virus disguised as "!!!band_name.asf" ?
 

i've seen many files that come up in my music searches that look like this (for example: !!!smashing_pumpkins.asf). i was insane enough to actually download one of these, and a realvideo file opened and only displayed the word "Warning" in fiery letters. i deleted the file but i'm really paranoid now and i've got my antivirus programs set to maximum protection. has anyone else come across these files and had a problem?? they seem to be everywhere so there has to be someone who knows. thanks in advance for your help.

if you do the search type 'audio' the .asf extension would NOT be returned. For safer and more effecient downloading choose the 'search type'

!!!file_name.mp3 AND !-!file_name.mp3
 

I use the "Audio" filter and get these type of files
sometimes when I do a search. Sometimes it is the only file that is found. These files are around 19K, so I know it's too small
to be useful. I thought it was XoloX sending a search query
through the network, because whatever I search for may return
a file of this type: !!!search_term.mp3. Lately I see a file of this
type: !-!search_term.mp3. I've been ignoring them, but I wonder who is watching....

Those are the wonderful porn/spam bots on gnutella

The filtering out of even more bogus files has been added to our feature request - it something we wanted to improve on for a while and already do a pretty good job of.