What nonsense is this ?
Disable Firwalls ?
What kind of advice is this ? What - open up my machine to all sorts of hacker attacks, and by the way I HAVE been attacked in the recent past, so I'm not likely to do this !!
Here are my symptoms:
When I run Emule (047c), Windows XP (Media Centre version) Windows Crashes.(BSOD)
When I dont run EMule Windows does not crash.
QED, there is a problem with EMule047c.
Further information:
In my case, Several months ago, I notice the occasional crash when running EMule and Real Player at the same time. Problem did not occur when I used Windows Media Player so I assumed it to be a problem with Real Player. Not surprised really since RP is crap software anyway. Worth what you pay for it.
The crashes did not happen all of the time or very frequently, so I ignored it.
More recently, I upgraded Internet Explorer to version 7, and noted that whilst browsing, I'd get (more frequent) crashes.
A friend installed EMule Extreme, same problem. (and so I removed it, and went back to standard EMule).
I reinstalled EMule, deleted all downloads, problem still occurs.
Now, EMule crashes when it is the only program running, no IE, no Real Player
As I recall, the problem has been happening more frequently since I started to Add servers as 'friends' on the basis that they had allocated me a higher queue number, and I was hoping this would get me faster downloads. Seemed to work, but then it might have been the 8 MB upgrade too that improved download bandwidth.
I have an 8 MBit ADSL line.
I run Norton Internet Security, and the firewall in it is enabled. It needs to be; it protects my PC and saves me from having to disinfect and rebuild frequently. I have better things to do with my time.
This is making me think there may be two problems with EMule 0.47c
(a) it has trouble running with some other programs such as Real Player. Memory conflicts maybe ?
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Issue noted early in this forum with TCP Syn Flood attacks (or something like that).
Perhaps one or two doctored emule servers out there are set up to send out these attacks, and perhaps I've contributed by adding them as friends ? Theory: Adding someone as a freind gives them a trusted status and this opens up a vulnerability in EMule that can be exploited by a malicious person ?
© Emule team advice telling people to disable their firewalls cant be helping.
Anyway, I dont think that the developers of EMule can continue to disclaim any responsibility for crashes, and they need to investigate the problem properly and come up with a solution.
FWIW, Cheers,