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![]() These spams don't just come from spurious search results. Sometimes one gets legitimate search results (i.e. they are not from a T1 source, have only one or a handful of sources, and the filename isn't a simple derivative of your query) but downloading them results in a spam. It looks like the download "mesh" gets polluted too, and when you try to download a file from a "real" search result, sometimes a spammer gets in at that point and substitutes junk. If Limewire sent hashes with search results and checked files against search result hashes it would catch these with "File corrupted", but it doesn't -- and lots of other broken files don't get detected either. Looks like it trusts the host sending the file to be honest about the hash and the file. ![]() |
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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 |