Crescent Consulting

**PLover007** · April 8th, 2006, 12:00 AM

Why when I log on EF is information about me sent to "Crescent Consulting". Because I use "Peer Guardian" as specific firewall, I cannot login on EF. If I check my logs of the program it indicates that it has stopped some IP's at the time of logging in. Those IP are from "Crescent Consulting"

**Darren0901** · April 8th, 2006, 12:05 AM

Here is their website, they don't seem to be a "bad" company
http://www.crescentcg.com/

**PLover007** · April 8th, 2006, 12:17 AM

Bad Company ? I'm not sure. They do tracking services; otherwise their IP adress would not be blocked. So because my Peer Guardian Tool blocks the several IP's from that company I cannot access EF, unless I disable my Peer Guardian Tool. I do not want my IP being logged by that company.

Peer Guardian is a complementary firewall that prevents certain tracking programs from government and other instances or companies that don't like particularily the P2P and torrent downloaders. Several thousands lawsuits all over the world are going on at the moment (and especially in Europe). These companies help to give proof. If the abovementioned company wasn't "suspicious", I wouldn't mind. I am allowed to download content, but not to upload.

By the way.... a few hours ago I mentioned in chat, that I could not log in to EF. By accident (luckily) I found out that my Peer Guardian Tool was preventing that access. And it was not the IP adress of EF I found in my log but that of Crescent Consulting. Anyway watch out what you do here on EF. Big Brother is watching over your shoulder........

**Darren0901** · April 8th, 2006, 12:26 AM

I figured that they were some kind of .gov tracker as they have the US Federal Government as one of their clients.

By "bad" I was meaning something a spy/malware kind of thing.

**PLover007** · April 8th, 2006, 12:28 AM

And here's the proof. BTW if I log on at EF and afterwards start my Peer Guardian Tool, I can't do anything on the forum, the EF page locks. Which indicates that the program is quite effective. On the other hand I think that this Crescent Consulting monitoring of EF is quite very recent, since I've had absolutely no problem b4 with my Peer Guardian tool on while surfing on EF b4. And consider it as harmfull as spyware, since you're "logged" and "monitored" and your adventures on EF are captured. So maybe in the future I'll think twice b4 posting something on EF and restrict myself to a nice innocent chat.

**Darren0901** · April 8th, 2006, 12:36 AM

Wonder if this is the Crescent Consulting that is hitting your system?

http://www.crescent-consulting.com/

**PLover007** · April 8th, 2006, 01:02 AM

Could be, I would have to compare their IP, against the IP's that my Peer Guardian Tool blocked.
But BTW remember it is ALSO MONITORING YOUR IP.
You just don't have the tool (yet) to discover it.
Install the "Peer Guardian" tool yourself and you'll see 4 yourself. If the tool is active you should not be able to log into EF.
Check afterwards the log and you should discover the name "Crescent Consulting" too. Unless they stopped temporarily the monitoring of course......

You can DL it from RS. It is a very small tool and doesn't install anything on your PC, just a self containing *.exe. It does not interfere with your firewall.

http://rapidshare.de/files/5627280/p...18-nt.exe.html

Now is this tool usefull you ask ??? Well it has been downloaded over 600 times yet. And by that I mean only on the RS server....

**PythonPower** · April 8th, 2006, 01:14 AM

ummm....yeaa.....your browser is hijacked....

**PLover007** · April 8th, 2006, 01:28 AM

Oh no, absolutely not.

Dead wrong, because besides my Peer Guardian Tool; I have a real firewall that prevents any intrusion.

Don't forget that there is a big difference between a logging of your IP, what this server does too in fact, and accessing your system.

The Crescent Consulting company does the IP logging, time, date etc.... that's why it is not considered as spyware.

The only thing that the PeerGuardian Tool does, is prevent that my IP is logged by those companies, while I'm on a P2P or in this case on EF.

As I said, if I log in on EF and my PG tool is not active my IP (and yours BTW too) is registered.

And we both have to watch out what we do here.

So no bad language PP.....

**PythonPower** · April 8th, 2006, 01:50 AM

pretty much using a proxy then?

**PLover007** · April 8th, 2006, 02:52 AM

If I wanted to go into hiding I could do that. But I'm not doing anything forbidden at the moment.... even watching my language.

And visiting EF is not against any known laws (yet).

If I wanted to download or specially upload; from now on I know that big (American) brother is watching over my shoulder, and knowing that, I know, and everybody else on EF who reads this will know from this moment on.

This will make these bastards more insecure. The open source community has tracked those MFSOB's IP's adresses down. The open source community's database is updated every few days and contains millions of IP's (over 685,000,000 million); all those IP's are conveniently blocked; those trackers can't do sh*t about it.

Paranoia ? Maybe.... But I like to know who's watching me. And if I'm on P2P by accident I have the advantage of knowing who's tracking my IP; while they don't know I know.......and I'm logging their IP while they can't log mine.

I have to earn the title of EF detective don't I ?

In fact EF is considered as a sort of P2P by those guys.

**PLover007** · April 8th, 2006, 07:22 PM

In the meantime some other EF members have installed that tool and we all came to the conclusion that our IP was monitored by Crescent Consulting. Simply by reading the blocking time in the tool under "View History" > blocked. So everyone's IP here on EF is sent to that company........and not just mine as PP wrongly presumed.

**PythonPower** · April 8th, 2006, 09:26 PM

you got pm

**PythonPower** · April 9th, 2006, 02:44 AM

FP, Who is crescent consulting? what is going on here. Please elaborate

**PLover007** · April 9th, 2006, 06:29 AM

I hope there can be a simple explanation........

In the meantime remains the simple fact that (and this only since a little more than 24 hrs ago) by blocking the IP adress of Crescent Consulting you do not have access to this forum. If you block that IP while surfing EF, the browser blocks. We and several other members have tested that out....

Also remains the simple fact that Crescent Consulting's IP is blacklisted (among 685 million others BTW) by the open source community. Which means that if it is in their database; at least it is for "some" reason. And probabily 4 yours and mine safety or precaution. Unless your name is Music, Film, Government etc...RIAA...SONY....MGM.... etc.....the list is long....

**PythonPower** · April 10th, 2006, 02:24 AM

I see still no answer from FP

**Adonis** · April 10th, 2006, 07:34 AM

I checked my firewall logs, and could not find any crescent consulting. Sorry

I don't know whats goiing on, but I am sure FP will see to it ASAP.

**FitnessPhotos** · April 10th, 2006, 10:10 AM

Crescent Consulting is our ISP; technically they own the IP addresses I use for my servers. There is nothing synister here, just an ISP where our server is racked.

Since I also host my paysite, it may be blacklisted because of the adult content.

**PLover007** · April 10th, 2006, 11:20 AM

If Crescent Consulting has always been your ISP, then there is only one logical explanation why those IP's of Crescent Consulting are only just now recently being blacklisted by the Open Source Community.

I would have to ask that question to the Sourceforge open community who in fact make those blacklists. Has Crescent Consulting recently provided info about IP's to government, music or filmindustry ? I have no clue. Fact remains that they were not on the blacklist a few days ago. Simply because my Peer Guardian Tool was often on while I browsed EF. Now I have to disable it to get into EF. Of course temporarily I will allow now those IP's and still have the tool on while surfing EF. Or simply disable the tool.

I have to investigate and query why they are suddenly among that list just recently. There must be a reason......

**FitnessPhotos** · April 10th, 2006, 02:48 PM

While Crescent owns the IPs, those IPs have been "mine" (i.e. assigned to my servers) for more than 5 years. Why they would suddenly appear on a blacklist is as curious to me as to you.