The ones that seem to have the viruses worms from what Ive come across are mostly the T3 or the T1s and higher connections thats why I try to stick to fellow cable users for downloads. I try to filter those out and I also avoid modem users as they can have zip files with viruses in em too. those higher up connections out instead of blockign em. im not a geek so I dont want to spend too much time fussing with my settings.

Thanks to all of you. I see the same starting ISP# (66,67,24 and 10) - when I "mouse hover" over suspicious (or proven downright bad) files . . . so I use the following host filters (and YES, they are mainly T1/T3s!):

10.*.*.*
24.*.*.*
66.*.*.*
67.*.*.*

This is becuase SO MANY bad files (dozens or hundreds of results) always point to some variation of above ISPs. Those 4 filters seem to cut out a lot, as well as keywords:

.exe
AWESOME
PLEASE SHARE

I hadn't thought of the innocent being infected and thereby killing potential "good sources" -- I'll try and start "bypassing" rather than willy-nilly blocking of more and more hosts.

Thanks - VERY much appreciated /p

(10,24,66, 67).*.*.* = all .US broadband.



theres more to gain from a person offering infected programs on peer to peer than someone offering something clean for free.

INTERESTING! You know, I read that 5 times and I'm still not quite sure I understand it. Anyway, I'd have thought it was some "far away place full of nasties."

Shows you how little I know - in some ways I guess it is! At least . . . with regard to the FREAKS who didn't get any dates in High School . . . who now enjoy screwing up people's computers due to some warped sense of accomplishment. These little nasties don't flash an ad or put a casino button on the screen or your folders. They outright shut the machine down with a blue screen. Some are headed off by your A/V and others just shut down the PC my hovering the mouse over them or right clicking to delete them. If anyone has had this, PM/email me. I have some secret weapons to eliminate them - but would rather not share them here in case the "nasties" are reading.

Thanks, banmicrosofttoo -

Just had a thought - wouldn't it be great if the Limewire Filtering option included the ability to screen/filter by file size?!

Hope the developers read this - simple size blocking would eliminate the need to erhaps falsely block entire hosts or groups of hosts. Above file sizes blocked, and future ones users find to be "nasty" -- otherwise allowing files as usual!

the 10.*.*.* ip allocation space is reserved for private use and is not routable. my lan network actually uses it

I dont think any P2P app can filterout the 'size' of a file, only the users can and most users are lazy and never cleanout their junk files and or just love to leave the viruses in so they can zap a few newbies that dont know any better.

It can... and may be this will be a feature of LW...... hope so.....

would like to see how???? If it was that simple then Gnutella would be spared of the crap files that people like to leave in their folders. the only way would to to hide it as far as I can see and somehow I cant imagine a P2P going through all that trouble.

Well, color me "dumb," but if you can filter as part of the file TEXT description "please share," or ".exe," couldn't you also filter "399.5" or "865?"

I guess the size is not PART of the description or "title," at least as it stands now - but if you can PREVIEW a file before it's even finished, there should be some "lookahead" mechanism that could "lookahead and check size?"

Here's hoping!