Gnutella Forums  

Go Back   Gnutella Forums > Current Gnutella Client Forums > LimeWire+WireShare (Cross-platform) > Technical Support > General Windows Support
Register FAQ The Twelve Commandments Members List Calendar Arcade Find the Best VPN Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

General Windows Support For questions about Windows issues regarding LimeWire or WireShare or related questions


Welcome To Gnutella Forums

You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content, fun aspects such as the image caption contest and play in the arcade, and access many other special features after your registration and email confirmation. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! (click here) (Note: we use Yandex mail server so make sure yandex is not on your email filter or blocklist.)

If you have any problems with the Gnutella Forum registration process or your Gnutella Forum account login, please contact us (this is not for program use questions.) Your email address must be legitimate and verified before becoming a full member of the forums. Please be sure to disable any spam filters you may have for our website, so that email messages can reach you.
Note: Any other issue with registration, etc., send a Personal Message (PM) to one of the active Administrators: Lord of the Rings or Birdy.

Once registered but before posting, members MUST READ the FORUM RULES (click here) and members should include System details - help us to help you (click on blue link) in their posts if their problem relates to using the program. Whilst forum helpers are happy to help where they can, without these system details your post might be ignored. And wise to read How to create a New Thread

Thank you

If you are a Spammer click here.
This is not a business advertising forum, all member profiles with business advertising will be banned, all their posts removed. Spamming is illegal in many countries of the world. Guests and search engines cannot view member profiles.



           Deutsch?              Español?                  Français?                   Nederlands?
   Hilfe in Deutsch,   Ayuda en español,   Aide en français et LimeWire en françaisHulp in het Nederlands

Forum Rules

Support Forums

Before you post to one of the specific Client Help and Support Conferences in Gnutella Client Forums please look through other threads and Stickies that may answer your questions. Most problems are not new. The Search function is most useful. Also the red Stickies have answers to the most commonly asked questions. (over 90 percent).
If your problem is not resolved by a search of the forums, please take the next step and post in the appropriate forum. There are many members who will be glad to help.
If you are new to the world of file sharing please do not be shy! Everyone was ‘new’ when they first started.

When posting, please include details for:
Your Operating System ....... Your version of your Gnutella Client (* this is important for helping solve problems) ....... Your Internet connection (56K, Cable, DSL) ....... The exact error message, if one pops up
Any other relevant information that you think may help ....... Try to make your post descriptive, specific, and clear so members can quickly and efficiently help you. To aid helpers in solving download/upload problems, LimeWire and Frostwire users must specify whether they are downloading a torrent file or a file from the Gnutella network.
Members need to supply these details >>> System details - help us to help you (click on blue link)


Moderators

There are senior members on the forums who serve as Moderators. These volunteers keep the board organized and moving.
Moderators are authorized to: (in order of increasing severity)
Move posts to the correct forums. Many times, members post in the wrong forum. These off-topic posts may impede the normal operation of the forum.
Edit posts. Moderators will edit posts that are offensive or break any of the House Rules.
Delete posts. Posts that cannot be edited to comply with the House Rules will be deleted.
Restrict members. This is one of the last punishments before a member is banned. Restrictions may include placing all new posts in a moderation queue or temporarily banning the offender.
Ban members. The most severe punishment. Three or more moderators or administrators must agree to the ban for this action to occur. Banning is reserved for very severe offenses and members who, after many warnings, fail to comply with the House Rules. Banning is permanent. Bans cannot be removed by the moderators and probably won't be removed by the administration.


The Rules

1. Warez, copyright violation, or any other illegal activity may NOT be linked or expressed in any form. Topics discussing techniques for violating these laws and messages containing locations of web sites or other servers hosting illegal content will be silently removed. Multiple offenses will result in consequences. File names are not required to discuss your issues. If filenames are copyright then do not belong on these forums & will be edited out or post removed. Picture sample attachments in posts must not include copyright infringement.

