Thread: Ban Morpheus again
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Old September 5th, 2004
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Originally posted by et voilą
Salut Trap_Jaw,
Isn't LW has remote control of some kind in 4.1.x betas for the network topology? Would that be able to include bad vendor such as corrupted GnucDNAs?

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Edit: or simply get LW users to get a security update once a week with newest virus (morpheus) definitions?
LimeWire has not added the capability to control the banned vendors remotely. I did submit a patch to enable LimeWire to do that but LimeWire seems to be very busy with getting ver. 4.2 out.

The problem remains: Morpheus could start faking BearShare connection headers or gtk-gnutella connection headers, we have no means of identifying securely. Morpheus will need some time to react to another ban, but to ban them securely, LimeWire will have to start to add some kind of secure handshake to identify other vendors.
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