You can use PeerBlock to create custom lists of IP ranges that you want to block. Simply add the whole possible range of IP address in your network. Alternatively, you can use Windows Firewall to block all incoming connections. –

Feb 27, 2013 · Sounds like it's blocking things, i.e., doing its job. On a more serious note, here's some possible reasons: if you have a torrent program up that supports DHT, and it's running in the system tray or the background, it's in constant intermittent communication with other systems.

Oct 20, 2021 · Peerblock activity drops to almost non existent, but occasionally I will see something pop up sporadically. Now this is key to the question. I know I can use a tool like tcpview from sysinternals, but I don't want to constantly monitor …

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May 27, 2018 · Specifically, I would like to open PeerBlock whenever I run uTorrent, but I can see this being very useful for other tasks as well. I've tried using Task Scheduler, but cannot find a trigger that corresponds to uTorrent (or a non-Windows-based trigger for that matter).

it would be a bad idea to add ten's of thousands of entries to a hosts file. its just a text file, so it needs to be parsed line by line to look for matches, so every hostname lookup would result in the whole file being read line-by-line.

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So it is uTorrent's fault (or PeerBlock or Comodo). So, hmm, the problem is indeed provoked by network activity. And it does something with the driver interface, that's right because firewalls add class filters to driver interfaces. So, the correct way to proceed is to get rid of those filters, which has proven to work for me:

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Jun 17, 2014 · So its now 2022 and I thought I would update this briefly. iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -m multiport --dports 80,443 -j ACCEPT <insert further allowed list here> iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack -j ACCEPT --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED iptables -A INPUT -j DROP iptables -A OUTPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A …