Yes, if we could read all the posts over the last 5 years we might find the answer to our question. These posts are from 2005-2007, and unfortunately, still relevant. We discover polluted search results when we do a search and try to download. Although these "Warning" and "Fake files" posts do cover the issue in a sense, it's a lot of reading for the casual user who just wants to download a song. I'm advocating for useability, and maybe some thread updates and crosslinking.

The hostiles.txt solution seems like a good start (of course I'm on LW4.12 and only works on LW4.13+). Likewise, if you look up the bitprint at bitzi.com some of them are reported, but many are not.

Looking at the search problem more closely, it appears (as noted elsewhere) as though the 'industry' has installed malicious server software to help spread these trojans and fake files. If you want a demo, just search for a non-existant title or fragment thereof and see how many hits you get.

New plan: Do a fake search, ie search for a totally fake title, then select all results as junk. Do this several times so the filter learns. And, voila, not so many bad results in real searches.
Here is my initial results for 'retarded records inc' (826? are you kidding?):




Most of these variants will be found in normal searchs, e.g. (256k quality), (hot new track), (remix), the .au and .snd extensions. The mp3s which show promise do not have a bit rate or length (length column not enabled on screenshot), and no artist, etc.

What this probably shows is that these malicious servers, or perhaps even your machine if infected, are constructing dynamic libraries built from your search terms, on the fly, and populating them with renamed trojans, virii, fake files and miscellaneous hacks.

True, this problem isn't going away. But, it may be managable.

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