I have done this for the files I tried downloading and found to be clean, but my searches are coming up with ~30 results marked as junk and maybe two or three as non-junk. In practice I am only going to download a single file from the list. I can mark that file as non-junk but the first problem with this is I am having to choose from the files marked as junk (which somewhat defeats the point of having a junk filter) and hope it was one of the incorrectly marked files and not a virus.

Secondly, if these files being incorrectly tagged is a result of spammers deliberately tagging them wrong, then I would imagine they would not just mark the file once. They'd do it a couple of hundred times from different computers/proxies meaning that their tagging of the file would greatly outweigh mine and it would remain marked as junk.

I don't yet have the technical ability to help alter the algorithm, maybe once I have started my uni course I'll come back and see what I can do. At the moment I am just asking if anyone else has noticed the problem and if it's being worked on.

Instead of downloading it and hopeing its not a virus right click and use bitiz tick if it cant find the file its probably best not to download that one. usually when i check i click view all and at least make sure none of them say dangerous/misleading

P.s. o ya i have 2-3 antivirus programs running in the back ground at all times and just today found 5 songs on my computer that had trojans and none of my antivirus programes pick them up automatically.

Are you manually scanning you limeware folder or are you just letting them run and catch viruses that they catch in the act?

Did you scan that song that was marked junk?

biohaze; if yo have several anti-virus programs running simultaneously, they're probably going to interfere with each other, and either generate false positives, or miss real viruses. "over protected" is just as bad as under protected in this case. pick your favorite to run all the time, and when you want to check with the others, disable the main and run each other one separately.


dijital; open the limewire options, under "filters", under "junk", and hit the big "forget training data" button. that will tell your client to forget all the junk setting and start over. i had to do it recently when i noticed over 90% of my searches being trashed.

also; (unless i am badly mistaken about the nature of limewire's junk filter) this has nothing to do with spammers marking files as junk; the junk filter is based entirely on what you select as junk/not-junk on your own system, and it tries to then sort your results based on previous examples you've given it.

in practical experience, after marking too many things as junk it just seems to lose focus and start killing everything.

added; if i AM mistaken about how the junk filter works, and it really does affect network rating, someone let me know about it, ok?