How to block torrent downloads by squid ?

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Published on 2010-02-22T09:35:28Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 10:02 UTC
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I am using linux (RHEL 5) server with few windows xp client machines ,

I would like to block torrent downloads at clients,

I am using squid 2.6 stable.

How can i do this by squid ?
Is there any other options for to do this ?

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