Anything better than Peer Guardian?

Conrad11 · 15 Apr 2007 at 18:37

Hi there,

Is there anything out there better than Peer Guardian?

What setup do you use?

Thanks.

electric ant · 15 Apr 2007 at 18:40

I just use the hardware firewall on router and software firewall on PC. To be honest I tried PG2 for a while but so much stuff came up, it just made me feel like I was being paranoid, so I stopped using it. I really don't think its worth running imo.

NathanE · 15 Apr 2007 at 18:41

No point using software like this unless you live in a country that actively pursues P2P users, such as the USA.

aardvark · 15 Apr 2007 at 18:48

i really only use the safepeer plugin for azureus, not that i'm doing anything dodgy of course

Energize · 15 Apr 2007 at 18:49

NathanE said:
No point using software like this unless you live in a country that actively pursues P2P users, such as the USA.

Well there have been like 2 cases of people getting fined.

Btw whatever you do make sure you uncheck "log allowed connections" otherwise you will find a 5gb text file on your c drive after a few weeks of using p2p.

electric ant · 15 Apr 2007 at 18:58

If you enable Protocol encryption (or something similar depending on torrent program), your data will be encrypted anyway.

|Ric| · 15 Apr 2007 at 19:15

electric ant said:
If you enable Protocol encryption (or something similar depending on torrent program), your data will be encrypted anyway.

Surely this is irrelevant. I imagine they set up some torrent software and try and download an illegal file and take a look at the IPs they are downloading from, of these investigate the highest bandwidth connections.
Even if the protocol is encrypted surely the torrent program makes a direct connection with the pc so the IP can still be found. You would need a third party sat in the middle to hide your IP for you.

binaryknight · 15 Apr 2007 at 23:47

|Ric| said:
Surely this is irrelevant. I imagine they set up some torrent software and try and download an illegal file and take a look at the IPs they are downloading from, of these investigate the highest bandwidth connections.
Even if the protocol is encrypted surely the torrent program makes a direct connection with the pc so the IP can still be found. You would need a third party sat in the middle to hide your IP for you.

agreed, if the tracker hosting site was got to all the traffic using that particular torrent could be shown

Trifid · 16 Apr 2007 at 08:00

|Ric| said:
Surely this is irrelevant. I imagine they set up some torrent software and try and download an illegal file and take a look at the IPs they are downloading from, of these investigate the highest bandwidth connections.

This is why I am unsure how they determine this as evidence though. A few digits separated by points written on a bit of toilet paper. Not really evidence? What do they do from here apart from the warning message they send to the ISP who is meant to forward it...

Private trackers. They will automatically block all the IP's listed in PG2.

basmic · 16 Apr 2007 at 08:19

electric ant said:
If you enable Protocol encryption (or something similar depending on torrent program), your data will be encrypted anyway.

I do this in both eMule and µTorrent.

I am behind a Linksys router, with Sygate firewall and NOD32, and PeerGuardian 2 loaded. So I hope I'm pretty safe.

zetec452 · 16 Apr 2007 at 08:44

basmic said:
I do this in both eMule and µTorrent.

I am behind a Linksys router, with Sygate firewall and NOD32, and PeerGuardian 2 loaded. So I hope I'm pretty safe.

You preparing for WW3 mate.

basmic · 16 Apr 2007 at 08:46

JonRohan said:
You preparing for WW3 mate.

Believe it or not, I see Sygate as my weak point, because it is no longer being updated.

Let's hope NOD32's new firewall is something to write home about. :cool:

Craigius · 16 Apr 2007 at 08:50

You could try protowall mate its like peerguardian i use it as i couldnt get on with peerguardian i guess its down to personal choice.

IAmATeaf · 16 Apr 2007 at 11:49

Does PG2 actually protect you then?

I was led to believe that the answer was not as the info that's gathered it what IP addresses are downloading and to do this they can simply connect to the tracker.

PG2 will stop a known IP address or range of addresses from connecting to your PC but the evidence that you were downloading based upon your IP address will still be there.

basmic · 16 Apr 2007 at 12:43

IAmATeaf said:
Does PG2 actually protect you then?

Let me put it another way - nobody has knocked at my door or sent me a letter about my file sharing activities, out of nearly 7 years.

NathanE · 16 Apr 2007 at 12:47

basmic said:
Let me put it another way - nobody has knocked at my door or sent me a letter about my file sharing activities, out of nearly 7 years.

Neither has this happened to me and I don't use anything like PeerGuardian or a firewall.

Mark M · 16 Apr 2007 at 12:49

Let me put it another way too...no one has knocked on my door in over a decade of filesharing without using any programs like this :eek:

basmic · 16 Apr 2007 at 14:16

Mark M said:
Let me put it another way too...no one has knocked on my door in over a decade of filesharing without using any programs like this

I'd rather wear a condom, than bareback the internet.

Begbie · 16 Apr 2007 at 14:21

p2p is for n00bs anyway! Rapidshare is the way forward!

Firegod · 16 Apr 2007 at 15:33

basmic said:
I'd rather wear a condom, than bareback the internet.

PMSL.