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Blocking Kazaa and P2P sharing programs

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by jmar17 Jul 28, 2003 last reply Mar 17, 2004 1 view

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Hi,

I'm trying to find out what other people have done to block P2P sharing programs like Kazaa, Morpheus, Bearshare, etc. Are there specific ports that can be blocked? Or do you have to block the specific IP addresses? Any insight to this is welcome. Thanks.

Jeff

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by dmiles Jul 28, 2003

Serious P2P File Sharing Security Concerns
... peer file sharing programs including Limewire, Bearshare, Kazaa and and Grokster and ... within a number of file sharing programs by Cydoor. ... that are set up to block file downloads. ...
www.unwantedlinks.com/Guntella-alert.htm

by jmar17 Aug 12, 2003

This does not give me any insight as to how to block the P2P File sharing programs.

by thechas Jul 28, 2003

I think that you will find this TR article and discussion of interest.

http://tinyurl.com/ibsp

I thought I saw a more recent article, but could not locate it.

Chas

by james goerke Jul 28, 2003

At my company we have a login script that runs that searches the newly installed programs or changed registry's from the last time the user logged into that machine. If it picks up anything that is known (on a list in the login script) to be Spy-ware or P2P FS programs it puts a popup warning to the user. The user is then suppose to contact IT person to get it off... Not sure if that's the best solution but it seems to be working so far.