I wasn't ridiculing you or anything. I was making a practical point. There's already (as of about 6 weeks ago) new spam that's reached the network. These are files that show up as the same size as the original. The way to detect them is they show up with hundreds or thousands of results. With 100 for the 1st, perhaps 99 for the next. These are "fake" files & can't be downlded. That's why size filtering won't work. I believe a size filter would be handy for other purposes (I requested it 2 years ago), but not so for the purpose you were suggesting. Here's another type of spam: Sponsored Results (click on link)

Below is the search results for the new spam of fake files with the 2nd part of the gif being the lower part of the search results. BTW on my mac after several mins of trying to connect to these fake files, they would self-cancel. This doesn't seem to occur for people using windows.

If you're a softw engineer, perhaps you have other suggestions about how to fight these organisations/groups who are trying to destroy the gnutella network.

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thanx for the quick reply)

perhaps i might take you suggestion to write new software to better our gnutella networks!


but i think software can easily be detected also limewire software should be able to search and detect REAL files not auto generated or fake files... it can be easily added to thier next version... id try but its no legal to reverse engineer software and modify it with out permission especialy if its copyrighted

What about using BLOCK HOST?

I keep coming across spam files that at 134.4k... and they seem to be for searches that otherwise turn up nothing.

All of these files come from a few hosts that refuse to let you browse them. Is that the smoking gun we can use? Of course they can beat this by changing IPs just as they could a file-size filter.

There's no way to beat spammers but you can make them work harder LOL.