Thought this info might be usefull for others aswell so here goes,

I noticed a peer in my bittorent client that had [FAKE] infront of the uses client, asked around on the forum where I grabbed the torrent and I got told I should (at least) block him cause the chances we're big it was a 'ghost' leecher. I found the following tutorial on the internet and it worked like a charm for me: http://www.techzilo.com/how-to-ban-peer ... -utorrent/

Basicly it comes down to this:



1) Go to Options > Preferences (or hit Ctrl+P), go to Advanced tab and scroll down to ipfilter.enable, click on it and set it to true. Click OK to exit preferences window.

2) Find and click once the torrent, and click the Peers tab. Right-click anywhere inside the Peers tab and uncheck ?Resolve IPs?. So, all peers will be listed by their IP address alone, which is what we need.

3) Open a Notepad window and manually type in any IP address that you wish to block.

4) Save the Notepad window (with the IP addresses) as ipfilter.dat The location for saving the file should be C:Documents and SettingsUSERNAMEApplication DatauTorrent, where USERNAME is the user name of your system account. If you have installed Windows in a different drive, change C: accordingly.

5) Go back to uTorrent, click the any torrent, go to the Peers tab, right-click and click ?Reload IP filter?.

Note) If you need to block more IP addresses later, open ipfilter.dat, add the IP addresses, save the file, then go to uTorrent, click any torrent, go to its Peers tab, right click and click ?Reload IP filter?.

If you do not want the hassle of going through all these steps, you could use an alternative client that provides easy IP blocking, but that means you would not be able to use uTorrent.

nice little tut...



but are you sure you meant "(including the quotes)"?

You mean the quote in the above post?
Maybe I should move it up a but but yeah that was a decision I made since they put it up I'd reckon i'd post their shit aswell

No I mean what I said.

Its says (and I quote):

4) Save the Notepad window (with the IP addresses) as ?ipfilter.dat? (including the quotes).

is that right or is it excluding the quotes? a filename with quotes seems wrong.

**blocks GRiND for no apparent reason**

@GRiND, you're right didn't know you we're talking about those quotationmarks, *removed them*

what quotes are you talking about?

It stated to include the quotes when saving the ipfilter.dat ("ipfilter.dat")

pff, no fun if you just answer me.

so instead have some:

Those damn pink elephants always eat my veggies

your loss