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Lord of the Rings January 14th, 2013 02:33 PM

General information about LimeWire clone versions
 
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Cabos, Acqlite and Acquisition

The earliest mainstay programs that could be considered clones of LimeWire were Cabos, Acqlite and Acquisition. However, whilst these programs used the internal engine of LimeWire with some modifications, their interfaces were considerably different and quite simplistic in comparison. All of these 3 program's interfaces are somewhat similar. Acqlite was designed to be a cross between Cabos and Acquisition.

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Interfaces for each of Acqlite and Cabos, both very similar. Acqlite can keep history of previous sessions searches & perhaps a fraction faster to connect compared to Cabos.

Acquisition (Mac OSX only) is now no longer developed and due to the developer's aggressive commercial approach tried to make sure these versions would no longer run on the network (and people's paid for lifetime membership of Acquisition turned into dust as the developer ran off happily with their money and then developed a torrent shareware equivalent called xtorrent to continue to rip people off with a pathetic torrent program that is not even on the allowed list of torrent programs at private torrent sites. I have tried xtorrent and it is pathetic compared to the true well known standard torrent programs. He provided only half the Acquisition program in the last update then disabled the ability to download the other half despite people had paid for it.) Some Acquisition programs can occasionally be seen online however. Recommended replacement for Acquisition would be Acqlite which is very similar but totally free and usually connects easily. A connection fix installer is available if problems connecting.

Cabos (Windows & Mac) & Acqlite (MacOSX only) can be found here for Windows, or here for MacOSX Cabos & Acqlite or Acqlite here for the sourceforge link, to save you searching for them. Cabos sourceforge download page is Cabos via sourceforge. Another alternative is GoogleDrive. Note: Cabos 0.8 for MacOSX will only run on OSX 10.5 Leopard or earlier and will not run on 64-bit OSX (Cabos 0.7 will run on 10.6 but only 32-bit). Use Acqlite instead, it's arguably a better program in any case. However Acqlite requires specifically Java 1.6 (also known as Java 6) to run.
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Note to MacOS users: MacOS issues up to Big Sur 11 for both downloading and opening apps: Due to MacOS's policies on unsigned apps (unidentified developers) and Gatekeeper, you will need to perform a few tricks to both download, install and then open any of these older legacy apps that are all unsigned apps. I've converted several webpages (including Apple Support) to PDF's to help explain how to by-pass MacOS restrictions for unknown devs (unsigned code) and being able to download from a non-mac website, see MacOS security - Using legacy apps on Mac OS.


All other Limewire clones

All the other clone versions of LimeWire I am aware of look and behave almost identically to LimeWire version 4 or earlier (with exception of FrostWire 4, I estimate their technology is no more advanced than LimeWire 4.10.) These LW clones were based off the LW4 or earlier source code (some started during LW3 or earlier.) Of course many people would remember FrostWire as being very similar to LimeWire v.4.

Sorry no LW clones exist for Linux with exception of FrostWire.

These are the only other LW clone versions I have tried or am aware of:
360Share, Addax, Bearshare Turbo, BitRope P2P, CitrixWire, DexterWire, Emerald P2P UltraPeer, GnutellaWire, KoolWire, LemonWire, LimeRunner, LimeShare Pro, LimeWire MP3, LimeWire Music, LimeWire Turbo, LimeZilla, LuckyWire, MP3 Rocket, MP3 Torpedo, MP3Suite, MP3treat, Sharest, ShareWire, ShareZilla, TurboWire, WinMX Music, WireStack. These are all look-alikes of LimeWire 4 with exception of LuckyWire.

The only clone program of the LimeWire 5 version I am aware of is LuckyWire. (Ignoring LPE & WireShare from this.)

My impression is all the LimeWire 4 style clones use older gnutella technology with exception of FrostWire. The only LW 4 clone to have DHT (or even TLS) capabilities AFAIK is FrostWire version 4. DHT was first added to the LimeWire 4.14 version & none of the other LW4 style clones reciprocated (I suspect TLS was added in LW4.12.) The only other clones that seem to have DHT capabilities are Cabos & Acqlite. LuckyWire also.

