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Old May 5th, 2002
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Originally posted by compupc1
I don't think this is a problem with Limewire. Rather, it seems more like someone wrote a mini-Gnutella client where all it does is sit on the network listening for search requests, and then just spits back this url as a result no matter what the search was. I just seemes like there's some guy sitting out there on the network with this hoaxing client. Again, I don't think it's a problem with limewire.
I completely agree. The protocol is well documented and would I think it would be easy for anyone with some determination to create a program that misbehaves.

Still, an excellent network, and hopefully not too many people would do something like the above.