Block Bittorrent client

Don't run the Bit Torrent client! Or install a software firewall like ZoneAlarm or Outpost and don't allow it outbound or inbound traffic.

What version of Checkpoint? From Version R55W on, SmartDefense has the ability to block BitTorrent traffic by identifying BitTorrent fingerprints and HTTP headers.

Wayne McGlinn Brisbane, Oz

Because of this posting, I will ask Alex Bernauer, if he want's to implement a Torrent extension based on his wwwsh.

Thank you for the good idea!

Bit Torrent is a very good P2P network, and should be supported.

Yours, VB.

Your best bet is to block all traffic destined for port 6881.

I don't think so.

But perhaps for downloading films. And, no, not everytime for illegal things. For example, the CCC distributes our films of the congresses as torrent.

Yes.

Yes.

Yours, VB.

It's better to BLOCK ANYTHING you don't have a reason to not block, by default you block ALL inbound and all outbound traffic and then expose what is needed ONLY. Bit torrent is not needed by default.

That defense will work for all of about 30 seconds....that's about how long it will take the BitTorrent user to notice the error message in their client software & go into the program preferences to choose a different range of ports.

The only thing that would work 100% would be hardware that recognizes BitTorrent data and drop all traffic that matched the pattern.....oh, wait...that USED to work. Now all the BitTorrent clients are starting to add encryption capabilities so that gets around that defense as well.

Only sure-fire way to stop it is to lock down the offending user's machine so s/he cannot install software and then uninstall the BT client.

If one is content with just slowing down the stream of data rather than stopping it there's always QoS/bandwidth management.