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Riot Nrrrd™

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SPAM/viruses (presumed) in Search results?
« on: May 11, 2010, 02:56:37 AM »
I just installed aMule 2.2.6 for Mac OS X and am really happy that it works - I had no luck with aMule 2.2.2.

Now that it's working for me I just noticed something.

If I do a Global search, it doesn't matter what I enter for the string, I'm guaranteed to get back at least ~ 300 or more results back, all of which appears to be SPAM (or, presumably, quite possibly Virus/Trojan-laden crap).

For example, a search on "76ad5a4d6ratdgad76ta76" (just me typing randomly) returned 296 hits!

All of them are like

• Small big 76ad5a4d6ratdgad76ta76 .exe | Size: 8.79 MB | Sources: 5838 (5838) [7] | Type: Programs | FileID: 5C3D3B1CB469C0913E1195F6FF4CA54F
• Live show 76ad5a4d6ratdgad76ta76 .zip | Size: 8.73 MB | Sources: 3770 (3770) [13] | Type: Archives | FileID: 3AD345CE33875973962E6158A1A46A05
• Full free version 76ad5a4d6ratdgad76ta76 .exe [... " " ...]

... I'm sure you get the idea.

Obviously I can sort by Size when doing a 'real' Search to find what I'm looking for, but it's incredibly annoying to get all this SPAM crap with every search.

Any way to filter this crap out???

« Last Edit: May 11, 2010, 03:01:36 AM by Riot Nrrrd™ »
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Re: SPAM/viruses (presumed) in Search results?
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2010, 06:10:29 AM »
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Re: SPAM/viruses (presumed) in Search results?
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2010, 07:33:09 AM »
Your server list is out-dated and contains fake servers.
Please follow the link Kry posted. Read the topic on how to get a clean server list and connect to one of the few available ED2K servers.
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Riot Nrrrd™

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Re: SPAM/viruses (presumed) in Search results?
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2010, 04:24:51 AM »
Sorry it took so long to reply - thanks to both of you for the tip!  Since I wasn't able to get aMule working until 2.2.6 I am obviously a nOOb  ;D
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