2. Spamming and excessive advertising will not be tolerated. Commercial advertising is not allowed in any form, including using in signatures.

3. There will be no excessive use of profanity in any forum.

4. There will be no racial, ethnic, or gender based insults, or any other personal attacks.

5. Pictures may be attached to posts and signatures if they are not sexually explicit or offensive. Picture sample attachments in posts must not include copyright infringement.

6. Remember to post in the correct forum. Take your time to look at other threads and see where your post will go. If your post is placed in the wrong forum it will be moved by a moderator. There are specific Gnutella Client sections for LimeWire, Phex, FrostWire, BearShare, Gnucleus, Morpheus, and many more. Please choose the correct section for your problem.

7. If you see a post in the wrong forum or in violation of the House Rules, please contact a moderator via Private Message or the "Report this post to a moderator" link at the bottom of every post. Please do not respond directly to the member - a moderator will do what is required.

8. Any impersonation of a forum member in any mode of communication is strictly prohibited and will result in banning.

9. Multiple copies of the same post will not be tolerated. Post your question, comment, or complaint only once. There is no need to express yourself more than once. Duplicate posts will be deleted with little or no warning. Keep in mind a forum censor may temporarily automatically hold up your post, if you do not see your post, do not post again, it will be dealt with by a moderator within a reasonable time. Authors of multiple copies of same post may be dealt with by moderators within their discrete judgment at the time which may result in warning or infraction points, depending on severity as adjudged by the moderators online.

10. Posts should have descriptive topics. Vague titles such as "Help!", "Why?", and the like may not get enough attention to the contents.

11. Do not divulge anyone's personal information in the forum, not even your own. This includes e-mail addresses, IP addresses, age, house address, and any other distinguishing information. Don´t use eMail addresses in your nick. Reiterating, do not post your email address in posts. This is for your own protection.

12. Signatures may be used as long as they are not offensive or sexually explicit or used for commercial advertising. Commercial weblinks cannot be used under any circumstances and will result in an immediate ban.

13. Dual accounts are not allowed. Cannot explain this more simply. Attempts to set up dual accounts will most likely result in a banning of all forum accounts.

14. Video links may only be posted after you have a tally of two forum posts. Video link posting with less than a 2 post tally are considered as spam. Video link posting with less than a 2 post tally are considered as spam.

15. Failure to show that you have read the forum rules may result in forum rules breach infraction points or warnings awarded against you which may later total up to an automatic temporary or permanent ban. Supplying system details is a prerequisite in most cases, particularly with connection or installation issues.

Violation of any of these rules will bring consequences, determined on a case-by-case basis.


Thank You! Thanks for taking the time to read these forum guidelines. We hope your visit is helpful and mutually beneficial to the entire community.


Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
  #51 (permalink)  
Old August 14th, 2005
Lerpa
Guest
 
Posts: n/a
Exclamation

OK, I have HAD IT.

I did a search for images with query "y z" (query words replaced by letters because, frankly, it's none of your damn business what I'm downloading or searching for). One of the results has the filename "x y z" (x is a word not in my search query), only one source, and a modem speed.

IT TURNS OUT TO BE A ****** IPOD SPAM.

This is ridiculous. Even normal, legit-looking search results can no longer be trusted, nevermind the ones showing swarms of T1 sources that are always named after your search query. There was no way even in principle to spot this thing lurking among the non-spammers in the search results -- it had a typical size and format for a photograph (a jpeg in the 20-100k range). At least the wmvs are anomalously small in filesize compared to legit videos, but there seems to be NO FRIGGING WAY TO AVOID THE JPEGS. This HAS TO CHANGE!

I don't care what it takes. MAKE THIS STOP. NOW.

I can't even delete the damn thing until the next time I want to reboot, since when I do, the next time Limewire downloads a file explorer will hang and the whole machine will become slow and unusable -- yes, this happens any time I delete anything from the download directory and then download something new, no thanks to ****** Microsoft and their incompetent armies of Middle Eastern minimum wage programmers. Most computer companies are smart enough to hire those only in their call centers, for crying out loud.

