Comments on: PeerBlock: avoid detection when downloading from torrent or p2p networks

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:39:42 +0000

@Predator: Dick has a point, man, in torrent there’s no shareware or trial, coz “all” apps there are packed with the crack.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:37:05 +0000

Does this app reduce my torrent download speed?

By: none

none — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:00:20 +0000

Funny that this very website triggers Anti-P2P connections that are blocked by PeerBlock…
75.101.212.227:80
184.73.55.124:80

By: Predator

Predator — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:28:01 +0000

@6 Dick.

“But go ahead, run down to the police, and then tell them that you stole the “shareware” from a torrent site, ”

You are really really a dick head are you?

he did not steal the shareware you moron! I don’t think you know what a shareware is.

You are one of the worst idiot that humanity ever generated.

By: Toni

Toni — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 20:02:07 +0000

I used Peerguardian in the past in connection with both Limewire and Frostwire. I never had anu trouble but when I looked at the list of sources it blocked there seemed to be a lot of organisations and companies on it which tried to track illegal downloads. I don’t know about PeerBlock but PeerGuardian had to be switched of when surfing the internet. It slowed down browsing or blocked sites for no apparent reason.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:57:53 +0000

Sadies1010, nah man. there isn’t a way to find out. But if you want to see the Ip’s that have been blocked and/or allowed following the installation, your peerblock log.

By: Sadies1010

Sadies1010 — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:57:20 +0000

just installed Peer Blocker. Anyway to find out what IP’s connected to me prior to the installation??

By: Yatti420

Yatti420 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:34:42 +0000

Peerblock is a must have!!

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1. Install\Update to latest µTorrent build.. (1.8.* or 1.9*) ((µTorrent 2.0 optional))

2. Ensure ports are forwarded for bit torrent.. (non standard port recommended)

3. Options >> Preferences >> Advanced >> bt.transp_disposition set to 255

4. >> Bit Torrent > Protocol Encryption > Outgoing: Forced >> Check Allow Legacy Connections..

5. >> Connection >> Set µTorrent forwarded port..

6. >> General >> Associate µTorrent associations >> Install IPV6

7. Click OK..

8. Go to speed guide >> Set you speed profile appropriately..

9. Vista \ Windows 7 – Start > Run *(win-r)* = services.msc

10. Set IP Helper Service to Automatic and ensure it is started..

11. Restart µtorrent.. Ensure port is forwarded and enjoy..

-OPTIONAL SECURITY-

Highly recommended for security.

sites.google.c0m-site-whitehat2k9-Home-my-programs-utorrent-ipfilter-updater (Easy To Use!)

Utilize an ipfilter.dat or program to limit who can connect to your computer!..

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And\Or

http://www.peerblock.com/

New fork of the PeerGuardian2 project.. ** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!**

PeerBlock lets you control who your computer “talks to” on the Internet. By selecting appropriate lists of “known bad” computers, you can block communication with advertising or spyware oriented servers, computers monitoring your p2p activities, computers which have been “hacked”, even entire countries! They can’t get in to your computer, and your computer won’t try to send them anything either.

And best of all, it’s free!

By: Prevent undesirable connections « My Studies …

Prevent undesirable connections « My Studies … — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:15:09 +0000

By: Samer

Samer — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:23:02 +0000

@ WolvenSpectre: thanks for sharing this story. Wow.. what a malicious scheme you stumbled into.
It is true that I de-emphasized the anti malware aspect of this program in favor of the “downloading torrents without detection” part (although I did mention the anti malware/antispyware function both in the description and again in the body of the text). The reason for this is that this is my primary interest in this software, and I expected that that would be the draw for most readers as well.

Samer

By: PeerBlock – Safer P2P - The Red Ferret Journal

PeerBlock – Safer P2P - The Red Ferret Journal — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:46:53 +0000

[...] PeerBlock is a little piece of software that you run in parallel with your torrent software that stops it connecting to peers in suspect IP addresses. It’s not just for safer peer-to-peer downloading, you can also use it to prevent your PC from accessing ad-servers, or a range of addresses belonging to entire countries. The software doesn’t guarantee anonymity or protection or anything like that but as some band once said, it’s just another brick in the wall. [Via Freeware Genius] [...]

