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Vimal
Vimal
New Member
February 18, 2010
Question

Blocking utorrent download

  • February 18, 2010
  • 5 replies
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hi can anyone help me out in blocking utorrent downloads. we have fortigate 310b using v4.0,build0194,100121 (MR1 Patch 3)

    5 replies

    hidayet
    hidayet
    New Member
    February 18, 2010
    Hi Vimal, UTM > Application Control > P2P blocking
    Jshaw
    Jshaw
    New Member
    February 18, 2010
    also look at blocking proxy sites via the webfilter and look at blocking vpn tunnel connections to sites like itshidden.com. This will help in peolple trying to bypass the app control portion.
    Anonymous_User
    Contributor III
    February 25, 2010
    Have they fixed it with latest patches? I tried to block torrent traffic with MR1 when it came out but it did not work
    lmuir
    lmuir
    New Member
    February 26, 2010
    Encrypted Bittorrent traffic is always going to be a problem. Try limiting the open ports to services you require, not a simple any rule.
    Anonymous_User
    Contributor III
    February 26, 2010
    Encrypted Bittorrent traffic is always going to be a problem. Try limiting the open ports to services you require, not a simple any rule.
    This is a good practice regardless... you can avoid a lot of headaches by limiting your outgoing traffic to necessary ports / hosts. For example... outgoing SMTP should not be open to everyone unless necessary. If one machine gets a spambot on it you could have your IP blacklisted, seriously impeding your ability to send emails. If you set up your rules so only your mail server can access outgoing SMTP this would not happen. I know that from personal experience.
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