Attachment 6253 (identified and tested LW-clones with their icons and names, click to see larger view, 125 KB JPeg)

If you are using or wish to use one of the LimeWire-4 style Clone programs, I highly recommend Port Forwarding so you are not firewalled. The LW-4 style Clones may have UPnP support but it is obviously a very early basic UPnP & in most cases does not work!!! Over 90% (probably 95%) of LW-4 style Clones I see are firewalled, and those that are not firewalled have port forwarded and often connect as ultrapeers (their connection port in most cases is always the same.)

If you know of any other programs based off LimeWire, please let us know. :)

The purpose of this forum is a general help to keep the Gnutella network running happily. And this includes all the LW clone versions. Some such programs have their own forums, some did but have since closed, and some never had any support.


Upon testing, a few of the LW clones attempt to send messages to a site of address 66.28.49.83 which Malwarebytes blocks and warns me is a malicious website. Spybot-Search&Destroy removed 3 or 4 items and almost 100 entries for the spyware added by the 3rd party installers (that I had not already removed.)



If you are considering trying any of the LW4 style clone versions, my first advice would be to be careful of the installation options. My advice is to choose Custom install and disable the installation of the toolbars and other junkware. Lots of software companies are now into getting pocket money for including 3rd party software in their installers, which only have the effect of slowing your computer and network down. My sister's computer was the best example, with about 15 toolbars, a dozen search engines, several browser plug-ins, some security softwares that did not work well, all resulting in her computer running as slow as a computer made in the 1980's. :D (10 minutes waiting for a web page to load whilst using high speed broadband, and 15 minutes for the computer to boot up fully.) :rolleyes: :slow::imwaiting: Once a specialist cleaned her computer of the junk, it ran as fast as though it were new. And all this hassle and particular slow motion running due to 3rd party installations.

I set the install options to custom for all the above programs and unchecked all options for 3rd party software. A few of them installed browser plug-ins anyway despite this. I knew because I was watching various parts of the computer during installation and kept deleting/uninstalling these plug-ins. (And LimeZilla will not even run unless you install the 3rd party stuff & checks at start-up to be sure you have not removed it.)

That decision is totally up to you during installation however and you may like such toolbars. My notification is purely for your information to consider.

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I have long suspected the updates to some of these programs are not the program itself being updated but the installers incorporating the latest 3rd party sponsors. Why do they yet still lack support for DHT, TLS, GUESS CAPABLE, hostiles file support or countless other advances that were introduced into the original LimeWire versions 4.12, 4.14 and 4.18? I think a couple might have had UHC support at one point in time but seriously, why are they updating when nothing has been done to update their gnutella technology? What are they updating exactly?? Particularly when their GWebCache support file is totally outdated with GWC's that haven't been seen since 2010 or earlier (even that shows probably nothing within the program is being updated except perhaps the version number.) The LW 4 style clones technology appears to be locked into the 2003 to 2005 period. That's a long time ago!
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runt66 November 16th, 2013 05:08 PM

I think winmx 4.9.0 is a clone ; anyway , the first line on my upload page is always exactly the same ;

name; winmx music free exe ;
host ; 66.212.143.109.
Vendor ; orangewire 5 .6 .2

what do you reckon is going on here ??

Lord of the Rings November 17th, 2013 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by runt66 (Post 373071)
I think winmx 4.9.0 is a clone ; anyway , the first line on my upload page is always exactly the same ;

name; winmx music free exe ;
host ; 66.212.143.109.
Vendor ; orangewire 5 .6 .2

what do you reckon is going on here ??

Interesting question. AFAIK WinMX (Music at least) is a LW 4 clone. I have seen OrangeWire around but only as a bad client. By that I mean the only times I saw them was when one or two spam companies were using that & other software with the same or similar ip address. Why OrangeWire should show up in WinMx I have no idea. I do not recall that from the version I ran but I can recheck it.

As for a previous snapshot of Orangewire being among the clients used for ill-full purposes: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/attach...s-via-phex.png
I'm wondering if you got your WinMx from a different source to mine. In the sample image, the OrangeWire version is 5.6.2 which is possibly similar or equivalent to LPE, except the WinMx version I used was LW 4 equivalent.

Lord of the Rings November 17th, 2013 11:17 PM

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I have no idea what's happening there. Perhaps someone has repackaged/reworked the LPE version. After all it is 'open-source'. Seems WinMX free is maybe put together by different persons. If I can find a copy I might add it to the Clone connection installer.

Specifically the WinMX Music version I've tested 4.9.8 is a LW 4 clone. Snapshots show the startup screen & then the main interface with the About window sitting in the middle. There's no reference to OrangeWire. Also I've been connected to other WinMX Music versions previoiusly.

