isoHunt.com blocked in Dubai?

Posted: Mon May 07, 2012 2:05 am

plopocop wrote:

I'm using several services to bypass censorship. One of the best is strongvpn. com service. It's an OpenVPN or VPN accounts. While using OpenVPN for several months I can say that this service has stable and fast connection with real support. My torrents became to download much faster!

I go for Open Source too - do you have a direct link

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 4:32 am

In response to IsoHunt being blocked in some countries.

I have been using IsoHunt for a really long time and for the last two years i have been living in Spain and have had no problems with the site up until today. A new page opens with this message:

"Reported Attack Page!

This web page at ca.isohunt.com has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Attack pages try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.Some attack pages intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners."

None of the buttons to get rid of the page work so all i can do is hit the back button to get out of it which takes me back to the IsoHunt page but i can't seem to download anything as of today without getting this message. I haven't changed anything in my computer regarding my security preferences!!

What's going on? Is there a way around this? I would hate to lose this fantastic site.

Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 4:57 am

NO if you had of read the other topics you would realize that the problem was apparently caused by a rouge 3rd party advertisement.

http://ca.isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=812733

http://ca.isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2266389#2266389

The problem has been reported and should be resolved shortly.

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:19 am

tinola wrote:

my boyfriend is currently working in abu dhabi.. just an hour from dubai.. he says that uae only has one isp, etisalat. and that isohunt is indeed blocked there. we haven't tried the alternate site though.

the only solution that we've come up with to fix this is i download the torrent file and save it in my computer, then i send the torrent file to him.. it's the only way that worked.

Try using TOR network, That way you can access the website

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 10:48 am

TOR was designed specifically for this kind of stuff. you just have to be able to trust all the members of the TOR circuit that you join into.

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 5:31 pm

Abu Dhabi ad Dubai are not blocked......it is the same situation as China.....
please always use https and never just http.
I was there for the air show recently and work in the emirates at least once generally twice a year. Never had a problem.

Many pages load with http......just check the address in the browser and add the "s" manually and the page will load properly.

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:47 am

am living in India,isohunt fine but cant sign in, says no servers availabl. any answers

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:18 am

are you using a proxy server? if not maybe you should try.

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:59 am

killa1986 wrote:

are you using a proxy server? if not maybe you should try.

thanks, i went through ask explorer, same result, clicked on
forum, then jaybob, and then back to forum and i was signed in , thanks for your promt reply, i normally go through bit comet but without success since sat. thanks again for your help peter sheils

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:46 am

i suggest you change from bitcomet to utorrent as the aforementioned is banned by most torrent/tracker sites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcomet#Controversy_and_criticism

Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:08 am

[quote="killa1986"]i suggest you change from bitcomet to utorrent as the aforementioned is banned by most torrent/tracker sites. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcomet#Controversy_and_criticism [

/quote]
thanks for your help, will do

Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 2:44 am

johnno23 wrote:

Abu Dhabi ad Dubai are not blocked......it is the same situation as China.....
please always use https and never just http.
I was there for the air show recently and work in the emirates at least once generally twice a year. Never had a problem.

Many pages load with http......just check the address in the browser and add the "s" manually and the page will load properly.

Interesting topic, I have to say I agree with johnno23 on this one, not that I am anywhere close to being a technical expert re anything internet, far from it. DNS, proxies.... yeah, no clue. But I too had the issue where my internet suddenly refused to download from IsoHunt, after many other users here tried to get my system working, "cbilljones" came to my rescue and was amazing. He spent 4 hours remotely on my computer and it was the silliest thing, all that was the problem (and cbill readily said that this is normally the first thing he checks, it must have been my winning personality that distracted him as we were chatting at the same time) was I had HTTP instead of HTTPS and wallah... problem solved. I'm still very appreciative of cbill taking 4 hours of his time for me.
So as a non expert, who has had a similar problem, HTTPS as mentioned by johnno23 works a treat, well it did for me anyway. I also have Peerblock and finally given that so many internet phrases and terms have been mentioned in this piece I looked up a couple of them and came across "Tor" which has also been mentioned in this thread, as with everything it has pro's and con's but it does sound like quite a good option/alternative for internet anonymity - In case anyone is interested I included the Wikipedia link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29

Strangely it gets some of it's funding from the US State Department.
I also read that Etisalat is the 15th largest Mobile network operator in the world, gosh I wander if they start buying out other countries ISP's, if they will block sites in those countries too?

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:05 pm

also in Italy?
I can not access without anonymox .. a tool for firefox which unfortunately slows down the connection .. = (

Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 4:09 pm

Sorry I have not looked at the date of the topic .. XD

Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 6:50 pm

Us Western infidels have freedom of speech!!