Deep packet inspection

Niall · Nov 26, 2009, 21:11:48

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/353650/virgin-media-trials-file-sharing-monitoring-tech
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2009/11/26/virgin-media-uk-trial-deep-packet-inspection-to-track-illegal-file-sharing.html

Also Mininova have gone legal today www.mininova.org (well I think it's today anyway, I never read the article properly

) http://blog.mininova.org/articles/2009/11/26/mininova-limits-its-activities-to-content-distribution-service/ <-- the blog post

Simon · Nov 26, 2009, 22:13:26

Shame about Mininova. They were one of the few torrent sites that didn't bombard you with porn.

Lance · Nov 26, 2009, 22:18:43

I find isohunt is good for searching for torrents.

Simon · Nov 26, 2009, 22:20:00

Yes, it's not bad, Lance.

Niall · Nov 26, 2009, 22:24:51

Quote from: Simon on Nov 26, 2009, 22:13:26
Shame about Mininova. They were one of the few torrent sites that didn't bombard you with porn.

Yes I was browsing one of the other sites for an album (that I own, I might add! I couldn't be bothered digging it out to burn) when I got a pop up warning from my AV telling me that the site had an advert or something that had been hijacked and was trying to install trojans on my PC. Another time I had a site like that pop up one of those adverts that you have to click to make go away (and seemingly can't be blocked through adblock), which in turn took me to a highly dodgy site, which again tried to inject my PC full of nasties. I've reported them all via NOD32 reporting system thing, so hopefully this will help in some way.

The strange thing is, I've only been having these java related attacks since I updated my installation of java a couple of days ago.

Gary · Nov 26, 2009, 23:26:42

Quote from: Niall on Nov 26, 2009, 22:24:51
Yes I was browsing one of the other sites for an album (that I own, I might add! I couldn't be bothered digging it out to burn) when I got a pop up warning from my AV telling me that the site had an advert or something that had been hijacked and was trying to install trojans on my PC. Another time I had a site like that pop up one of those adverts that you have to click to make go away (and seemingly can't be blocked through adblock), which in turn took me to a highly dodgy site, which again tried to inject my PC full of nasties. I've reported them all via NOD32 reporting system thing, so hopefully this will help in some way.

The strange thing is, I've only been having these java related attacks since I updated my installation of java a couple of days ago.

Probably because they are tying to exploit the people who did not update there java, Niall

somanyholes · Nov 27, 2009, 07:18:31

Thanks for the links. No surprises that virgin want to inspect the traffic, they can then send out stop being naughty letters and then say, did you know we provide a download service? lol.

somanyholes · Nov 27, 2009, 07:27:04

a few alternatives to isohunt, as in search multiple sites.

http://www.torrentz.com/
http://www.youtorrent.com/
http://www.completorrent.com/
http://www.speckly.com/
http://scrapetorrent.com/

Sebby · Nov 27, 2009, 17:08:16

Quote from: Simon on Nov 26, 2009, 22:13:26
Shame about Mininova. They were one of the few torrent sites that didn't bombard you with porn.

Do you mean did?

Simon · Nov 27, 2009, 22:01:35

Been there, done it, got bored.

Sebby · Nov 28, 2009, 13:17:16