Im using peer guardian 2 and bit comet and am constantly and i mean CONSTANTLY seeing SafeNet.Inc pop up. Anyways this has really made me aware of people trying to get hold of my ip address. Ive found that having the 'DHT Network' option switched on makes my downloads go so much faster but ive disabled it because im not sure how safe it is for my privacy. I would like to be able to turn it back on but i really want to make sure it doesnt increase my risks. Can anyone clear this up for me?

Thanks.

EDIT: Pepsi One--Moved to a more appropriate Forum Peer-2-Peer > Bit Torrent

DHT means you connect to people not only from the place (tracker), which you got the torrent from, but also from anybody, who is downloading this file anywhere on the net and is connected to dht network.
It increases your privacy risk a lot because antip2p people pretty much always monitor downloads through dht network, but you can also get many more normal sources too. So your choice.
From my experience using DHT with utorrent gives lots of bad hits, with Vuze lots of bad hits, with halite almost no bad hits, with bitcomet average number of hits, but I've not used it for ages as it is bloated as hell.