BT Hack: Modify or reset your share ratio

There is one thing that I must make very clear. If you attempt this on a private tracker this could obviously get you banned especially if you lack common sense and change the record of how much you have uploaded to 100 GB one day after joining the tracker.

There are two share ratios you need to be aware of the one tracked by a private tracker (If you signed up to one obviously) and your other share ratio that is tracked by a client program like Azureus.

Hacking a private tracker:

This will only work if the tracker is running torrentbits source code

Programs that you need:
- HTTP Analyzer
- Mozilla Firefox
- User Agent Switcher Extension
- And a bittorrent client
1. Install the User Agent Switcher Extension (the extension will be used to identify as a bittorrent client to the tracker) to Mozilla Firefox (if you don’t have Firefox, get it!).
2. After installing the extension go in Firefox to:

Tools -> User Agent Switcher -> Options -> Options -> User Agents

Click Add, write “BitTorrent/3.4.2” to the Description and User Agent and then press “Ok”.

3. Then go to:

Tools -> User Agent Switcher and select the newly added User Agent, “BitTorrent/3.4.2”.

4. Install HTTP Analyzer.
5. Get a .torrent file from a tracker that uses the torrentbits source code and add it to your client. (DO NOT START IT)
6. Start HTTP Analyzer and go to the “Start Logging” button, select “Select a process…”, choose your bittorrent client (Important: If you use Azureus, select the javaw.exe proccess from the list) from the list and click “Ok”.
7. Go into your client and start the torrent.
8. Now go into HTTP Analyzer, there you should see a GET request to the tracker.

Example:

GET /torrents/announce.php? info_hash=%B5%2D%F4%ADM%18%7C%83C%E9%EC%C8%C7%F7%973%3Fap%15&peer_id= %2DBC0059%2Dp%D1%FBd%D0%C6%EC%7B%B4%D5q%B8&port=12345&uploaded=0&downloaded =0&left=0&numwant=200&compact=1&no_peer_id=1&key=9427&event=started HTTP/1.0

9. Open Firefox, paste into the address bar:

(because of the format of this blog the entire line of text dosen’t show, when you paste this in the browser erase the space between “&port=” and “PORT&” )

http://TRACKER.ADDRESS/announce.php?info_hash=INFOHASH&peer_id=PEERID&port= PORT&uploaded=UPLOADED&downloaded=0&left=0&numwant=0&event=completed

replace:

TRACKER.ADDRESS with the torrent tracker address (ex: www.filelist.org:81)
INFOHASH with info_hash variable taken from the GET request from HTTP Analyzer,
PEERID with the peer_id
PORT with the port
UPLOADED with an number that you want, in bytes (ex: 10737418240 for 10GB)

Source (Go here for pictures if you need more help)

Your bittorent Client:

I discovered this little trick on my own…I use Azureus as a client so this hack will be based on that. I DON’T KNOW IF THIS WORKS WITH OTHER CLIENTS, but you can follow along and try to apply it to whatever client you have.

To reset your Azureus share ratio go to “My Computer” click on your C: drive (or whichever drive you installed windows on)

Go to Tools>folder options>go to “view” tab> select “show hidden files and folders”>click “apply”

Go to “Documents and Settings” Folder.

Go to the folder matching your Windows account name (your user name when you log into windows, it also appears at the top of the start menu)

You will see a faded folder called “Application data” go into it.

Click on the “Azureus” Folder (other bittorrent clients will obviously be under something else)

Delete “azureus.statistics” and “azureus.statistics.bak” and your share ratio will reset to 0. (Other BT clients will have it under something else)

You can also modify your share ratio by opening the azureus.statistics and decreasing the value after “downloadedi”, e.g.:

- before: downloadedi6980608e6
- after: downloadedi1980608e6

you can similary increase the value after “uploadedi”

Do a system restore checkpoint before attempting any of this To learn how go here it is easy to do. go to “Create a Restore Point”.

For other clients where erasing their application data folder doesn’t work it means the share ratio information is stored somewhere else. Try uninstalling the client and erasing anything that is left of it in C:\program files and lastly check the Windows Registry by going to start>run>type “regedit” go to edit>find and search for words like for example “utorrent” erase anything that comes up. Then reinstall the client