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    utorrent flooding?

    I have been running 7 instances of uSerenity and 1 mRatio and I have been warned that the computer running these is flooding the company routers and also that they are trying to access other computers on the network. What could be the cause of this?
    I find the whole thing entirely idiotic but there may be some truth.

    What may cause utorrent to flood a router? No bandwidth is consumed by these because everything was fake, utorrent seeded fake files, mratio the same so why?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Razor View Post
    I have been running 7 instances of uSerenity and 1 mRatio and I have been warned that the computer running these is flooding the company routers
    you ran that from the office?
    Your account has been disabled.
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    Of course I did. Look, they don't have a problem towards torrents, but they draw attention to the flooding bit.
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    Seven instances of uSerenity and one mRatio. My guess is that you have a lot torrents loaded on each and their announce cycle opens a lot of connections, even if you aren't uploading anything.

    I'm unsure about "trying to access other computers on the network", but turn off Local Peer Discovery, UPnP and NAT-PMP in uTorrent if you haven't done so already.
    "I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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    My guess is that you have a lot torrents loaded on each and their announce cycle opens a lot of connections, even if you aren't uploading anything.
    Only 4 instaces were used but they all had the same torrents, different passkeys. And they had 10 torrents / instance.

    I'm unsure about "trying to access other computers on the network", but turn off Local Peer Discovery, UPnP and NAT-PMP in uTorrent if you haven't done so already.
    I have shut it down for now. Let 'em cool off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Razor View Post
    Only 4 instaces were used but they all had the same torrents, different passkeys. And they had 10 torrents / instance.
    Then I don't know Because 40 connections isn't enough to take down even the cheapest of routers.

    I presume DHT (which generates further per-instance connections) is already turned off, since they're private torrents.
    "I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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    But isn't userenity hardcoded to ignore private torrents? Truth is that I hadd all of them check at that moment (Local Peer Discovery, UPnP and NAT-PMP and DHT)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Razor View Post
    But isn't userenity hardcoded to ignore private torrents?
    DHT is always active if enabled, even if you're only running private torrents only. It just won't do anything (for you).
    "I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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    Sounds like a botnet
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    Well I turned on today, with the modifications that anon specified. Hope it'll work better this time.
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    Try sandboxing uSerenity using Thinapp, unless ur using Win10 then use some other sandboxing app.
    Use ur original settings and see if uSerenity can still access ur other computers.

    I still dont understand why it need admin rights...
    dont ban me just spank me
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    How said anything about admin rights?
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    my bad

    u didnt say it, it was meant to be rhetorical
    I was going to say (due to old info so disregard)
    I was just wondering why when utorrent is made portable it doesnt require admin but uSerenity being already portable does. Strange dont u think?
    If uS required admin for registering torrent and magnet uri I would rather a reg file

    However uSerenity doesnt ask for admin anymore at least in Win10, so: my bad
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    So, two months have passed and I finally figured what it was all about.
    There are two settings in advaced:
    bt.no_connect_to_services
    bt.no_connect_to_services_list
    If you have this to false, it will also try to connect on ports listed in the list entry, by default: 25,80,110,443,6666,6667
    So it was actually treying to access peer resources.

    My utorrent executables have been blacklisted since, I've rerun the operations today. All 8 of them.
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    I still don't entirely get it... uTorrent connecting on those ports would trigger firewall warnings because it looks like it's sending e-mail/connecting to IRC, but why was it attempting to "access other computers on the network"?
    "I just remembered something that happened a long time ago."
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