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As an off-topic, I haven't been using the network much for many months so will probably update the connection lists for all the gnutella clients late December. Recent tests showed the connection lists still work.

runt66 November 18th, 2013 02:27 PM

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...psa70ec6c0.jpg

runt66 November 18th, 2013 02:31 PM

Sorry gang , can someone explain how i can use windows vista paint to get the full photo of winmx ';

runt66 November 18th, 2013 02:38 PM

For some reason i can only get half a picture .

Lord of the Rings November 18th, 2013 03:13 PM

Maybe it is how you took the snapshot? Maybe the screenshot was not set wide enough.
How about take a snapshot of the other half and post that. ;)
I'm a mac person & we don't have print screen key on our keyboards.
You can also upload directly to the forum if you choose Advanced Reply.

runt66 November 18th, 2013 06:09 PM

When you click on message 5 , can you see all my pictures i have on photobucket ???

Lord of the Rings November 18th, 2013 07:38 PM

Yes. If you wish to avoid that, change the photobucket permissions for the other photos. Or put the other photos into Stories that only restricted persons can see. hmm even just putting them into stories might overcome that.

Stories are not hard to create, follow the photobucket instructions on how to do. A story is like a folder with specific images within it. If in doubt, send a question to photobucket support.

runt66 November 19th, 2013 03:11 PM

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...ps49f209df.jpg

runt66 November 19th, 2013 03:21 PM

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0694ba14.jpg

Lord of the Rings November 19th, 2013 04:48 PM

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Oh yes I see what you mean. I don't/didn't use WinMX Music on a regular basis and never saw that before. I'm guessing you are using same WinMX Music version as me.
Now, as for WinMX Music showing up as OrangeWire/5.6.2, I'm not sure. I'll need to search around to see if I can get a copy that does. I took snapshots of various clients over recent years, particularly if I saw a new one. Most recent one was one called PeerProject. Anyway, the image I've provided shows versions from snapshots from 2009/10 through to 2012 with the earlier ones nearer the top. I'm wondering if the WinMX Music devs have swapped to the LPE 5.6.2 engine. It appears the program is still updated occasionally. It makes me wonder if it is the same source program and also makes me wonder if it looks the same (like LW4.)
I have not received any notifications about an update for the program. I suffice to say they don't send out notifications for updates.

For me in the past, LW5/LPE, Phex and BearShare 5 show WinMX Music as being WinMX Music under the Vendor/Version display. Throughout this & previous years I've seen many WinMX Music users connected to me. Never seen OrangeWire with exception of what i mentioned earlier.

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On a side note, make sure you do not use the same port number for WinMX Music as you do for other programs. That might be related to why yours sees a firewall. I removed my router exception due to needing it for something else a few months ago. (It was difficult having so many rules for so many clone versions, since I have a limit to how many router rules I can have.) My WinMX Music always connects very quickly, even when not used for several months.

Lord of the Rings November 19th, 2013 05:07 PM

Oops, just discovered that the address of the OrangeWire you posted falls into a blocked range on the LW Security Blocklist.
Your listing does not show their port number, but it is my guess they use port 7001. Check this page http://www.gnutellaforums.com/open-d...imewire-7.html about half way down, the first black ip addresses you see where I found them via Phex. 66.212.143.104:7001 through to 66.212.143.116:7001
And the one shown uploading from you was 66.212.143.109
All belong to BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) and are known for upload slot containment (ie: will try to fill your upload slots & keep them busy, usually going after your largest files or largest collection of files. These are Download-Bots.) Here's my upload window from BearShare Click to see BearShare Upload window. Whilst using Phex I also had problems with same hosts since a year earlier filling my upload slots.

In retrospect, I have doubts the WinMX Music versions you were seeing are official WinMX Music versions but adapted by the anti-file-sharing company to behave like they do (BOTs). Your uploads might not have had more of them because your uploads are super busy anyway & they struggled to get a slot.
I've heard Vista firewall is same as Win XP firewall. If using Win 7 or later, the firewall has the ability to block ports such as 7001 and 27016 and can be set to be only active when using particular programs. (Port forwarding sometimes breaks/by-passes this firewall port block however!)

