Comments on: PeerGuardian PG alternative, ipfilter + utorrent, ipfilter.dat

By: Calopolus

Calopolus — Sat, 01 May 2010 05:02:43 +0000

Thanks a bunch, your taking the time to help people is worth it! A lot of lives better because of you

By: Aleksandr Oreshkin

Aleksandr Oreshkin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:55:32 +0000

I suggest you get peerblock: http://peerblock.com
these things only block certain ip ranges though..

to hide your ip you should run a firewall, I recommend Kaspersky, or Outpost, Zone alarm, etc…

By: Kapil

Kapil — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:56:12 +0000

i want my own IP address to be blocked. i dont care about anyone else. also what should i use to block my IP address for downloading through websites and not torrents?

By: Aleksandr

Aleksandr — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:11:36 +0000

You are much safer running with ipfilter than not. Keep in mind, it only blocks the provided IP range in ipfilter.dat, any other IP may is allowed. Given that you are on a college network I recommend you get Blocklist Manager and download the list which includes EDU and government institutions.

By: Kapil

Kapil — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:54:37 +0000

does this work for sure? does my IP address get blocked by doing so? is it safe to use this is colleges in the US?

By: admin

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:16:09 +0000

Hello abi,
Make sure you have installed and ran utorrent at least once, it should create that directory.

Navigate to your run menu, type %appdata%, and there should be a “utorrent” folder.

There may be a chance the folder is “hidden”, if this is a case simply entering “%appdata%/utorrent” without quotes should take you there.

If you still cannot find it, use Locate32 ( http://locate32.net/files/exe/locate32-x64-3.0.7.7010.exe ) and let it index your harddrive, then simply search for utorrent , inside the folder should be webui.zip.

Hope this solves your issue

By: abi

abi — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:21:31 +0000

I dont have C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\uTorrent or its XP equivalent of C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\uTorrent

Im using vista business 64bit

so how does my utorrent then connect to this .dat file?

By: toasted

toasted — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:31:12 +0000

Sure, this is a good alternative until PG2 becomes Vista/Windows7 compatible…..but the bad thing is, PG2 is still great, because it can log “all” connection attempts.

If you were to get one of those C&D letters from the corps…those logs can come in handy, particularly, the logs of “allowed” connections….because, it’s not the “blocked” connections that “caught” you red-handed – but the connections that were “allowed” that were able to snag a couple of bytes for “proof” that you were distributing illegal/copyprotected content, and then persuit it in a court of law/C&D motion/etc….

Just a word of caution.

Note: I always wear a tiny foil hat when my p2p app is running! :)

By: NyaR

NyaR — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:13:22 +0000

you will have to check manually at the said website, it says the date it was updated ;(

By: J Tricky

J Tricky — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:21:52 +0000

Hi,

Thanks again for your advice I am having the same problem as sixdoublefive321 with PG so I took the steps for nipfilter.dat.gz and put it in my utorrent I believe it is working correctly but I am also very new to all of this and I was wondering if you could tell me how I make sure that my nipfiliter remains up to date.

Thanks