Torrent Security 'Help', 'Hints'

First lets start with a couple of utilities you may need at a later date or even during the review and stall of your security protocols

IP Address Lookup & Trace:


Second Review These Highly Recommended Security Downloads!

• PeerGuardian2! - Bad IP and IP-Range List Security Program highly recommended by us!
  
• Avast! Online Scanner
  
• Declude - Software - Security Suite for IMail and SmarterMail
  
• Mailprotector - Managed Service - Hands off approach to Email security. Clean and forward service built on Declude's comprehensive technology.
  
• BitDefender Online Scanner
  
• Computer Cops - UDP Port Scan Test
  
• eTrust Antivirus Web Scanner
  
• F-Secure Online Virus Scanner
  
• Kaspersky - Free Online Virus Scan
  
• Live OneCare - Clean Up Scan
  
• Live OneCare - Protection Scan
  
• Live OneCare - Tune Up Scan
  
• Live OneCare - Full Service Scan
  
• McAfee - Free Scan
  
• Microsoft - Malicious Software Removal Tool
  
• Microsoft - Windows Update
  
• Panda Software - ActiveScan
  
• Symantec - Security Check
  
• Webroot - Free Spy Audit

Personal Security:

PeerGuardian 2

Phoenix Labs The Creators of PeerGuardian Direct News Feed & Links:

Phoenix Labs The Creators of PeerGuardian, Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:22:33 +0000
Strings of Incompetence
Blocklist.org Down
A taste of things to come
Immediate action required, European Copyright Directive needs to be opposed.
Some things that need more attention
Coral Cache
FileSharingPlace taken over
Woops
Congrats, tegehel!
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TorrentOOgle Suggested Reading:
We Suggest Using:PG2 Beta
By using MORE that one listing server on peerguardian you insure the ability to download and keep up to date regardless of who might be on or off-line for what ever reason! Highly Suggested: run Level-1 and P2P listings always! Got some more links to add? then e-mail them to us at : and we will add them for others to use and see too! (links must be PG compatible! e.g. : Range Name : blah blah:0.0.0.0-0.0.0.0 Recent findings by researchers from the University of California, Riverside, show that 15% of the IPs people connect to on the Gnutella P2P network are blocked by blocklist applications such as PeerGuardian. Statistics like this do not prove anything about the effectiveness of these lists, however, according to an insider who worked for several anti-piracy organizations, blocklists significantly decrease the risk of getting caught by the MPAA or RIAA. main conclusion: a user who is not using blocklist software is practically guaranteed to be monitored. (read more)

BitTorrent Client Security:
First... Turn off, change, and block port 6881 ! (default port) in your client and your firewall / router / sandbox! for both up and downloading! use another one of your choosing instead! There is a statement you’ll often see on p2p forums, and in IRC channels. It usually comes in a discussion about “getting caught” or “letters been sent” and it goes something like “the safest thing is to join a private site. The other oft-proposed solution, blocklists, has been discussed before. Are private sites any safer though? (read more) More and more ISP’s are limiting and throttling BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By throttling BitTorrent traffic the speed of BitTorrent downloads decrease, and high speed downloads are out of the question. The list of ISP’s that limit BitTorrent traffic, or plan to do so is growing every day, and according to the BBC, the ‘bandwidth war’ has begun. Are you not sure if your traffic is being throttled Check the list of bad ISP’s. But there is a solution. Encrypting your torrents will prevent throttling ISP’s from shaping your traffic. I will explain how to enable encryption in Azureus, uTorrent, and Bitcomet, the three most popular torrent clients. What does encryption Do? The RC4 encryption obfuscates not only the header but the entire stream. This means that it’s very hard for your ISP to detect that the traffic you are generating comes from BitTorrent. Note that RC4 uses more CPU time than the plain encryption or no encryption. It is however harder to identify for traffic shaping devices How can I do this? This is different for all clients; check the setting for your favorite client below.

General BitTorrent info for endusers

Since more and more users are affected by overly aggressive traffic shaping the client should implement this traffic obfuscation feature to allow users to use their bandwidth properly. Since this only works when a shaped peer can connect to any peer in the swarm with the crypto header it is currently not possible to turn this feature off. This feature does NOT provide anonymity and only very limited confidentiality, i.e. if somebody is in possession of the correct infohash he can obtain your IP/Port combination from public sources like a tracker or from other clients via Peer Exchange he will be able to connect to you as usual. Only a passive listener can't determine what you're downloading.

