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Mass bombardment of traffic

  • 04-10-2008 8:13pm
    #1
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭


    I am running Peer Guardian 2 and So far today, "MediaSentry" has appeared over 4000 times trying to connect to my bittorrent port:eek:

    Should I be concerned?


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  • #2
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,109 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaSentry
    MediaSentry is an American company that provides services to the music recording, motion picture, television, and software industries for locating and identifying IP addresses that are engaged in the use of online networks to share material in a manner said organizations claim is in violation of copyright.

    That doesn't sound good. Find out where it is and remove it.


  • #3
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    What should I do ?


  • #4
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    I think it's stopped


  • #5
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    I've just renewed my IP

    Will that stop it?


  • #6
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    I've just renewed my IP

    Will that stop it?


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  • #7
    cl0ne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 94 ✭✭cl0ne


    Nope. You are downloading right?. I get it all the time... PG will block it.


  • #8
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    Why is it appearing?


  • #9
    MunsterCycling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,864 ✭✭✭MunsterCycling


    Do you not get it, you are torrenting so they are illegally targetting you with a scan.

    MC


  • #10
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    Don't feel you're safe just because you're using PeerGuardian. As long as you're connected to a BT tracker or using DHT they can see your IP address.


  • #11
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    Does PG2 block these scans?

    What exactly are they?


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  • #12
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    cl0ne wrote: »
    Nope. You are downloading right?. I get it all the time... PG will block it.
    Yup

    It started there and PG2 saw it so i immediatly disconnected and reconnected

    new ip, no ms


  • #13
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    MunsterCycling wrote: »
    Do you not get it, you are torrenting so they are illegally targetting you with a scan.C

    Not sure about the illegal part. if your downloading your broadcasting your IP address and port for all to see. All peer guardian does is block them from connecting to that port.


  • #14
    barnicles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭barnicles


    I am now getting the same with " Institut Blaise Pascal" on port 3886.

    ???


  • #15
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    No pain, no gain ;)


  • #16
    Shiny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,259 ✭✭✭Shiny


    MunsterCycling wrote: »
    Do you not get it, you are torrenting so they are illegally targetting you with a scan.

    MC

    They are not scanning.

    What they do is host the very stuff you are downloading on very fast
    servers. So when you connect to the tracker, it sees these servers and
    gets the data from them.

    But the data is corrupt. They purposely host the this type of data to
    try and disrupt your downloading as much as possible. In essence you could
    be downloading something that is say 1gig in size but by the time your
    torrent program has identified all the sources of bad data you might already
    have downloaded 2/3 gigs of bad data.

    They most likely record your IP address also. If peer guardian doesn't block
    them the first time round, your torrent program will eventually block them
    on a file by file basis.


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