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Old November 25th, 2007
Novicius
 
Join Date: November 25th, 2007
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Default Phony Files

To those who have been griping about phony files downloading, I would like to toss out a couple of tips. First, it doesn't matter what title you are searching for, so don't feel paranoid. You can type in a random string and get numerous hits on that string. Any file that shows a bit rate of 768 in the grey properties popup is almost certainly garbage. Same for any file that shows "Title: not related" in that popup. Titles such as Rare Recording, Eighties classic, Wicked Remix, Totally Hip Track, Rare Recording, or a form like 01 Track 7 are also junk.
If you right click on a file, select Mark As, and then Junk, when a file is downloaded from this source in the future it will have a trash can icon with it. There is also a right click function called Block Host. It will supposedly block files from that IP address, but I'm not sure yet how well that works. And there probably are a lot of pc's out there spreading the stuff. So that might be an exercise in futility.
I've noticed that this kind of crap has been steadily increasing over the past year or so. I'm afraid that over time this network will be overwhelmed by these jerks.
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