Spam!!!!!!
 

:mad:

Whats up with all the spam when i am seaching for a song?
Such as:
-steven spielberg gets a hilarious prank phone call
-01 track 1, track 9, ect.
-********mp3.com


any way to stop that stuff from coming up????

Unfortunatley the network is full of it....Check this sticky out it has some great tips on searching and recieving good results...:rolleyes_2:
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...highlight=spam

Yeah i get that too!
Its very ....!

And blocking terms dont work at all... Well, it do work... for a little bit... only the filename... but the comment... 'Not Related To: (The name that u were searching for)'... dont block...
I tried to block 'Not Related To', but its not checking the comment... So they still showed up...

Also the Filesize, i had a file in downloadlist... only it needed more sources... i searched for the name + filesize... but filesize became filename aswell...

Did you try just blocking related and not not related to

It's enough to block one word. Actually it's more effective to block one word than a sentence.

Not that I know if it blocks it or not, because I have never seen that comment

I get that spam to. This is not a real file. Let's just say i'm looking for coca cola. I just made up a filename so it's not copywrited. At the top it will show files like track one. Or stuff saying steven spielberg gets a prank phone call. And one the comments for all the songs it says '' Not related to the coca cola''. Since that's what I searched for. It's so annoying!!!!!!!

Actually I have seen them as well, this is an example of a search for a popular artist here in Oz....All the fake crap stays at the top and then you have the genuine after it.....

Attachment 3218

03 track 3 will say not related to...and then the artists name...
So maybe just use the word track....

The same thing happens as wondering why explained.

It's really strange because you can rearrange by comment. Can't really see why the keyword filter won't filter them if Limewire notices them.

@WW

From the screenshots I see these are .wma files, so block .wma like I have told everyone thousands of times now

No wonder these results don't show in my searches ;)

There is a list of words and extensions to block in the thread you pointed to

see Extending the keyword filter in Jira/searching

https://www.limewire.org/jira/browse/GUI-144

It's totally pissing me of that so few people vote for these various improvements to happen.

They come here to the Gnutella Forums crying about this doesn't work and that should be done. Is it really to much to ask that they register at www.limewire.org , vote and maybe even comment on why this is important. Maybe... Just maybe the developers would actually listen then.

As i said before, the blockchecker, checks the filename, and not the comment...

Im looking much for videos. Avatar, DBZ/DBGT.
For avatar, i search 'Avatar Book', cuz in any file name it says 'Avatar Book 1 Chapter 1' or something, so thats alright

But with 'DBGT'... Well just try... u get very small files, all files i dont want!

And typing 'Dragonball GT' also dont work... Well it do work, but then u do get the English version of GT, and i dont like the background-sound on english version...

Now... i was searching for 'The Awakening Story'... music... well what do u think it shows up? The Roling Stones and more of those things... And i dont want The Roling Stones, they dont even have a song called to 'The Awakening Story'... It is of Faye Wong...

Then i searched ''The Awakening Story' 'Faye'', watch good, i do ' around the words by searching... I have get 20 of the 1346 files found, of Faye Wong! The other things are with Not Related To....



For the next version of Limewire, they must make something, that it checks the comment of the files....

Well how about everybody do something about it

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=64627

Sleepless, I don't use the filter, I never have...I've done enough research to know what's fake and what's not...I was just showing an example of what these guys where seeing...:blink:

Ohhh. Still.. Remember to vote ;)

I voted. I registered and now i'm voting a lot.

If u ask me, limewire must be better...

They already do split things...
Filesize, and filename, filetype

But filename must be 'title' and 'artist', those 2 in a own column
Like by kazaa
This way they are be able to search on artist i think...

And i think, after this, that spam go away too...

Well, just think about it... Now in the spam files, it says 'Not Related To: (the search term)'... But that is comment...
If u can do like by kazaa, a box, and u choose to Artist, u search for 'Final Fantasy', then he will only check the files on artist, if there is Final Fantasy in it, then it shows up...