The security blocklist has ip ranges blocked from 66.211.128.0 through to 66.213.191.255 (these are corporate business ranges, mostly in the entertainment industry.) If you think that's too heavy, you could either use 66.212.0.0/16 or 66.212.143.0/24 if you wish to block them. The port 7001 bots are not spammers AFAIK, their objective is to fill your upload-slots in an attempt to prevent you sharing certain files to others.

runt66 November 24th, 2013 04:33 AM

My port number for winmx is 38120 ;

limewire 34772 ;

frostwire 4.21.8 is 45630 ;

frostwire 5.6.6 port is 55256 ;

so that is good , all different ;


but i have never selected these ports ; they just appear in the port options after i install any music sharing program .

runt66 November 24th, 2013 04:53 AM

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2a1caede.jpg

runt66 November 24th, 2013 04:55 AM

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...psc5715e8b.jpg

runt66 November 24th, 2013 05:05 AM

I have posted the 5 hosts i was connected to when orangewire was downloading ;

which is the suspicious one ????

Lord of the Rings November 24th, 2013 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by runt66 (Post 373103)
I have posted the 5 hosts i was connected to when orangewire was downloading ;

which is the suspicious one ????

I cannot ascertain suspicions about the peers you are connected to, only the OrangeWire host you upload to. That address should arguably be blocked. It's used by bots, not regular file-sharers. Either use 66.212.0.0/16 or 66.212.143.0/24 in the WinMX filter ip blocklist if you wish to block them. You could also use either 66.212.*.* or 66.212.143.* instead which is equivalent.

(Edit: The GTK-G (2007) is a browse-BOT you posted in post #16.)

The meaning of BOT, scroll down to the malicious purposes section to get an idea what they are set to do. The BMI bots are designed to fill upload slots & download as much as possible. Other kinds of bots of course include spam-bots and DDoS bots. One type of spam-bot uses port 27016 and is probably the most prolific spammer on the Gnutella network.

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Originally Posted by runt66 (Post 373097)
My port number for winmx is 38120 ;

limewire 34772 .... but i have never selected these ports ; they just appear in the port options after i install any music sharing program .

Looks like they are all grabbing UPnP ports. If you could be bothered, you could try setting a specific port for WinMX and port forwarding that port with your router's settings.
Just a side note: UDP port checking is often unreliable because packets are often lost, so the program might show as being UDP firewalled when in fact it is not. On the other hand, TCP port tests are usually 100% reliable.

BearShare 5 is a good example of unreliable UDP port tests. The program might show as being UDP firewalled immediately or after an hour but then an hour later be not firewalled. ie: the UDP test packets were lost during testing (not getting a response from the peer it sent the packet to.) BearShare 5 does UDP & TCP port tests periodically, I am not sure about LimeWire & other programs but would probably be similar.
(One other reason for BearShare showing as UDP firewalled when it is not, is it sent the UDP test packets to firewalled hosts.)

runt66 November 25th, 2013 05:47 PM

I have only blocked 66 212 143 109 to start with , so lets see what happens now ;

runt66 November 25th, 2013 05:51 PM

Limewire 5.3.6 .;



can this version play m4a ,
having some problems .

runt66 November 25th, 2013 05:55 PM

Still not getting emails when new messages are added to my threads ; any progress on that front .??

Lord of the Rings November 26th, 2013 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by runt66 (Post 373117)
Limewire 5.3.6 .;

can this version play m4a ,
having some problems .

Looks like the answer is no.
I only have LW 5.3.6 installed on Windows 7 and despite having LW set to play audio files, WMP always opens to play an m4a file.

I did a test to change LW to play m4a & it errored with need Java 6. So I set LW.java file to open it & nothing happened when playing from LW's library.
I did a test to change the file extension to mp4 instead & LW thinks it's a video so WMP opened it again.

I checked the changelog & most improvements or bug fixes for the media player were for video. However:
LimeWire 5.6.0 Beta
* Update the audio and video player to handle all codec formats which are available on a system.
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Originally Posted by runt66 (Post 373119)
Still not getting emails when new messages are added to my threads ; any progress on that front .??

