Their representatives would not comment further on the subject, referring only to the statement. Phoenixlabs, which makes PeerGuardian, put out this statement in response.

Those that do, have been unable to use PeerGuardian afterwards. These updates identify the PeerGuardian application as malware, and offer the user the ability to deal with the ‘infection’. Two signatures called Win32/PeerGuardian were added in update number 2894 on the 21st of Feb, with another 5 added in update number 2895 the following day. Similarly by the Opentracker people, and the German Chaos Computer Club.īased on the feedback from Bluetack, ESET added PeerGuardian to their anti-virus updates. This was the same kind of attitude experienced by Ludvig Strigeus almost exactly two years ago, after was added to the Bluetack lists. He later posted a screenshot of the discussion to the ESET support forum. A representative from ESET tried to contact Bluetack, to see about the removal from the list. However, ESET didn’t take too kindly to this disruption of its business. “It was only 1 IP, but since they’re a commercial software company with a strong financial interest in copyrighted material, they go on level 1 regardless”. ‘m0nk’, another administrator later told TorrentFreak that he noticed an IP belonging to ESET on a private tracker’s movie torrent that he was on. However, what kind of anti-p2p activity was taking place is unclear.īluetack administrator ‘m00re’ told TorrentFreak that the IPs were added because “someone noticed them on a torrent”. These were added to the blocklist for alleged anti-p2p activities. These blocked IP ranges contain many of the servers used to provide anti-virus signatures for NOD32. IPs or ranges of ISPs from which anti-p2p activity has been observed.Government ranges or companies that have a strong financial interest in doing work for governments.Companies that produce or have a stong financial interest in copyrighted material.Companies which anti-p2p activity has been seen from.over and over) who are clearly involved with trying to stop filesharing. “Level 1” is the term that Bluetack use for their lists containing ( according to site admin ‘monk’): It started off with Bluetack adding some IP addresses to its “Level 1 blocklist” that belonged to ESET (NOD32) update servers.

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