Anyone used this before?

I was downloading something over the weekend and noticing a lot of rubbish data coming through, so I dug around for a bit and it seems there's some companies out there bombarding torrents with borked data, MediaSentry was the company I heard mentioned the most, so most people suggested I try Peer Guardian 2 which is basically a free little firewall with a list of IPs to block from known media companies and anti peer to peer companies. So anyway I grabbed it and installed it and it's working a treat, and looking at the list of IPs and companies it's blocking when I try and download something it's quite scary when you see the list of IPs it's actively blocking at one time.

i have heard of this and always wondered about its use. were you downloading via bit torrent? does it improve torrent speeds?

I was using bitcomet

it didn't improve speed as in Kb/s but it blocked IPs from borked seed/peers so hence it was faster to download because it wasn't downloading a heap of junk data

obviously you cannot rely on this for 100% p2p prosecution immunity for a variety of reasons not limited to the fact that it's a blacklist and blacklists are always one step behind.

true but it's better than nothing

i might give it a whirl. are there daily updates to the ip list or something similar?

yeah you can update however often you like, I set mine to every day

I gave it a quick whirl, but when it blocks things like the WoW Launcher and s***, relatively annoying have to set it up to allow those things but i guess whatever tickles your pickles.

I've been using if for ages it's protects you from worms as well but of course it's always one step behind.

I tried it out once for something and it started blocking access to my internal LAN, the valve secure servers and a whole bunch of other stuff that I'm guessing has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with downloading shizzle from the internizzle. Eventually I just deleted it because I got sick of having to figure out the IP's to tell it not to block.

I'm guessing it's something you only activate when you're leeching and leaving your PC on overnight for it

If you're downloading shady stuff of torrent, Always, Always use Peer guardian. Been using it for years now, It is scary though to look at the list of blocked IP adresses.

But just a slight warning. Even all of you small time users, They do look at what you're downloading. I used to download a little. Was download the Game 'The Hulk' A few years back. About 20 minutes in my internet cuts out, Can't do anything to get it back. Rang optus to find out the problems. And we got busted for uploading the hulk. So that was our first and final warning.

i've been using it for ages now, i use peerguardian 2 and bitlord and it works pretty good :D

i use pg2 with a custom list, (that i found on some guys blog that was pissed off), added that targets ips that are trying to corrupt shows from time warner and fox (such as the OC and prison break). works a treat.

Just installed it so I hope it does something useful for me and my precious torrents.

8-)

I can't find a single torrent in my list of the past 6 months that has any data downloaded that didn't pass the hash test and was dumped - all say 0, or at least only a few kb. I don't see the need.

it's your PC, do what you want, but even for torrents that I wasn't getting any junk data you get incoming connections from all sorts of companies wanting to see what you're up to

Does it still use stacks of cpu and RAM?