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You're wrong, Rich. When you run eMule (or any p2p app), you create big holes in your firewall to allow the p2p app to work. You give it unrestricted access, you open ports, basically you tell your firewall to ignore anything that eMule is doing, as well as anything that anyone may be doing to eMule.

But even if you didn't, your firewall cannot protect you against the threats specific to p2p. The ipfilter contains a list of IP addresses of the known bad guys - bad servers, anti p2p activists, and government agencies etc. eg. If you see a client that has an IP address that is in a block of IP addresses that has been allotted to Sony Corporation or US Dept of Treasury, you know that client can be up to no good. The ipfilter automates this process for you.

The ipfilter I am currently using has 122908 IP filters loaded. You can do the same thing in your firewall by creating an individual rule to block each of the addresses in the ipfilter. Or you can just use the ipfilter.

The ipfilter I am currently using has 122908 IP filters loaded.

So which IP filter is the one you use please emuler ?

PG2 currently has 664644128 IP's blocked

The one I use: http://emulepawcio.sourceforge.net/nieu ... filter.zip

This is good too: updated more frequently
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/ipfilter.dat

A nice smaller one - if you are low on resources (not enough RAM):
http://okwel.info/ipfilter.zip

Download, unzip, then import into your client. For eMule Plus, rename to ipfilter.dat if needed, then copy to the config folder replacing the old one already there.

emuler wrote:You're wrong, Rich. When you run eMule (or any p2p app), you create big holes in your firewall to allow the p2p app to work. You give it unrestricted access, you open ports, basically you tell your firewall to ignore anything that eMule is doing, as well as anything that anyone may be doing to eMule.

i thought it was just 1 port which can be specified...

http://img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=13vt.jpg

my emule connection only uses port 4662

emuler wrote:But even if you didn't, your firewall cannot protect you against the threats specific to p2p. The ipfilter contains a list of IP addresses of the known bad guys - bad servers, anti p2p activists, and government agencies etc. eg. If you see a client that has an IP address that is in a block of IP addresses that has been allotted to Sony Corporation or US Dept of Treasury, you know that client can be up to no good. The ipfilter automates this process for you.

i always set trusted servers to high priority, then it automatically only connects to them. :

to be honest i've never tended to worry about these things : but thanks for the advice emuler

btw i regularly check my internet connection (all ports) with emule running with Shields UP...

https://grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2

never found any problems :