Shareaza.com down
 

All shareaza.com related services went down a few weeks ago. The website was been set up for now at shareaza.sourceforge.net. The wiki has been set up read only at shareaza.sourceforge.net/wiki/. There is no schedule at this time for when the forums will be brought back up. Temporary forums have been set up on SF.


New webadress: Shareaza - Bringing P2P Together

Of course, you can get very fast help at the IRC channel ;) On irc://irc.p2pchat.net/Shareaza

Neglacio, The Link you put up won't open. :D

that's because you don't have an IRC client installed Remoc...

OK My Bad. I'll check in to that. Not up on IRC and several other things as you very well know. LOL. Still learning and taking this all in.

Hi guys (wave, smile)!
I noticed that Shareaza.com is still down... but this forum isn't so I'm here. I have a question:
I ran a search yesterday for some software. One peer on the network (85.88.2.219) took the search string and stuck it into 50 file names which my Shareaza then listed. So I tried it with "Any file type"... Same thing. Then I tried a random string like "a;dkga'igh" and that listed me 50 files, with cracks and with recognizable hacker names like DEViANCE.

So is this new? Is it the end of P2P? Is everyone buying software now or what?

I bet if you download and install PeerGuardian2 that spammer will be blocked from getting connected to you....

Thanks Peerless, I'll try it. I'll post back on how it goes.:)

K, I've got PeerGuardian 2 installed but I've got a spammer whose not on the list that PG2 downloads for itself. Is it possible to add an IP address to the list, I can't see how that's done?

Sure appreciate your help, btw.

you could go to the trouble of creating a new list in pg2, but I find it easier to just add an IP like that to my firewall blocklist

Windows (XP) firewall doesn't let you do that, it doesn't seem to support an IP block-list, unfortunately, but at least I've got the general idea now... and thanks!

I read your insurance story there. Now they're bad guys... and of course it's a total rip, but that bucket... and the gangrene... ouch! Mightn't that be a bit harsh even for an insurance adjuster? :)

Shareaza has got something nice :) Security filters.
I recommend the one from the Security Centre: Shareaza Security Centre
Unzip the downloaded file and read the README ;)

you would have had to have been there...that guy deserves it....I mean really, trying to tell me that maybe the leak was through the limestone on the outside of the house....he'll be very lucky if I never see him again sometime in life:blink:

Ahh! That does the trick! X Ray Security Filter Version 7.5. Looks great and allows you to add individual IP's easily.

Good work Neglacio! Thanks guys. And don't forget: Check the small print on those insurance policies!

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Hope I posting this correctly. I've been using Shareaza for a number of years with good results but in the past while problems have occured with the full completion of downloads (like stuck at 99.7%). Can't figure it out so I need help.

So hello to everyone in these forums.

Well, that's a thing happening with a lot of filesharing apps (supporting HTTP transferring networks).

You can fix it by rightclicking the download and pressing pauze, and after that, restart.

Further, on PeerGuardian2: It starts the Windows server service on your computer (which I discovered because a hidden catalog.wci (that's a Windows server indexing service database file - apparently) suddenly appeared in the System Volume Information folder and made my regular drive ghosting task fail, otherwise I wouldn't have known). Now a program that's supposed to be protecting my computer is turning it into a server? What's going on here? Anyone got any suggestions?

Is this PeerGuardian on the level or what?

On the plus side, it is brilliant at blocking outgoing IP calls, from whatever apps you have on your system. It has already blocked outgoing IP calls from two trojans that I had no idea were 'contacting home' from my computer. One is actually a pirated screen capture tool (HyperSxxp). Yeah, some applications downloads on P2P are high-class trojans that are very difficult to spot.

@P2D2: That link (Shareaza Security Centre), iwas wondering what you know of that site?... because they have these two Tweak files also that seemed interesting,

Shareaza Quick Guide 2.3: Quick Guide to Shareaza (RAR)
This is a .rar file, that contains instructions on how to set-up shareaza

Shareaza Settings Guide: Settings Guide for Shareaza (RAR)
This is a .rar file that contains an extensive amount of info on how to use shareaza's advanced settings

and for some reason i expected these two ShareAza help files to be readable, but they turned out to be compressed .exe files(!!!) - I wonder why? or what this site is trying to do by getting us to execute "FAQ" documents...?

hmmmmmm....just where exactly did you get your copy of PG2?

Interesting, Cor-e. I just scanned through their file Shareaza Quick Guide 2.3.exe (with UltraEdit-32) and there's so much (apparently - least it looks like) program code in it that I don't feel much inclined to run it to find out wtf it is! (And you are an ex-KaZaA user, are you not? - I'm guessing from the way you capitalized ShareAza :))

@Peerless: I got it direct from Phoenix Labs (link), billed as: "Home of the original PeerGuardian 2".

Those .exe's are actually little flash files. They're without viruses or other badware, and if you wish, you can use a spyware/virus scan on it ;)

well p2d2 I don't know what to say...my version of PG2 does nothing like what you describe, there is no catalog.wci on my machine, and the only problems I've ever had with PG2 are when I am for all intensive purposes being DDOS'd by Macrovision when using BearShare...I guess PG can't handle the abuse and will occasionally freak out and I have to use the Recover PeerGuardian option to kill the driver and restart the app...other than that it has done its job marvelously.....

