Prevent accidental running u-torrent, when connected to office vpn?

Is there a way to prevent(or alert) accidental running utorrent, when connected to office vpn? I mean, only one should be running at any time, either u-torrent or the vpn.

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Kiranshell

Posted 2012-10-16T03:19:44.820

Reputation: 489

1How do you accidentally run anything? – Moab – 2012-10-16T03:43:09.247

@Moab: Precisely what I was thinking! Kiran, care to specify your OS? – Karan – 2012-10-16T03:50:13.830

yeah, you don't run it. – Sathyajith Bhat – 2012-10-16T04:34:36.257

One word: Discipline? – Chad Harrison – 2012-10-16T13:14:29.253

Answers

I think the end result we're going for is that we don't want utorrent traffic to be going through the VPN. The VPN will have a specific IP address, which is definately not the same as your system's own IP address. Now, we're basically doing the reverse of the instructions here

First find the ip address of your physical ethernet adaptor - ipconfig should give you that, and it would be a line reading ethernet adaptor local area connection or wireless lan adaptor

Go to Utorrent, advanced and set net.bind_ip and net.outgoing_ip to this IP address. If there's anything else you can set (maybe an option for incoming IP) do the same.

This should cause Utorrent not to listen or send things via the VPN, which should prevent you from 'accidentally' using the VPN for torrents.

Journeyman Geek

Posted 2012-10-16T03:19:44.820

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Excellent way of solving the problem. – Nifle – 2012-10-16T07:18:57.457

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks Jouneyman!! – Kiranshell – 2012-10-16T13:51:16.043

Press the windows key + r
type "msconfig" and press enter
go to the startup tab and uncheck utorrent
or uninstall utorrent
other than this, I can't possibly help you not run something

Alex Nye

Posted 2012-10-16T03:19:44.820

Reputation: 832

msconfig is no "accident", but +1 for the best answer possible given the information provided. – Moab – 2012-10-16T05:36:21.940

And if utorrent keeps adding itself to autostart, use TeaTimer

– Tobias Kienzler – 2012-10-16T10:13:08.327

Just wanted to add another possible solution to the list:

I have VirtualBox setup, a 'Work' install of Windows, set to bridged networking.

The VPN software is run in the virtual PC, allowing a connection to BOTH work and personal internet at the same time on the same physical PC.

This allows torrenting, web surfing, music streaming, etc, on the main desktop without having it use work internet. There are also file organization, security, and psychological benifits from the separated desktops.

WhoIsRich

Posted 2012-10-16T03:19:44.820

Reputation: 464