Needless to say, I don't autoshare my downloads or share the directory either...and this is a large chunk of the reason why. (Limewire choking if you share 10,000 files is another. Illegal files masquerading as normal content is another. Other spams are another...)

This bullshit has to end. NOW.
Reply With Quote
  #52 (permalink)  
Old August 14th, 2005
Disciple
 
Join Date: July 28th, 2005
Posts: 12
ALimewireUser is flying high
Default

I for one totally understand your frustration. The main rule of thumb I live by to avoid these files is the same as what you mentioned, look at the file size. If you're looking at downloading a movie that's only about 98k, it's an IPod ad.

Also, I've only seen these ads only pop up as Images or Video. Make sure that, whenever possible, you target the search towards the file type you're looking for, instead of doing an Any Type search. If you are searching for Audio, do an Audio search. If you want a movie file, search for Video and check the file sizes (a decent sized .avi file should be somewhere near 180mb for 1/2 hour). If you search for Images, you're on your own. If you search for Programs, Heaven help you!

Sorry to hear about your deletion/download hang problem, that's a new one. While it may be a Windows problem, I hardly think it's cause to put the blame on a one particular segment of all programming professionals, let alone slander an entire region of the world. But that's just me
Reply With Quote
  #53 (permalink)  
Old August 14th, 2005
Lord of the Rings's Avatar
ContraBanned
 
Join Date: June 30th, 2004
Location: Middle of the ocean apparently (middle earth)
Posts: 618
Lord of the Rings has a distinguished reputationLord of the Rings has a distinguished reputationLord of the Rings has a distinguished reputation
Default

Well the rumours I've heard are that an anti-spam filter will be introduced into LW in version 5 or 5.2 or thereabouts (with any luck!) Apparently one of the people who donates code to LW has already developed one but it still needs a little more work on it.
Reply With Quote
  #54 (permalink)  
Old August 20th, 2005
AnotherLWUser
Guest
 
Posts: n/a
Default

Well, we all know how far we can trust rumours, don't we...
Reply With Quote
  #55 (permalink)  
Old August 21st, 2005
Novicius
 
Join Date: August 21st, 2005
Posts: 1
n96113030 is flying high
Default HELP! - porn Spam

Hi All
Im new to this so please bear with me..
I have been a limewire user for sometime
but recently i have noticed that everytime
i search for music , in the results there is always the same three porn files. I have tried everything to try remove it from blocking to running Spybot to Spyware docter all in vain. Though i think the auto download has ceased. Still its very annoying to have those porn files show up each time.Does anyone know of a way to rid it? I have also tried unistall and install newer version of limewire.
thankyou heap
Jane
Reply With Quote
  #56 (permalink)  
Old October 19th, 2005
Lord of the Rings's Avatar
ContraBanned
 
Join Date: June 30th, 2004
Location: Middle of the ocean apparently (middle earth)
Posts: 618
Lord of the Rings has a distinguished reputationLord of the Rings has a distinguished reputationLord of the Rings has a distinguished reputation
Default Music Spam

I noticed this a few weeks back. But seems more prevalent now. 134.4 KB for mp3 spam. And 60.5 KB for a zip which I believe is no doubt a virus. I haven't checked their contents or attempted to download them. But arranging your downlds by size will at least put these files at the bottom of the list. (ie: double-click the top of the size column will arrange the search results with largest at the top. See sample Arrange search results by size (click on link).) After all, how many true mp3's are less than 2 MB in size. lol I wonder if the RIAA have put a DRM license on these files. duh

Update: What these 134.4 KB files actually are: 1. bill clinton voice-overs, 2. Clinton Trojan Need a Fix Limewire!!!, 3. efreeclub.com (Notice the T1 source for the spam ... same as the earlier discussed type of spam.)




