As Peerless suggested, spam has nothing to do with the version of LW you are using.

The fact is there are lots & lots of spammers on the network. Their objective is to make people like you feel like giving up attempting to use the gnutella network.

What LW 4.16 does do is give you access to earlier LW version users because LW 5 & 4.18 prevent people using versions of LW earlier than 4.14 connecting to them, thus blocking out part of the network. (I use LW 4.16 & connect to people using versions as early as 4.8). LW 4 has more tools than LW 5. LW 4.16 will resume LW 5's incomplete files efficiently whereas LW 4.18 seems to have a problem.

Here's some tips about searching on the gnutella network: 1. Virus thread: Typical virus spam file sizes - Make a note of them (click on blue link to see),

2. http://www.gnutellaforums.com/tips-t...avoidance tips, __ 3. How to find music

BTW if you downgrade from LW 5 back to LW 4.16, you need to find the Downloads.dat file in the preferences folder & move it to the incomplete folder before installing LW 4.16. This should be done whilst LW is not open. After installing & opening LW 4.16, then go to Library window, find incomplete folder, select all incomplete files & press Resume button. This will force the incomplete files from LW 5 to resume again.

I will once again suggest that all users of the gnutella network use PeerGuardian while they are on the network...it will at the very least keep you from being connected to spam UPs...and will in some ways mitigate the attacks that get directed at you for just being connected to the network...

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thanks very much. i do realize that spam has nothing to do with the LW version i was just a bit pissed off at the time and needed to vent.
btw thanks for the virus onfo, much appreciated.

cheers matt

also right into bitzi now. don't know how i ever survived without it and urge everyone to get familiar with it as it will save you a huge amount of heartache.

i agree

I'm sure their IP addys are in the PeerGuardian 2 database...the problem is plenty of people (who's IPs are not in the PG2 base) don't use PG2 and they down the files and spread them further....

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is there a simple way of stopping the junk that i get when i search ?
say i search for a movie. i get the same junk no matter what i'm looking for, so i turn the junk filter on and now i get no results in the search at all. go advanced and try more searches but have the same results.
as i said is there a simple way to prevent this ? (no computer gobble gook)
i notice that it is intermitent though, if i get really annoyed at LW i go away for a few months and when i come back it works perfectly for at least one or two times and then the same problems arise again.
LW 5 really bugged me so i'm on 4.16 which i really like the look of and the features, if only i could get the little bugger to work properly.
any help would be greatly appreciated. mac leopard.

cheers mat.

Always going to be spammers out there. Sometimes it's worse than others due to how close the spammers come into your search horizon. Sometimes you might be connected directly to a spammer that is in ultrapeer mode, that's when the spam gets incredibly bad. Some tips here which also applies to video How to find music

As for the junk filter, set it to show junk at bottom of search results. Also, turn the filter strength down lowish. I think mine is set at about 5-10% (near far left of slider.) Some sample junk file sizes, names & other identifying information: Virus thread: Typical virus spam file sizes - Make a note of them (click on blue link to see)

I've been testing vuze and lime and guess what vuze is better than this crap these lame *** techies are trying to pimp out to all the people who want the simplest stuff, it took my 2 hours to get one song from lime then i tried vuze, 2 min man, I'm sick of my downloads telling me waiting too, waited an hour for limecrap to tell there's no hosts witch were numbering in the 10's.

LOTR: No offense, but Phex is a waste of time too, almost all its connections are Limewire, and when it connects to Limewire ALL the same problems are there. Phex says it filters, but I don't see it, and when I filter, there is nothing real left, so Phex is just Limewire with a different face.

no...Phex is NOT LW with a different face....that's Frostwire....

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