TMG best practices for blocking torrents
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Sunday, October 28, 2012 5:20 PM
Hello
I am wondering how companies go about blocking torrents through TMG 2010. I am running SP2, and have done some reading and the old way seems to be by blocking signatures, however it seems that programs like utorrent are now encrypting their signatures and all traffic simply looks like http traffic. I am wondering if anyone has a good strategy on blocking these types of connections?
Thanks
Bryan
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Sunday, October 28, 2012 7:14 PM
Hi,
you can use the TMG URL filtering feature in addition to HTTP filtering and static deny URL sets:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee207145.aspx
regards Marc Grote aka Jens Baier - www.it-training-grote.de - www.forefront-tmg.de - www.nt-faq.de
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Monday, October 29, 2012 8:45 AMModerator
Hi,
Thank you for the post.
To block P2P applications like u-torrent, you can configure the HTTP filter by adding a new signature with the following configuration:
Search in: Request Header
HTTP Header: User-Agent:
Signature: UTorrent
Regards,
Nick Gu - MSFT
- Proposed As Answer by Nick Gu - MSFTMicrosoft Contingent Staff, Moderator Thursday, November 01, 2012 2:55 AM
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