nedkat
03-06-2006, 04:39 PM
I've been using Azerus (sp?) and BitTorrent for all my needs. The other day I decided to give uTorrent a whirl. By chance I also happened to try out PG2 at the same time.
Result: I got a flood of intrusions detected by not only PG2 but also my firewall. Both PG2 and the firewall were detecting several intrusion hits per second. It continued after I shut down uTorrent... link-light on NIC going off like a friggin strobe light.
That's NEVER happened to me before
I unplugged the comp for a while and switched back to BitTorrent also disabling PG2. Everything back to normal; only an intrusion hit every minute or two.
Then later I tried uTorrent again (without PG2) and again a flood of several intrusion hits per second in my firewall. Continued after I shutdown uTorrent.
Now back to BitTorrent and everything is normal again. Just the usual flow of hits in the firewall IDS... link-light on NIC reflecting the same traffic flow as firewall.
What's up with uTorrent???
edit: Note that the unusual IDS hits were in my firewall also (with or without PG2)... and only if I run uTorrent... so this is not something that PG2 is "revealing".
Result: I got a flood of intrusions detected by not only PG2 but also my firewall. Both PG2 and the firewall were detecting several intrusion hits per second. It continued after I shut down uTorrent... link-light on NIC going off like a friggin strobe light.
That's NEVER happened to me before
I unplugged the comp for a while and switched back to BitTorrent also disabling PG2. Everything back to normal; only an intrusion hit every minute or two.
Then later I tried uTorrent again (without PG2) and again a flood of several intrusion hits per second in my firewall. Continued after I shutdown uTorrent.
Now back to BitTorrent and everything is normal again. Just the usual flow of hits in the firewall IDS... link-light on NIC reflecting the same traffic flow as firewall.
What's up with uTorrent???
edit: Note that the unusual IDS hits were in my firewall also (with or without PG2)... and only if I run uTorrent... so this is not something that PG2 is "revealing".