* Late edit to show more recent examples of auto-generated spam: Typical file SIZEs of Spammed Virus files posing as audio files (click on link)

.
Attached Thumbnails
autogenerated spam results-mp3-spam.gif  

Last edited by Lord of the Rings; December 11th, 2009 at 12:38 PM. Reason: Edit to add link to newer sample images & file sizes to beware of.
Reply With Quote
  #57 (permalink)  
Old January 23rd, 2007
Apprentice
 
Join Date: September 5th, 2006
Posts: 6
theamazingbender is flying high
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord of the Rings
Well the rumours I've heard are that an anti-spam filter will be introduced into LW in version 5 or 5.2 or thereabouts (with any luck!) Apparently one of the people who donates code to LW has already developed one but it still needs a little more work on it.
when do these come out
Reply With Quote
  #58 (permalink)  
Old March 28th, 2007
Novicius
 
Join Date: March 28th, 2007
Posts: 1
sbben76 is flying high
Default

OK i know this thread is pretty old but the problem has only gotten worse. I started thinking of some fundamental changes to the software that could (potential) be a fix.

I use frostwire which I understand is open source. I plan on taking a look at the code this week to see how feasible this might be. Basically we need to verify our hosts before we display them in the search results. Here's what a conversation might look like now.

mycomp: Hey do you have this file "filename.ext"?
spammer: yeah i have "filename.ext"
mycomp: ok thanks, ill display it in the search results

What we need to do is verify the host is not automatically generating files before we consider them having the first file. Like this:

mycomp: Hey do you have this file "filename.ext"?
spammer: yeah i have "filename.ext"
mycomp: ok, well do you have "sdfgisdf.ext"?
spammer: yeah i have "sdfgisdf.ext"
mycomp: you must be a spammer because "sdfgisdf.ext" likley does not exist, ignoring search result.

What do you guys think? Without knowing a lot about how gnutella works i think this could be possible.
Reply With Quote
  #59 (permalink)  
Old April 29th, 2007
Enthusiast
 
Join Date: April 29th, 2007
Posts: 30
nowshining is flying high
Default

awesome that looks like it might work. also i agree spam sucks, u could just also disable viewing of T1 - T3 lines.. I think tho u'd also disable a lot of people esp. on a modem dialup that input that for better results. oh and where i live the spammers are on at around 11pm - 5am pacific time. Around that time frame or so.. I do download viruses sometimes to test AVG free, also avoid anything with wyzo in it it's a trojan, i got that sometimes when searching also I've been getting results that aren't what i searched for.

Example:

My search query: palm applications

Results: freescreensaver
setup
workgames
..........
i use frostwire by the way.....


edit: by the way i use comodo firewall with checksum verification on (disabled by default I believe) also i have all tcp incoming and udp incoming blocked and only have all tcp out allowed and udp only allowed out to two certain dns servers. Also with comodo firewall u can disable svchost.exe from accessing the net and i think that zonealarm u can't. U only have to allow it when visiting the windows update website and if using automatic updates, i got it disabled tho and timesync, so whatever it wants to sync to is a question in my mind, however when i dialup i get svchost blocked logs...
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Search results disappointing ... biased results with Spam ChrisAvalon Open Discussion topics 63 April 5th, 2008 06:07 PM
confused(spam showing in results) xand_scenex Download/Upload Problems 2 February 11th, 2007 02:38 PM
no results, just spam dapork Open Discussion topics 3 August 30th, 2006 08:43 PM
autogenerated spam results superesonator General P2P Network Discussion 8 February 12th, 2005 07:23 PM
Spam or What? Unregistered Open Discussion topics 2 June 26th, 2002 05:52 PM


All times are GMT -7. The time now is 01:59 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
SEO by vBSEO 3.6.0 ©2011, Crawlability, Inc.

Copyright © 2020 Gnutella Forums.
All Rights Reserved.