vista 64bit peergaurdian woes

craptakular · 23 Oct 2008 at 19:32

lo,

Kinda given up on trying to install peergaurdian 2 on vista 64bit.

Is there any flaw in my plan to install XP inside virtualbox, install utorrent and then run peergaurdian inside the XP O/S virtualbox?

Will I still be blocking the Ip's or will "it" know I'm running utorrent through virtualbox?

IS there a vista 64bit alternative to peergaurdian 2?

NathanE · 23 Oct 2008 at 20:21

Why do you (or anyone) bother with this crappy software? :confused:

craptakular · 23 Oct 2008 at 20:26

cos it blocks ips, better than nothing?

are u saying it doesnt do anything?

Rebelius · 23 Oct 2008 at 20:29

i think he's saying buy stuff, dont steal it.

NathanE · 23 Oct 2008 at 20:33

All I'm saying is what is the point in blocking IPs on a BitTorrent network? Unless you live in America there is very very little point. Seriously.

The RIAA and MPAA have no jurisdiction here.

If you really want to... there are plenty of BitTorrent clients that support IP blacklisting. Azureus does. I'm sure Utorrent does as well.

craptakular · 23 Oct 2008 at 20:59

Rebelius said:
i think he's saying buy stuff, dont steal it.

P2P isnt illegal though, I just download a lot of linux distro's!

^JP^ · 23 Oct 2008 at 21:01

Oxy said:
P2P isnt illegal though, I just download a lot of linux distro's!

lol yeah right

craptakular · 23 Oct 2008 at 21:02

^JP^ said:
lol yeah right

how dare u accuse me of lying!

IAmATeaf · 23 Oct 2008 at 21:51

As far as I understand it PeerGuardian stops somebody from connecting to your PC so they can't download from you but it doesn't stop them from harvesting IP addresses, including yours from a torrent client if the client is told by the tracker that you exist as connectable on a torrent.

I've seen plenty of reports of people using this app still getting letters so maybe it's more of a feel good app?

Rebelius · 23 Oct 2008 at 22:00

Oxy said:
P2P isnt illegal though, I just download a lot of linux distro's!

why do you want to hide your IP?

Clairvoyant · 23 Oct 2008 at 22:12

Why not use something to change your ip (I dont know if that is possible)

craptakular · 23 Oct 2008 at 22:16

Rebelius said:
why do you want to hide your IP?

privacy

Coolasmoo · 23 Oct 2008 at 22:37

Its a pain, but just F8 on startup and disable driver signing

It will work fine then

lsg1r · 23 Oct 2008 at 22:38

just for reference there is a reason why you're having issues installing peerguardian (2) - taken from the site

Note: PeerGuardian 2 does not support Windows Vista at the moment. This is a top priority, and we hope to have a Vista download soon.

It's been like that for well over a year now, unless theres some beta's I don't know of.

Coolasmoo · 23 Oct 2008 at 22:39

lsg1r said:
j unless theres some beta's I don't know of.

RC2

NathanE · 24 Oct 2008 at 10:53

Oxy said:
privacy

It isn't hiding your IP though. BitTorrent trackers will still advertise your IP address to everyone... it's just that when those people then try to connect PeerGuardian will block them if its on its black list.

It's a waste of time. It's protecting you from nothing and your level of privacy is completely unchanged.