What is that popup box?
 

While online I sometimes get a popup box asking my username and
password. What is that? Why would something come up to ask those
when I am already logged in? I have not found any mention of it, anywhere.

Looks to me like a FTP sign in. Get it myself sometimes.

No clue why, though.

on an only slightly rel8d topic (sorry but i'm an idiot and curious), i sometimes get a box which asks 4 username and password details and which appears to b inviting me to chat, i fill in the dtails and click on OK and then ... nothing. what is this about?

Probably the same thing.

Still no clue why, though.

Pop up Boxes-JUST SAY NO!!
 

I still haven't heard what these boxes are, but I entered my user name & password in one then found a hidden .dat file in my downloads folder. It was named 'SThumb' and I know I didn't download it and its not a legitimate Limewire .dat file. I've jumped to the conclusion its a keystroke monitor, if anyone else can find it I'd suggest deleting it, I think its storing your keystrokes - passwords, credit card#, stuff like that. If anyone who knows .dat files could look into this??

LimeWire has a authorization feature to create private networks within gnutella. It's deactivated by default but somebody might have activated it in the source code. This will cause older LimeWire versions to display that box.

But it happens in 2.8.6., also.

I thought they fixed it but maybe it wasn't released yet.

whatever they r i've just had 15 of them! i've given up entering my details, doesn't seem 2 make any difference

pop-ups
 

My biggest complaint is that they slow down and sometimes freeze my computer, especially when I'm printing a document and one shows up, or when I'm running Limewire in the background while I play a video game. They won't let me click on any of the Limewire tabs until I get rid of them, either. What I'd like to know is how the heck to shut them off; has anybody figured that out yet?! I never had this problem before last Wednesday when my computer crashed and I had to reinstall everything from scratch.

And if somebody is using this program to steal my passwords, through tracking my keystrokes or whatever, then I don't care if it IS the only good file-sharing utility for Macs, I'll drop it in a heartbeat.

Re: Pop up Boxes-JUST SAY NO!!
 

its been answered multiple times in multiple places. i'm not sure why people seem to gloss over the answer.

i'll repeat exactly what trap_jaw said:

LimeWire has a authorization feature to create private networks within gnutella. It's deactivated by default but somebody might have activated it in the source code. This will cause older LimeWire versions to display that box.

and then later it said that the code was removed from newer versions, so it shouldn't pop up anymore in the next version.

i have absolutely no clue why you think a text file could be executed and become a keystroke monitor, nor do i have a clue what people would even enter into these popup boxes, because limewire has no username or passwords.

I didn't say 'text file', I said '.dat' file, which is a system file and executable - it was named 'SThumbs' & has anybody else found it? Its 'hidden' in Windows, so not visible unless you look.
You need a username & password to get into this forum.

>I didn't say 'text file', I said '.dat' file, which is a system file and executable - it was named 'SThumbs' & has anybody else found it? Its 'hidden' in Windows, so not visible unless you look.
You need a username & password to get into this forum.

.dat files are not executable. executables (for windows, atleast) are .exe, .bat, and .com, and on NT+ .cmd. .dat files are typically text files in some binary representation, useful for storing compressed data.

i didn't say these forums, either. i said LimeWire.

HAS ANYBODY SEEN STHUMB?
 

OK so i humbly beg forgiveness, a .dat is not an .exe, but it showed up in my downloads folder immediately after i had entered username-password in a pop-up box. I didn't download it, and Limewire has a few .dats in other folders, but this wasn't a Limewire file. When i accessed it, its properties were 'hidden' and 'system' and I got the warning "these files are used by the operating system and by various programs". Since i didn't download it, and it wasn't a signed windows file either, i said 'bugger that' and deleted it. HAS ANYBODY ELSE FOUND IT? This could be nothing but someone has activated the old private network and are using it to annoy others P2Pers, but i'm not taking any chances. When the boxes pop-up, hit 'Alt-F4' to shut it off.

i'm glad someone else finally found it! if you can find out about it, people with all different OS will be happy to hear it - its bedeviling EVERY system, win mac or linux. sux!!

when i saw it it had no text just scrambly non-text stuff, but didn't exist on my computer for very long.

good luck with it, i think its in good hands now.

thats a relief
 

thanks for clearing that up! & i havn't had any popups for the last few days either :)

Previous post erred
 

My computer crashed last time I was trying to post and somehow I posted a quote and nothing else. I was actually trying to say I get these boxes asking for usename and password frequently, BUT they are not from IP addresses I am downloading or uploading with, nor are they IP addresses on my connections tab. They seem to come up after I have done a search with extensive hits. My queston, is how do you access this feature? I can't imagine it is only availabe thru source code, as too many people seem to have it turned on.

Re: Pop up Boxes-JUST SAY NO!!
 

STraNge ........I've found these two files on my computer ( .mdt-flag and .mtd-stamp) since these pop up have started. Although I never gave out my user name or password, I did type in mumbo jumbo (ie: dfdjdsfj and akjd;flja) for user name and password, (just messin with the recipient). Norton found these two invisible files because they started with a "period" ".", which are not allowed in the beginning of Mac file names, cause they are used in the programming.

Nas
Mac G3 266 8.5
LW 2.73

Re: Re: Pop up Boxes-JUST SAY NO!!
 

Interesting... I thought I had seen files that started with "."

I check around and found a file ".com.zerog.registry.xml" and a folder ".limewire" both in preferences. I figured the "period" was just to keep them at the top of the list.

I've never seen a pop-up window, though. Just thought I'd mention it since I also use Mac, OS 9.1.

:cool:

Well, I am plagued by these pop-ups also, however I HAVE figured out an IP correlation for them.

When one of my connections drops and Limewire goes looking for a replacement, these popup boxes are showing up with the same IP addresses as some of the ultrapeers that Limewire is trying to connect to. If you stare at your connections tab you can catch it, although it's quick.

What I thought might be happening was that the IP I was trying to connect to was behind a solid firewall, requiring a login to connect or something similar, and those users hadn't disabled ultrapeer connections?

Either way, it still doesn't help me keep from crashing or rebuffing those requests automagically. :/

And yes, in UNIX files beginning with "." are hidden system files.

Re: Re: Re: Pop up Boxes-JUST SAY NO!!
 

Julie,

I checked and I too have that file and folder ...http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106589. This is all I could find regarding files beginning with periods. What version LW are you using?

Julie to you, or any other Mac users out there, have these invisible files on your HD or know what they are? I searched my HD for them using Norton Fast Find because a normal search wouldn't bring them up due to their being invisible. There are six invisible ones right on the HD itself they are mdt-stamp (space before the mdt) !mdt-stamp, *mdt-stamp, -mdt-stamp, _mdt-stamp, .mdt-stamp and six more in the folder I download to...they are mtd-flag (space before the mtd), !mtd-flag, *mtd-flag, _mtd-flag, -mtd-flag, .mtd-flag.



Thanks
Nas

Pop-up Box Answer
 

Just found this:

http://www.limewire.com/index.jsp/faqs

Q: Sometimes when I'm searching, I get a little annoying message asking for a name and password? Is this normal?

A: Either ignore those messages or upgrade to version 2.8.6. One of the other Gnutella client vendors is putting out a signal that older versions of LimeWire interpret as a login request.