kilimanjaro Posted December 2, 2004 Report Share Posted December 2, 2004 I am using gnutella to download files and when I start a new search I get stuff like: Band_compressed.exe Band_compressed.zip Band selfextracting.exe Band installer.exe and many variations on this theme. What are these? They make me very suspicious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 There are "servers" on the network that answer every query they see with a fake match , in an attempt to discourauge people from using the gnutella by providing them with garbage. I suppose a malicious server could also be spreading viruses in the same way although I don't think they're viruses. I don't know exactly what the files contain because I never downlaoded one, may they're just a big "don't do that" sound track, or an excerpt from US copyright law . You will probably notice that all the hits come from the same IP address, and I think they're generally exactly the same size too. In gtk-gnutella you can filter that particular host out, I assume most other clients have a similar mechanism. It does tend to clog the result window otherwise. If you do download one of those files, post back here to let us know what it contained (I'd do a virus check and handle the file as dangerous to be on the safe side). It may just contains total garbage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 I believe those things are just blank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 4, 2004 Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 As is said above, there are servers which provide fake matches to whatever you put into the box. It's happened to me, they're often promos for sites or porn or something, virii too.. take a look at the p2p client, nicotine, its on the soulseek network which my friend uses and he says its really good. Or just use bittorrent iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted December 4, 2004 Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 soulseek sucks. I had nicotine...used it once...the server is bad, and nicotine is even worse than the official client...ugh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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