This is a problem that's been happening on & off for quite a while. All we can do is apologise.

runt66 November 26th, 2013 06:03 AM

With vista , my itunes always opens up to play m4a and then my lw closes down completely ;

luckily the vast majority of my lw songs are mp3 which the built in lw audio player replays without any problem .

runt66 December 4th, 2013 06:07 PM

Lemonwire is a clone of limewire ; but members using it should ban and block both ,

65.199.18.150 and 65.199.18.142 ;

they are robots downloading hundreds of songs every hour ; genuine members dont get a fair go ;

runt66 December 9th, 2013 11:18 PM

Well , yes i do always use universal plug and play because all music sharing programs seem to strongly advise it ; they say it makes the whole network more stable and faster ;

from memory the original winmx forum advised me to do some port forwarding , but i just found it so hard and complicated ;

runt66 December 9th, 2013 11:34 PM

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9249daf3.jpg

runt66 December 10th, 2013 12:14 AM

Just blocking and banning that one host in message 20 has worked so far ; possibly only for a short while until the bad guys re program their evil robots ;

runt66 December 10th, 2013 12:22 AM

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...ps08be7a9b.jpg

runt66 December 10th, 2013 12:26 AM

Yes sir , nothing suspicious there , yet .

Lord of the Rings December 10th, 2013 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by runt66 (Post 373245)

The instructions from the site are: here and below.

1. Look for your password on the bottom of your router or in the paperwork that came with your router. Copy-paste the following number into your browser web address:
10.0.0.138
Press enter.
Then Login with the password from the earlier part of this step.

2. Click the Firewall Settings button which will then be displayed on screen after logging in.

3. Use the Select a computer box to choose a computer to forward ports to. This box contains a list of computer names that are visible on your network. Only one computer connected to the router?

4. Click the Add a new user-defined application link.

5. Add Application name, example: WinMX.

6. Add port number in each of the 'from' and 'to' range boxes. Example, port 38120

7. Choose UDP checkbox.

8. Click Add Definition.

9. Click Back button.

10. Select the application name you just created in the Applications list (WinMx), then click the Add button to move them to the Hosted Applications box.

When you are finished, click the Done button at the bottom of your screen.

runt66 February 20th, 2014 08:01 PM

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...pscd911fe1.jpg

runt66 February 20th, 2014 08:05 PM

What on earth is a banned greedy servent ???

Lord of the Rings February 21st, 2014 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by runt66 (Post 373569)
What on earth is a banned greedy servent ???

There is a comment or two about this by the LW devs several years ago. There is a maximum allowable number of uploads to a specific host. Beyond this they receive a temporary ban. I can't remember exactly how it works except I think the ban period is for about an hour or two, if they are banned again it applies for the entire session. This was based on number of requests, I think for number of files. But also intended to prevent downloading of same file over & over by same host.

What I can find after a search: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/open-d...reeloader.html, . . http://www.gnutellaforums.com/open-d...tml#post213603, . . http://www.gnutellaforums.com/limewi...tml#post334712

The following quotes are from 3.9.5 Beta & 4.1.5 Beta discussions:
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Originally Posted by sberlin
Re: Banned Greedy Servent
I had thought the banned stuff would only kick in if the person was trying to download the same file over and over...

The ban time isn't a specific length of time, but rather is based on the amount of requests from the host. We allow any request in the first 30 seconds we see that host, and then from then on we allow 1 request per 5 seconds. If they exceed that limit and continue to hammer, the amount of time they have to wait just grows and grows.

(And yes, client side queueing is needed, but will not be in 4.0.)

LW 5 used a variation of this system which in my experience seemed to be highly buggy with hosts being banned for almost no apparent reason. Also, this would remain in RAM memory so if you restarted LW5/LPE, the host could still get banned immediately they attempted to resume their download from you. I've seen a host get banned for trying to download a single file on many occasions. sighs. I suspect this system was based on number of request messages, not number of files. Seemed to be different logic used compared to LW 4 (& LW clones).

I think this auto-banning was also in defense against some of the older clients, which would not respect the usual or later rules of download engagement. And some clients like Morpheus would ignore queueing, somehow bumping hosts out of the queue until they reached no.1. But I'm talking about 9-10 years ago.

A preventative measure to stop this happening to you if downloading is not to queue up too many files to download from each search results. Choose 1, 2 or 3 at a time. In that way, if you are not sure they are all from same host you should not suffer the auto-ban issue. From SBerlin's description, sounds like you should wait a period of time before selecting another file to download from same host.

Sleepless February 23rd, 2014 12:28 AM

Someone really should start rewriting any of these clients from scratch. Things like the above defeat the purpose of P2P. where I (of someone) will find this very rare out of print album, and obviously double clicking every song on it, will be banned as a greedy servant.

