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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: n00by on September 05, 2007, 10:20:29 PM

Title: Weird search results [virus?]
Post by: n00by on September 05, 2007, 10:20:29 PM

Is this because of malicious nodes, or is the client or computer infected?


"It all started a few months ago when I used eMule to search for some document. As always, I launched the program, connected to a network and typed document name into the search field. Usually, search results appear immediately and the list of matches continues growing until the search is finally over (a progress bar indicates it). But that wasn’t the case. The search was almost over, but the list of Search Results was still empty. That could only mean that there were no such documents in the entire file sharing network.

Well, you cannot find just everything in file sharing network”, I thought. But just then a few results appeared. I managed to find so needed and rare file! But then I took a closer look at the results, and I wasn’t so happy anymore. The filename was a complete copy of my search keywords, and the file itself had a different extension. It wasn’t a document, but an executable. Of course, I didn’t download it."

http://www.2-spyware.com/news/post256.html

Title: Re: Weird search results [virus?]
Post by: wuischke on September 05, 2007, 10:27:40 PM

Hi,

Please read http://www.amule.org/wiki/index.php/Fake_servers

Title: Re: Weird search results [virus?]
Post by: n00by on September 05, 2007, 10:44:45 PM

"Known good servers (Donkey Server No1-6)"

Hmm, this actually happened on Donkey Server 2 (62.241.53.16:4242)

But thanks for the URL, now I know what it's all about :-)

Title: Re: Weird search results [virus?]
Post by: wuischke on September 05, 2007, 11:05:17 PM

You are using global search, which will query all servers in your server list.

Title: Re: Weird search results [virus?]
Post by: n00by on September 05, 2007, 11:43:06 PM

Aaah, that explains it.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Weird search results [virus?]
Post by: skolnick on September 07, 2007, 04:37:15 AM

Delete all the servers except the 6 donkeyservers and you will be just fine. Or search kad.

Regards.