When to turn it on

Generally this feature will not help you with any kind of download speed or other problems unless

• you're affected by P2P/BitTorrent traffic shaping or it is completely blocked (see Bad ISPs listed on Azureus pages or our current listing)
  
• you're on torrents with a large fraction of traffic shaped users
  
• you want to hide what protocol you're using from passive surveillance

Please note: You should make sure that you don't violate any rules (e.g. 'reasonable use' clauses) that are associated with your internet connection such as the contract with your ISP. So before you turn this feature on you should verify you have good settings and no NAT problems.

uTorrent

1. 
   Go to: Options > Preferences > BitTorrent
   
2. 
   Go to ‘Protocol encryption’, you can choose between ‘enabled’ and ‘forced’. ‘Enabled’ will give you more connections but offers less protection against traffic shapers. I would recommend to try ‘enabled’ first, if that doesn’t increase your speeds you need to swich to ‘forced’.
   
3. 
   Ticking ‘Allow legacy incoming connections’ allows non ecrypted clients to connect to you. This improves compatibility between clients but makes you more vulnerable to traffic shapers.
   
4. 
   I would recommend to tick this box, but if that doesn’t increase your speeds, untick it! That’s it, your BitTorrent traffic is encrypted now.
   

Azureus

1. 1. Go to: Tools > Options > Connection > Transport Encryption
   
2. 2. Check the ‘require encrypted transport’ box.
   
3. 3. Choose RC4 in the ‘minimum encryption’ dropdown box note that RC4 uses more CPU time than the plain encryption or no encryption. It is however harder to identify for traffic shaping devices
   
4. 4. You can choose to tick the ‘Allow non-encrypted outgoing connections if encrypted connection attempt fails’ box. This will ensure compatibility with clients that are not using encryption. However, it makes it easier for your ISP to detect BitTorrent traffic. I recommend that you try to tick this box first. If you are still not getting proper speeds untick it
   
5. 5. Tick the ‘Allow non-encrypted incoming connections’ box That’s it, your BitTorrent traffic is encrypted now.
   

Bitcomet

1. 1. Go to: Options > Preferences > Advanced > Connection
   
2. 2. Go to: ‘Protocol encryption’ You can choose between ‘auto detect’ and ‘always’. Auto detect will give you more connections but offers less protection against traffic shapers.
   

We would recommend to try auto detect first, if that doesn’t increase your speeds you need to switch to always That’s it, your BitTorrent traffic is encrypted now.
Proxy Server List

Using an proxy server you won't allow anybody to find out your IP address to use it in their own interests. Any web resource you access can gather personal information about you through your IP address. Anonymous proxy servers hide your IP address thereby saving you from vulnerabilities concerned with it.

Setting up Web Proxies in Mozilla Firefox

• Go to Preferences (in Windows, it is Tools | Options | Preferences and Linux, it is Edit | Preferences).
  
• Click on General tab on the left and the button labelled Connection Settings.
  
• Select Manual Proxy Connection and enter the HTTP proxy server address and port number.
  
• Check if you are behind the proxy by visiting this.

Here are the variables sent by the server

Variables	Values
REMOTE_ADDR	75.171.35.14
HTTP_VIA
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR

Setting up Web Proxies in Internet Explorer

• Click on Tools | Internet Options | Connection.
  
• Click on the button labelled LAN Settings.
  
• Under Proxy Server, check the box corresponding to "Use a proxy server for your LAN".
  
• Enter the address and port from the list below.
  
• Click on OK and then OK again and you should be back to your normal Internet Explorer browser window.

IP Address	Port	Country
200.65.0.25	80	Mexico
85.18.242.30	80	NA
221.209.18.18	8000	China
148.233.159.58	8080	Mexico
148.233.159.58	3128	Mexico
200.65.0.25	3128	Mexico
203.160.1.146	554	Vietnam
82.127.121.173	3128	NA
140.123.19.200	3127	Taiwan