By: Dick

Dick — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:54:40 +0000

WolvenSpectre, your American company that you could have taken to the police probably suffers from the very same trojan that attempted to take over your computer. There are script kiddies all over the world that have very large networks of bots, and they use these machines to go after other machines. But go ahead, run down to the police, and then tell them that you stole the “shareware” from a torrent site, and see how quickly they go after your vicious American attacker.

Good luck.

By: WolvenSpectre

WolvenSpectre — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:22:03 +0000

There is a good reason for one of these programs all the time and it is one not listed in the article which is a real shame. That is to protect yourself from attacks and malware.

I have been a PeerGuardian2 user for some time and have a personal story about why I run it all the time unless I am have to temporarily disable it because of conflicts.

I was sent a legitimate file from a friend across the country and it was a DVD of mostly junk and funny things he’d accumulated. To download it it was too big for the email middleman services and Pando, so I asked him to torrent it. To save me download time he made an image file using some commercial shareware program that compressed the image into a proprietary format I had never seen.

After some research I found out what I needed to open it, and that it was pay. I went to the site and their trial version link was down. A moderator told me to download it from their torrent tracker and I did.

That was a mistake. The link went to a pirated version with a little extra payload inside posted on SumoTorrents (had never heard of them). Apparently the board’s posts were hacked.

When installed the malware called the mothership through port80 and said “I’m here!!!” and then another part executed some code then tried to connect back to a bot net as a zombie, probably awaiting orders.

Peer Guardian stopped that. The mothership was trying to contact their malware and Peer Guardian blocked that because it already had the mothership’s IP ranges. They were both using known malware sites, but a range of addresses I had added to avoid a certain known source of unauthorized hardware and software scans.

I couldn’t get rid of the malware, and to add insult to injury the Disk Imaging Software didn’t work on the image I download. I was unable to rebuild my machine for a week so I watched as the mothership and the malware would try again and again and fail to get past peer guardian. Then it got really malicious.

I then suffered a DDoS attack on my personal computer from hundreds if not a thousand IP addresses all co-ordinated to flood my bandwidth and contact the malware.

I then went back in my logs to grep who was sending this originally and to my surprise I found out publicly who owned the mothership, and it was an American Company that was fairly well known at the time. I don’t want to mention names but lets just say the media industries were very familiar with this company and its practices.

I am Canadian and if I had taken this to the police with the evidence I had could technically had the owners of the company extradited because of the cybersecurity laws on both sides of the border at the time. I really didn’t want to get pulled into that to I got a new IP and Network Card (They targeted my MAC too).

I haven’t told people online the name of the company because I want to avoid lawsuits and accusations, but PeerGuardian 2 saved my butt on several occasions.

By: jfjb

jfjb — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:35:02 +0000

You go, Samer!

I second your opinion all the way, and then some.
One more necessity out of the (search) way.

No need to mention the super light and powerful µTorrent, right?

Surf’s up, dudes and dudettes!

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:21:05 +0000

Found the program a few months ago, but now that they have the signed driver, it can finally be used on Windows 7 64 bit And keeping it running is actually not a bad idea: I am amazed how much it filters out. All kinds of MediaSentry pings etc.

Still, it’s great, yet stil only a thin layer of security, so don’t put too much faith in it either

By: Carbonize

Carbonize — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:09:39 +0000

To be honest there is no real reason for this program to be constantly running. Most P2P programs have a ip filter list that this program could quite easily just update when you run it much the way SpyBlaster does for web browsers. At present I just download the iptable files from http://bit.ly/uUnQw and put it in my uTorrent folder.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:02:07 +0000

Thanks so much for writing about this program. I’ve been having a lot of trouble with PeerGuardian recently, especially the lists not getting downloaded correctly. It’s nice to see someone else picking up development where they left off.