Is there no way to add folder download? If not then someone should add it. That way a rare album is one request.

Lord of the Rings February 23rd, 2014 07:59 PM

If I remember correctly, DC had that ability. But I don't think it exists within the Gnutella protocol.
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Originally Posted by sberlin
(And yes, client side queueing is needed, but will not be in 4.0.)

I don't know if 'client side queuing' was ever incorporated either. Doesn't sound like it, despite devs considering it for several years.

(I'm not sure when LW 4.0 came out but must have been around late 2003 or early 2004. Looks like for 6 years the ability was never added.)

runt66 February 12th, 2015 05:52 PM

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...pswh2prsj6.jpg

runt66 February 12th, 2015 06:01 PM

I dont want to see this error message ;
i want to see the incoming searches just scrolling down as usual ;

can i change my settings in some way to achieve that .???

Lord of the Rings February 12th, 2015 08:32 PM

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No, not really. I presume you do not have become an ultrapeer disabled in advanced settings. It's not unusual for the incoming searches to not show as a leaf.

I notice your WinMX shows signs of a firewall. You will need to check the reason for that before you will be able to become an ultrapeer again.

I installed the WinMX Music on a different Win XP & it connected immediately (comes with its own connection file) & connected with UPnP fine according to what the signs suggest.
(My other Win XP comes up with error message when I open apps even though they do open but refuse to connect, so I may need to totally wipe that XP & reinstall it.)

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BTW I noticed this WinMX Music free installer said there was an update which is 5.8. My original WinMX installer didn't work because the site it obtains the data from has vanished. So I used this WMX free installer instead. The installer process went through 5 to 8 different sponsored 3rd party junkware options.
I'm curious to know what so-called improvements they've made to WinMX over the past 3 years. It still doesn't support DHT which LW started to do with LW 4.18.

runt66 February 12th, 2015 10:55 PM

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...psxbh1hxem.jpg

runt66 February 12th, 2015 10:57 PM

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...pszvxyemve.jpg

Ultrapeer is not disabled ;

what is the risk in totally turning off my firewall and just relying on windows defender and free avg ???

Lord of the Rings February 13th, 2015 12:08 AM

I'm not knowledgeable enough about Windows security, but would not recommend turning your firewall off.

If you're getting a firewalled icon then it's usually either due to no firewall exception (or needs to be re-added) or UPnP is failing. If the latter then you may need to port forward for the port it uses. But it needs to be a port no other application uses, including any other file-sharing program.

runt66 February 13th, 2015 02:05 AM

Thank you , the alert reminder emails are coming every time now ;

runt66 February 15th, 2015 05:41 PM

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...psuwtrua0a.jpg

runt66 February 15th, 2015 05:45 PM

Well this clone of lw is firewalled also but the incoming searches are coming up as normal ;

runt66 February 15th, 2015 05:57 PM

I tried to solve the problem by going to aresgalaxyonline.com and updating winmx to the latest version but my free avg alerted that as a major virus ; i ignored that and ordered the download to proceed ; but it just says the download can not be done and will not be installed ;

Lord of the Rings February 15th, 2015 09:40 PM

Do LemonWire and WinMX Music use the same ports? Make sure they don't.

Optional: I don't have the most recent WinMX Music installer but used the following one & it then said there was an update and it updated itself from memory. There's nothing in my Downloads folder. WinMX Music free, but note this is the old version. After installing it will ask if you wish to update & an installer will temporarily download. I don't know if your AV will panic with it though.

Just be careful of the installation steps, so watch it carefully. There's many 3rd party installation options (between 6 to 8 of them.) I clicked Decline to all of them.

runt66 February 16th, 2015 12:24 AM

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6ptb1ymj.jpg

http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/...pszecyoffy.jpg

Looks like they are using different ports ;

Lord of the Rings February 16th, 2015 08:35 PM

You could try port forwarding for WinMX (and LemonWire) if you wish to see if that fixes the 'firewall' problem.

You have one or two software firewalls? If you have a 3rd party one then the programs will need to be added as exceptions to them.

runt66 February 17th, 2015 07:58 PM

Definitely no third party firewalls ; just the one that came bundled up with the original brand new windows hp vista security system
; i have ticked both winmx and lemonwire so they can both connect to the internet ;

i shall try some port forwarding and report back the results in a few days ;


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