Endless Paradigm

Alright so I was playing FFI on the wonderswan (On oswan emulator to be precise) until BAM! I randomly get this error message from PG2

Alright so I thought it was just weird so I closed PG2 and opened again and still kept getting those messages appearing so I reinstalled it and still those messages appear.
So, um yeah I need help, also I do have NOD32, apparently one version of it considers it a virus

Phoenix Labs Wrote:At least, according to NOD32.

ESET, the makers of NOD32 Antivirus, were recently added to Bluetack’s level 1 blocklist due to some P2P activity Bluetack detected from an ESET netblock. Despite assuring an ESET representative that the level 1 list was doing its intended job correctly by blocking an organization with a suspected P2P presence, and that you, our users, do indeed choose to run PeerGuardian specifically for this purpose (and that those in our community who trust ESET could very easily set an allow entry for them), Bluetack apparently got a frivolous legal threat from them.

ESET’s solution? To classify PeerGuardian as a virus.

So if you’re a user of NOD32 you will have to make sure it knows PeerGuardian isn’t a threat. Or do what I would do: switch to an antivirus that doesn’t classify legitimate applications as a virus just because it conflicts with its company’s interests. Maybe Avast, or Symantec.

Edit: It appears ESET has reconsidered their decision, and PeerGuardian will be out of their definitions in a future update.
Edit 2: I’ve been informed PeerGuardian was classified as a general malware, not as a virus.

this article was posting in feburary 2008 By the way
Although I somewhat don't think it has to do with my problem because I haven't updated NOD32 and everything's been fine until today.

Don't know. Never used Peer Guardian before. But do you really need it? If you don't, then it's simply eating resources.

Assassinator Wrote:Don't know. Never used Peer Guardian before. But do you really need it? If you don't, then it's simply eating resources.

No not at the moment, infact, you know what, there's probably better ways to obtain P2P privacy.

See if PG2 stores some database - probably in your \Documents and Settings\*user*\Application Data  or Local Settings\Application Data

Probably has "sqlite" in the name or something - just guessing.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:See if PG2 stores some database - probably in your \Documents and Settings\*user*\Application Data  or Local Settings\Application Data

Probably has "sqlite" in the name or something - just guessing.

Nothing in those two directories, well that involve PG2 anyway.

They usually file stuff under the company name there.
I can't say anything else though - I don't use it, and it doesn't stop anyone snooping on your torrents anyway (even those on the block list) since the tracker is broadcasting your IP to the world (or private group) anyway.

Sparker Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:Don't know. Never used Peer Guardian before. But do you really need it? If you don't, then it's simply eating resources.

No not at the moment, infact, you know what, there's probably better ways to obtain P2P privacy.

Do you really even need P2P privacy? Noone's going to go after you, really. Especially when you don't live in the US.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:They usually file stuff under the company name there.
I can't say anything else though - I don't use it, and it doesn't stop anyone snooping on your torrents anyway (even those on the block list) since the tracker is broadcasting your IP to the world (or private group) anyway.

Stops bad people connecting to you?

Assassinator Wrote:Stops bad people connecting to you?

What could they really do?

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:They usually file stuff under the company name there.

Not even a folder called Phoenix Labs or Methlabs.

Assassinator Wrote:

Sparker Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:Don't know. Never used Peer Guardian before. But do you really need it? If you don't, then it's simply eating resources.

No not at the moment, infact, you know what, there's probably better ways to obtain P2P privacy.

Do you really even need P2P privacy? Noone's going to go after you, really. Especially when you don't live in the US.

I'm pretty sure UK is also craking down on priracy, but yeah you got a good point.
I'm convinced now that I don't really need it.

If they target you anyway, PG2 isn't going to do poo poo all to help really...