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Old 09-05-2007, 06:06 AM
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Default Re: Best Torrent Client

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Originally Posted by sans View Post
Thanks for the info.
Now I have enabled the port forwarding and I get around 50 kBps download overall. But I doubt whether this port forwarding will cause my system to be vulnerable to attacks. Will the windows firewall help ?
Though port forwarding alone cant do much harm to your system, make sure that you are running a firewall that allows only utorrent to communicate thru the particular port.

You can also try Zone Alarm, which I prefer.
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