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Audio Type search junk sample file sizes. Title, Artist & Album search all resulted in same or similar results in finding junk files.

Virus thread: Typical virus spam file sizes - Make a note of them-audio-junk-search.gif (click thumbnail to see larger size)

The sample below is a dual search using Album & Bitrate set at 320 kbps. Notice the junk shows 320 at the end of the name. Also notice the bit rate of the junk does not show kbps. The other result whited out was a stray I think. I would normally recommend adding .wma to your Word Filter, since there is far too much .wma junk around & many have not only viruses but also 'other' more dangerous things attached to them such as Rootkits.

Virus thread: Typical virus spam file sizes - Make a note of them-audio-junk-search-album-bit.gif (click thumbnail to see larger size)

Spam from 0 KB -> 869 MB size ! Below is a combination of a few searches showing both the sizes of spam from small up to large, and includes the 'typical' dupe names they frequently use. I coloured in a few of the file types simply to make it easier to identify spam sizes for those media types. The search id3 description tag for the wma file was the same for the other wma files too, ie: despite being spammed, it shows the file did not match the search criteria. I deliberately made the image wide to show mp3's which show the ...mp3 are not mp3's & shows up in the file type column, not the file name column. None of the mp3 files shown on this example image are true audio files. The larger ones around 3 & 5 MB in size are viruses!! The video files around 10 - 11 MB in size are porn spam. Almost all the zip & exe & rar files shown here are viruses. The 449.3 KB file might be named anything porn related adjoining your search term. You will notice one of the 449.3 KB files has same attribute as the fake mp3's. A ...mpg which shows it's a fake video file. This is not all the spam sizes out there. There are more, and more arrive on the scene so be careful. Remember for audio, no bitrate makes the file automatically suspicious. If an mp3 has a bit rate above 320 kbps, it is fake. (Unless it is a FLAC or Apple Lossless m4a file.) Generally such fake mp3's have no id3 tag, & often no information under the artist & album columns.

Virus thread: Typical virus spam file sizes - Make a note of them-spam-many-sizesh.gif (click thumbnail to see larger size)


Other type of spam you will find. Especially music searches will have words following whatever it is you are searching. Here it is important to note the artificial words they put at the end of the words you searched (and no bitrate), the file size is not necessarily the obvious thing here. Example below:

Virus thread: Typical virus spam file sizes - Make a note of them-new-junk.gif (click thumbnail to see larger size)

Some new Junk seen in search results in late 2010. LimeWire or LimewirePromo is a common word to find in music searches. All types search you will find lots of zip & rar files. Torrent, Full, Update, Original, 2010 (the year) are words commonly used in spam. Below was a search using silly terms which attracted spam:

Virus thread: Typical virus spam file sizes - Make a note of them-spam-results29nov2010.gif (click thumbnail to see larger size), and Video Spam in 2012: This spam's title usually replicates your search term.

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Last edited by Lord of the Rings; June 25th, 2009 at 02:44 AM.