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Posted by Morton Davis on 06/30/06 13:08
"Anon" <nepotism+despotism@whitehouse.gov> wrote in message
news:aradnc78FJQxLjnZnZ2dnUVZ_tadnZ2d@giganews.com...
> Penelope Pitstop wrote:
>
> > Anon <nepotism+despotism@whitehouse.gov> wrote:
> >> I'm happily running winmx v3.31 by using the(?) additional
> >> hosts file entries.
> >>
> >> The other day my winmx displayed "CLICK FOR URGENT UPDATE!!!"
> >> in the line below the title bar (where, for months, it'd only
> >> been saying "Please be Patient!!!").
> >>
> >> I read the articles here, and the article at
> >> http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=1214 (about dealing
> >> with "false files"). The article left me scratching my
> >> head... (Was I supposed to know what "smokeblower" is?
> >> Without "the patch" will I [just still] see "false files"?)
> >>
> >> Since I had no concerns about "false files", I never felt
> >> the need for any "patch", and so I am naturally concerned
> >> about the possibility that the (executable) "cure" could
> >> be worse than the "disease", at least as far as the health
> >> and security of my system is concerned.
> >>
> >> Can someone here please explain what, if anything, I need
> >> to do to my installation (and why) if I wish to remain a
> >> participant in the winmx file-sharing community? (It seems
> >> as if fewer people are finding/offloading my files lately.)
>
> > Since the hosts file provides servers to connect to the network and
> > those do change occasionally, it is important to update your hosts file
> > when a new one becomes available.
> >
> > If you connect as a primary, you *do* need to block the "bad" IP ranges
> > since you host other users connections and process search results for
> > yourself and those other users connected to you.
> >
> > However, if you connect to as a secondary, there's no need to block
> > those bad IP's, IMHO. It would not be effective except if you connected
> > to a faker directly by attempting to download a fake file (which would
> > probably time out anyway whether you blocked or not).
> >
> > A primary connects directly to the network and a secondary connects to a
> > primary host. If, as a secondary, you connect to a primary who *does
> > not* block those IP's, you will get fakes in your search results
> > (depending on your search criteria and if the files you are after are
> > currently being "faked" by the bad guys). If, as a secondary, you
> > connect to a primary who *does* block those IP's, you should not get
> > fakes in your search results. Although, not *every* faker can be
> > blocked - only those major bad guys who are on the blocklist are caught.
> >
> > Vladd's website suggests that you block those bad IP ranges with PG Lite
> > with the BlockTard list (though *not* for Windows 95/98/ME). Get it
> > here - http://www.blocktards.com/p2p.html
>
> Thanks much. I'd have saved you some typing if I'd remembered
> to say I connect as a secondary, sorry (my sharing box is old and
> of far less than the minimum 'requirements' to run winmx at all,
> though it keeps up OK).
>
> Is there a concensus 'best' (place to get a fresh) hosts file?
>
>
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