Comments on: PeerGuardian Error Contacting URL

By: frankenfish

frankenfish — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:28:38 +0000

i get this all the time. all you have to do is disable protection while you update. the re-enable once lists are generated

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:55:52 +0000

That’s interesting to know. I’m not thinking of it for me personally, but so that I can advise Sciencetext readerss, of course. But, I actually believe at least one of the major ISPs if not more are actively monitoring torrent traffic on their systems.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:25:14 +0000

David your provider can only recognize the connection to Hotspot Shield. Everything beyond that is not visible and since the data is encrypted (it is right, have not looked it up) they cannot analyze it to gain clues. (not that they would)

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:30:12 +0000

Speaking of masking one’s IP, does Hotspotshield do this by effectively spoofing your IP to one in the US using it’s VPN system? Just curious as to whether a torrent user’s activities would be essentially invisible to their ISP or whether the packets going to and fro would be just as transparent to their monitorin systems.

By: BeautifulZune

BeautifulZune — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:09:20 +0000

I had no idea you could get the list from somewhere else. I get that error quite frequently. Thanks for the tip.