If i could program with exe files, i did make it myself... but i cant... i can only php, html, mysql... but thats alot differents i think...


I also think, that they use something like %s or something in the comment by the files..., and that %s will change into the searchterm... But the makers of limewire must block that... or do something about that... Im not sure about this, but i think that they do it that way... By Printer, u have something that it says Page 1 of the 2, and if u go to settings u also see something like that...
'Page %p of %ptot' or something
Well, I have see something before... So i think that the files with 'Not Related To', do the same... otherwise i dont get it... why should people make about 50.000 files with differents words after the Not Related To:

marking them as junk
 

I seem to have been fairly successful marking them as junk, but there doesn't seem to be an option to not display junk results, so the mark isn't really that helpful.

I use Limewire.

It would seem to me that this problem would have to be solved at the network level, to not allow these files to show up in search results at all.

A good way to get rid of an undesirable file like this in the results is by going in the "Location" column on the right side of the search window (if enabled) and see who hosts it. Go to "Tools > Options > Filters > Hosts" and type in the IP (range)(s) you want to block. Sorry if I'm numerically dim--I've tried it before, and it's somehow effective.

Would that work even though most of these spam results are on multiple (usually 40-80) IPs?

Spam
 

Two things iv'e noticed re spam results, one as has been mentioned elsewhere, if you cant ' Browse' sources, they are often spam, second also a question, has anyone noticed that when the network is especially busy, i.e. saturday nights etc.. you get hardly any spam results in searches???? it does seem to be a function of how many genuine hosts are online !:xeri_ok1ani:
N2

This is really ****ing annoying. Now half of the songs I search for aren't even there. They've just been wiped out with all this shitty spam. Whoever is uploading these files is ruining the network. I also get a load of spam .mov files for when I search for videos. It's extremely annoying and needs to be stopped.

Spam when downloading
 

I just paid for the pro version and I am not happy at all. I tried to download songs and every song is bill clinton's voice with some advertisement...what is that? How do I get rid of it...what did I pay for?

Then I noticed they say "no refunds"...are you kidding me? This is junk! I downloaded 54 songs and everyone that I have played has the stupid bill clinton advertisement. What can we do about this? Bring attention to this organization. This is not what I paid for.

Springs,
It takes a little time and effort to be able to recognise fake files,like.mov and .zip files of certain sizes.avoid results with multiple hosts,i.e. 40 or more,
please look in the forum using the ''Search'' function,type in phrases like 'fake files' ' Spam' etc.. and you will find masses of info on this. you also have a 'junk filter' in LWire which you can set up to block a lot of it.
Look at the stickies on fake files. BTW LWire once mastered is BRILLIANT !
http://www.gnutellaforums.com/downlo...h-results.html

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/222466-post13.html

Keep trying
N2:laugh_2:

It ****** me off when I search for a music video and the search turns up 10 results, each with exactly the same file size and name. Not only that, by file size I mean like 270Kb. A normal music video in mp4 format could no way be as little as 270Kb. I donno if it's spam or not, but it is some crap that I don't even want to try downloading.
Also annoys me when I put in a perfectly normal search and I get things like "Cute Girl Strips On Web Cam" under every artist which I search. I accidentaly click on it, 750Kb, I have it downloaded in 6 seconds, before I know it internet explorer has opened up 10 times over on a dating website.

One way of not downloading songs with bill clinton's voice, is by avoiding songs of size under 1,000 KB's such as 22.6, 114.1, 136.7 kbs. Every song I found under 1,000 kb's, I marked it as Junk, but that's not enough.

As a feature request add a filter under the audio search options, to exclude any word you want.

I also dont filter so i get more results so i can choose which file i want out of the (large) list it really wont hurt you to not filter if you just use your brain and common sense but sometimes even that isnt enough ive caught myself a few times basically if one file looks alot larger than the rest in the search... its probably not what you want....once you download it. PLAY IT! if it isnt what you wanted DELETE IT! but dont rely on that completely the item may have multiple viro-s or if you open it may completely destroy your computer if you arent smart just be careful when you download