And suppose the first lines of that Flash code are an encrypted registry edit, Neglacio, which decrypts and executes when you click the file. Would you be able to see that? And would a virus scanner be able to detect that?

P2D2: First of all, I guess you're yet contaminated with spyware and others.
I suggest you a check with Hitman Pro: Hitman Pro | Alles-in-1 oplossing tegen spyware - Home
Next to that, I'm responsible for the content of the .exe's since the creator of the Security Centre is a good friend of me ;)

Yes, Peerless, it seems more probable that the Server service is actually started by Shareaza, because it is required for file sharing. But the big server index, catalog.wci, is definitely the work of PG2.

You can't see it because it is hidden in the (normally) unreadable System Volume Information file. To access that file you have to change the access permissions (Start > Run > cmd > change to root directory of drive you want to access file on. Then cacls "system volume information" /t /g "Your user name":f )

That permanently (/t) grants you (/g "username") full access (:f) by editing the Access Control List (cACLs) for that file. Then you can look inside your SVI folder and delete stuff - but be careful because that's your system restore file (if you are still using System Restore).

@Neglacio, perhaps you could gently pass your friend at the Shareaza Security Centre the feedback that whilst X-Ray Filter looks like it could be useful... it is pretty difficult to trust or evaluate when he doesn't provide any documentation.

Shareaza does NOT start the server service...
I asked the devs, and looked in the code itself...

That's interesting. If Shareaza doesn't need it then, I'm going to disable that service. And since Shareaza didn't turn it on, it must have been PG2.

(Later) It's off... and Shareaza's still happy, so that's a step forward.

p2d2 your command line command is different that the one given at M$...they detail the following : cacls "driveletter:\System Volume Information" /E /G username:F

either way, there is no such file on my machine...in fact my system volume folder is for all basic purposes empty (probably because I don't use system restore)...

soooo...from my viewpoint PG2 has nothing to do with that...UNLESS there has been some sort of add on slipped in since I got my version...now note the fact that I got the original release and PG2 when active does show no updates available...

I like that for Microsoft - M$ :)
In CACLS, switch tee (/t) is a permanent change; switch e (/e) is a session edit that reverts when you reboot, that's all.

Checking Phoenix Labs website just now, I notice that PeerGuardian2 is open source, so I guess that answers almost all the questions. The only one it leaves is to verify that the compiled source code and the download are the same file. How easy is that going to be to do?

Patience often helps. Keep searching for your sources. It looks like it's a rare few parts of the file that are being shared. ;) Eventually you will be online at same time someone else does who has those parts & has free upload slot just for you. :)

On the completely frustrating 99.9% donwload-that-won't-complete, it is I believe the price you have to pay for the programming decision to allow uploads from partially downloaded files. If the original of a large file goes off line before anyone has a complete copy of it, several thousand people may then be downloading from several thousand incomplete - and never to be completed - copies of the file.

which is another technique of the paid henchmen of the MAFIAA

Abso-defina-lutely... and obviously so! You would think that Shareaza programmers might have foreseen that - or at least rectified it - wouldn't you? :wasntme:

(Later) K, I'm off to the PhoenixLabs forum, see what can be found out. Back in a while.

LOL
This is funny :) I guess none of you ever had a lesson in networking?
Anyway, I'll make it short ;)
With HTTP (the transfer protocol used to watch a webpage, but also for most filesharing networks) you don't have so-called Endgame. Endgame means that if you have 0.01% 'missing', you can ask that 0.01% from another source.
But HTTP cannot do it.
HTTP assigned that 0.01% to a specific source, but maybe it got offline, or it's using it upload for something else, anyway, it can't ask another source for that 0.01%, unless you delete/forget/disconnect from that specific source, so another source can give the remaining part to you.
Shareaza doesn't do this auto, because it's a very aggressive way to do, and will give faithful uploaders a lot of pressure on their pc.

I guess you haven't read the articles which point to the fact that this is a known technique of anti-p2p groups....doesn't matter if its BT, DC, or gnutella....I'm not saying this is always the case, but it is sometimes....

Yeah, I know, but that doesn't mean nobody ELSE has got that 0.01% ;)
Then my Endgame thingy hops in :p

The endgame tie-in to a particular source only lasts for that session, until you close Shareaza. When you restart, I understand that Shareaza searches for new sources. Anyone who has experienced this problem knows well that we are referring to the 99.9% file that you finally have to delete after waiting for days or weeks to complete. And that behavior can hardly be explained by the single-session endgame limitation. So why the mockery, Neglacio?

(Later) OK, we're sorted! The server invasion came from somewhere else... it had nothing at all to do with PeerGuardian2. PeerGuardian2 is clean. Thanks for everybody's help and everything. :)

POSTSCRIPT
Looking at the documentation for PeerGuardian2, though, one has to wonder how such a bucket-with-holes as a continually out-of-date list of 700 million IP's can possibly be an effective remedy for the systematic attacks against P2P, which some contributors on this forum are even anxious to deny. (I wonder why???)

Maybe its time to be looking for another P2P client. Phex! Come here Phex! Where are you boy? Lets see if you can bring us something when you're told to to "Go fetch".