Computer contains files that infringe?

General
#1

I have recently been using tribler.

I mostly use to download linux iso’s .

Although, Lately I have been receiving e-mails and had Internet suspended due to copyright files being on my computer or being shared.

The files my ISP speaks of are Porno Movies. I am 100% certain I have not downloaded these torrents or movies.

That being said, When I have tribler running idle can that be the issue?

I understand that Tor uses everyone as a node, Am I being used as a node that is help sharing this weird porn???

Any suggestions on fixing this issue? I do not want to be permanently banned from my ISP for files I have not been downloading .

Thanks in advanced

#2

RESOLVED:

I was being used as an exit node… I did not see the " pop up " during installation .

I’ve never had trouble downloading torrents with my ISP until I tried tribler.

Love the idea… But maybe make it NOOB friendly ?

#3

Sorry for the delay, we where on vacation :slight_smile:

Good to know you solved it,

re. NOOB friendly: We already dealt with it on the current pre-release. As people tend to ignore pop-up windows and just press OK (who could have thought that!? :smiley: )

By default Tribler acts as an intermediate node only by default, to enable the exit node functionality, you have to go to to the settings panel and check the box under the big fat warning™.

#4

Thanks for the reply.

I do have another question, not sure if this pertains to tribler or not.

My internal subnet is 192.168.0.1/24 .

After the ISP sent the infringement email , I did a network audit. Found some weird IP addresses in my network. For instance, 192.168.35.6 , and 4 ports are opened that are used for “p2p” .

Any ideas? Am I a Botnet Zombie ? Or being used as someones VPN or Proxy?

I am going to request a new router .

#5

Tribler’s proxying system only forwards UDP traffic and UPNP port forwarding is disabled due to it not being exposed on the python bindings for libtorrent, and even if it was enabled, we only use two ports, one for bittorrent traffic and another for dispersy traffic.

Have you tried pinging/portscanning that IP? Does the router have that .35.* network configured too? Maybe you have a neighbour leeching off your Wifi?

I would start by switching to WPA2 if you haven’t and using a long non-default password for it and see if it goes away.