From what I read the function will help uTorrent prevent anti-p2p agencies spying on you and sending you bad packets when downloading/uploading.

The function reads IP’s from a text file that is in the c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\utorrent\” directory.

So far it seems to be working pretty well, a little to well in my opinion. It blocks about 4 to 10 IP’s every minute.

I was wondering who all else uses this function and what they think about it.

To create your own ipfilter.dat
[Vista friendly guide]

Below is a script that you will need to copy into notepad, edit the save location to match your ipfilter.dat location, then save it as a .vbs file. If you want you can just run the file you save periodically or you can create a scheduled task to run the update as often as you would like. When you run the file nothing will happen for a little bit. But once it has finished downloading you will get a dialog box letting you know it is done.

‘===DemoGetImageStream.vbs===
‘
‘Requires:
‘
‘ - IE 5+ for “Microsoft.XMLHTTP”
‘ - ADO 2.5+ for “adodb.stream”
‘
sSrcUrl = “http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/emulepawcio/”
sDestFolder = “c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\utorrent\”
sImageFile = “ipfilter.dat”

set oHTTP = WScript.CreateObject(”Microsoft.XMLHTTP”)

oHTTP.open “GET”, sSrcUrl & sImageFile, False
oHTTP.send

set oStream = createobject(”adodb.stream”)
Const adTypeBinary = 1
Const adSaveCreateOverWrite = 2
oStream.type = adTypeBinary
oStream.open
oStream.write oHTTP.responseBody
oStream.savetofile sDestFolder & sImageFile, adSaveCreateOverWrite

set oStream = nothing
set oHTTP = nothing

WScript.Echo “Done…”

To schedule a task in Windows Vista:

Click the start globe and search for Task Scheduler
Click Create Basic Task and click Next
I recommend selecting Weekly but you can choose daily or monthly if you prefer
Select which day and at what time you want the task to run
Select Start a Program
Select your Script
Click Finish

Enable ipfilter in uTorrent

1. Have file created from script to the directory C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\utorrent.
2. Open uTorrent
3. Click Options
4. Click Preferences
5. Click Advanced
6. Make sure ipfilter.enable = true;
7. If ipfilter.enable was false you will have to restart uTorrent after changing it to true.
8. Click logger tab
9. Notice in log “Loaded ipfilter.dat (2##,### entries)

Done!

Now as you download/upload you will notice in the logger tab “IpFilter blocked peer ##.###.##.###”.
This is the ipfilter.dat doing its job.
Congrats!

[Arsener]

I never used peerguardian because I never needed to . But it's a great piece of software , especially because it's open source .

[azack]

ya ip filter and Peerguardian are what i have been doing, might want to watch out on thepiratebay my last ISP got me 2 times uploading to there, nothing big happend i told them my wifi was unsecure and they had be back up in no time, but only private trackers for me now thanks for the help pussyliicker and everyone else

[liquidsoda]

are there any peerguardian alternatives? i currently using an vista and peerguardian doesn't seem to work at all..

[azack]

use ipfilter just do a search most sites have it now, also make sure to get the updater for it