Everyone is talking about the good and bad features of Bearshare and LimeWire and how they affect the Gnutella network.

But, right now there is a new threat being posed to the health of Gnutella....... MorpheusOS! It is already affecting downloads from other clients because it quickly replaces other client ultrapeers with its own.

Ahh - I can see the confusion.

This is an illusion caused by the large number of Morpheus users that migrated to Gnutella.

They don't "replace" other clients ultrapeers with their own, there's just a lot of them.

So far, none or few of the Ultrapeer election/promotion (?) schemes that i've had described to me account for the large number of ultrapeers already on the gnutella network.

Correct me if i'm wrong but, if there were already a large number of (morpheus) ultrapeers on the gnutella network, ... wouldn't that decrease the number of clients that will become ultrapeers? I was under the impression that all clients should prefer being a "leaf", unless they encounter very few Ultrapeers.

I see what you mean.

I think you're right, Morpheus screwed it up for everyone.

It is understanding that the issue with Morpheus resides within the default configuration as it is installed resulting in folks becoming uptrapeers that either do not have the resources or the configuration is improper in some way -- resulting in the net being flooded with these improperly performing Uptrapeers.

I have a couple of computers that my teenagers use and of course both are Gnutella users. Investigating a seriouse performance issue with one of the machines yesterday. ADAWARE tells me that CYDOOR is all over both of these machines. I used ADAWARE to remove this but it returned. The PC runs limewire and I believe from these forums that is where cydoor was picked up.

My question is what Gnutella client can I run on these PCs that will behave in a manner that does not include spy-ware or other unknown-ware on my PC? In the past I swapped from BearShare to LimeWire due to simular actions.

Thanks

BearShare can be installed without additional bundled advertising products (called Adware).

Simply uncheck the boxes at the time of installation - anyone who tells you otherwise is probably named Morgwen.

Vinnie tell the truth... I never said that it isn´t optional, I said its SPYWARE you call it ad-aware, but I think it doesn´t matter what I say you hate me because I SAY WHAT THINK...

Morgwen