Here's an idea about blocking IP addresses though I'm not sure how practical it is as there may be flaws in the concept.

One guy mentioned right clicking multiple listings of crap files in a search to block their IP addresses. If these IP address could be transmitted to a server of Limewire's and stored and counted as to which IP addresses are blocked then compile a list of the most blocked IP addressses that Limewire can download and auto block upon startup of the Limewire program and thus filter out malicious Limewire users before you even start searching the network!

Something similar to Peerguardian but integrated into Limewire's program. Just have a user created blocklist everyone can choose to use or not use.

Anyone other then me like this idea?

I see a (potentially big) problem:
There are many many people who use LW (or any other Gnutella client) that don't stroll around the forums to get a general idea of what to not dld. They aren't trying to help distribute those crap files, but they also don't know which file is a potential crapper and which isn't.
Now, let's say I found a crap file and want to use that nifty little feature to block the IPs of all those sharing said file.
What happens if, at the moment I click the button to block these people, there are 700 other normal users who accidentally downloaded that same file?
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While the server idea is good (although LW doesn't have any such server AFAIK. It would have to be a third-party server, but servers cost money...) the big dev heads in LW would have to really think it through before implementing any such feature in order to avoid the above...

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There's some users who have reported that they were in the habit of banning hosts who they couldn't browse because they thought they were freeloaders. Browsing is a very unreliable tool. One minute you can't browse them, 10 mins later it can come up with 600 results for that same person.

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If you want to be safe, download peer gauiden, this has a list of all the ips from companys like dell,mircosoft etc..

I can see the flaw in this idea. Perhaps educating the limewire public in general like having a popup window that lasts only a minute or two that tells of these virus files and advertisement files would help. When you first install and run the program at least. Just another idea

Yea and umm a flaw with blocking people is that a lotta people are behind routers which means their IP changes every time they reboot. plus a lotta times the router will block useres from browsing the host.

Some routers switch IP's frequently, and ISP's switch user IP's on a consistent basis. The major flaw in this is that after the one jerk gets banned, someone else takes all the crap. I've been banned in online games before and all I had to do was go into the command prompt and type in "ipconfig /release" then "ipconfig /renew" and I was already on a new ip. The only way to totally block a person would be through program cd keys, but it's not very wise to be releasing this.

I just tried that and it gave me the same IP address.

now thats not really true they could always block it by the MAC addresses or the serial numbers but that owuld be pretty bad too.